Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.” Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in 1991, wrote the comments in an opinion piece for Time magazine. “More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe,” the […]
Category: Domestic
Trump’s Anti-Immigration Order Shaped By Benefits To His Private Businesses
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that puts a freeze on immigration from seven countries: Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Sudan. Even as President Trump takes steps to restrict visitors from some majority-Muslim countries, he and his family continue to do business in some of the others. Ethics experts question […]
Hillary Received 800000 Votes From Non-Citizens
Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen […]
Trump To Reduce Sanctions On Russia?
U.S. sanctions against Russia will be “under consideration” when President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold their first official conversation on Saturday, according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Asked whether sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for Russian interference in the U.S. election and intervention in the Ukraine would be on the […]
Trump To Ramp Up War On ISIS
President Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis speak at the Inauguration Day parade on Jan. 20. Trump heads to the Pentagon on Friday and is expected to speak with Mattis and the military brass about his campaign pledge for a stepped-up war against the Islamic State. Donald Trump paid his first presidential visit to the […]
Trump To Hire 5000 More Border Agents
President Trump called for the hiring of 5,000 border officers and tripling the size of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a brief address Wednesday at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump made the announcement in conjunction with the signing of two executive orders — one of which calls for the building of a border […]
Trump Budget Nominee Supports Cutting Medicare, Social Security
President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s budget director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney , R-S.C., defended Tuesday his support of cuts to popular entitlement programs that Trump vowed to keep intact and emphasized that he would bring a “fact-based approach” to the role. In appearances before the Senate budget and homeland security committees, Mulvaney acknowledged […]
Trump Threatens Chicago With Martial Law
On Tuesday night, President Trump threatened to intervene in Chicago’s law enforcement, citing the number of shootings and murders there in 2016 and 2017. It wasn’t clear what type of intervention the president was referring to in a tweet he sent out Tuesday evening saying he “will send in the Feds!” if Chicago “doesn’t fix […]
Hillary, The Next Mayor Of New York City?
Hillary Clinton would easily dethrone vulnerable Bill de Blasio and cruise to victory as the next mayor of New York City — if she wants the job — political insiders told the Herald yesterday. “Were she to run, de Blasio’s best move would be to put in his retirement papers,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran […]
Trump To Order Wall With Mexico; Limit Immigrants From Middle East
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will begin rolling out executive actions on immigration Wednesday, beginning with steps to build his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to two administration officials. He’s also expected to target so-called sanctuary cities and is reviewing proposals that would restrict the flow of refugees to the United States. The […]
Trump Says 3-5 Million Votes Illegally Cast
Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes, according to people familiar with the meeting. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud caused him […]
Anti-Trump Protesters Denied Border Crossing
Multiple people attempting to legally enter the U.S. to either attend Donald Trump’s inauguration or the Women’s March on Washington say they were denied entry at Canada’s U.S. border, with some claiming it was over their political beliefs. “The first thing he asked us point-blank is, ‘Are you anti- or pro-Trump?’” Joseph Decunha, a physics student […]