President Donald Trump on Monday named Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser, a week after Michael Flynn resigned from the post. During a news conference at his Florida resort, Trump said that McMaster was “highly respected by everybody in the military” and is “a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience.” […]
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Trump “Dirty Rotten Traitor” Comments May Have Affected Bergdahl’s Due Process
A military judge called President Donald Trump’s scathing campaign-trail criticism of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “disturbing” on Monday and questioned whether it would make the public think the soldier can’t get a fair trial for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009. During a pretrial hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, defense attorneys played […]
US Visitor Have To Give Passwords To Their Social Media Accounts
People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country’s top domestic security chief said. “We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?” he told the House Homeland […]
Deporting Immigrants Prevents Crime Says Trump Administration
White House policy director Stephen Miller on Sunday expanded the goals of President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration executive order, saying it would “prevent crime before it happens” by deporting undocumented immigrants deemed to “pose a threat to public safety.” The statement was reminiscent of the plot of “Minority Report,” a film set in a dystopian future […]
Pence Breaks Tie With Vote To Confirm DeVos
Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary ― the first time a vice president’s tie-breaking vote has been used for a Cabinet confirmation. Betsy DeVos garnered a 50-50 tie from senators, with all 48 Democrats in the chamber and two Republicans voting against her. The vote […]
Borders Now Re-Opened To 60,000 Previously Banned Immigrants
America began allowing foreigners from seven predominantly Muslim nations into its borders Saturday after the government stopped enforcing President Donald Trump’s travel ban at airports — setting up a contentious fight with the White House over the immigration order. The Department of Homeland Security said it will no longer force airlines to block those foreigners […]
Washington State Sues To Halt Trump’s Immigration Ban
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The state of Washington will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from some Muslim-majority states in federal court, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on Monday. Washington will be the first state to take on the executive order that went into effect on Friday, heightening the legal stakes surrounding […]
Mikhail Gorbachev Says World Is Preparing For War
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 […]
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 […]
Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Order
WASHINGTON ― On Monday, surrounded by other white men, President Donald Trump signed an anti-abortion executive order that has far-reaching consequences for women’s reproductive health access worldwide. Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. It prohibits giving U.S. funding […]
SNL Airs Musical Tribute To Obama
On the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, “Saturday Night Live” bid farewell to Barack Obama with a touching musical number. Cecily Strong kicked off the performance, singing “To Sir, With Love” as she stood in front of a large photo of Obama. Fellow cast member Sasheer Zamata joined in for the second half of […]
Flags Burn Across The Country
Peaceful protests across the country Friday were partially undermined by flares of violence and property damage in Washington, D.C., where two officers were injured and at least 95 people were arrested. Throughout the day in different parts of the capital, police used pepper spray, batons and other crowd-control devices to disperse protesters. Some people vandalized […]