WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twelve U.S. Republican Senators on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to submit the deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress for passage by year-end, before Democrats assume control of the House of Representatives. “We are concerned that if the administration waits until next year to send to Congress […]
Her naked body was found on Monday in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, and is believed to have drifted for two days. A family of four were tracked on CCTV travelling to the Jack Evans Boat Harbour in New South Wales on Saturday, according to the Australian Associated Press (AAP). It is alleged this is where the […]
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, ruling that it “unequivocally” violates women’s constitutional rights. The law, considered one of the most restrictive in the country, was passed in March. It had already been put on hold by U.S. District Judge Carlton […]
JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – A white Republican senator’s casual reference to a “public hanging” has inflamed a special election runoff in Mississippi, fueling Democratic hopes of an upset in a conservative state with an ugly history of racist violence. The U.S. Senate race between appointed Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy, a black […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump has long viewed foreign policy as a series of business deals, stripped of values and idealism. But his 633-word statement on Tuesday about the brutal killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi showed the extent to which he believes that raw, mercantilist calculations should guide the United States’ decisions about the […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants are operating around the world today as on Sept. 11, 2001, despite nearly two decades of American-led campaigns to combat Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, a new independent study concludes. That amounts to as many as 230,000 Salafi jihadist fighters in nearly 70 countries, […]
WASHINGTON — The probability that American border guards will face violence at the southwestern border is “minimal,” an internal Homeland Security Department document has concluded, undercutting a Trump administration proposal to protect the security officials from migrant attacks by pairing them with military troops. The border intelligence analysis contrasts with statements by the department and […]
The White House has issued new rules for journalists covering official press conferences following the reinstatement of CNN’s Jim Acosta’s hard press pass, but White House correspondents are refusing to follow them. According to the rules, journalists are only allowed to ask one question before yielding the floor to another journalist, and follow-up questions will only […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump laid out for the special counsel his defense in the investigation into possible ties between his associates and Russia’s election interference, the president’s lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday. The details of Mr. Trump’s responses were not immediately clear, but his lawyers said that now that he had handed over […]
A rooftop smudging ceremony where herbs were burned and prayers said served as a proxy for swearing in as the oral traditional evidence gathering part of a National Energy Board reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project began Tuesday. Related NEB to hear traditional Indigenous evidence in Trans Mountain pipeline review Natural resources minister […]