Carrier, a heating and air-conditioning system manufacturer has announced the layoff of 215 employees in its plant in Indianapolis. The company’s jobs numbers were thrust into the spotlight after President Trump visited the plan in 2015. The company had announced …
Continue ReadingMany are focusing on inflammatory comments made by the president in a White House meeting on immigration on Thursday but perhaps the more consequential development is the failure of a bipartisan group of senators to get White House buy-in on …
Continue ReadingWhite House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, gave President Trump a clean bill of health after his first physical exam as president on Friday. “The president’s exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went exceptionally well. The president is in …
Continue ReadingIran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement today about the nuclear deal it has with the US and several other world powers, saying it will not make any changes to the accord. Iran “will not accept any change in the …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump will extend the Iran nuclear deal for at least several more months, keeping the landmark 2015 pact alive for now. Under the terms of the deal, the U.S. president must notify Congress every 90 days as to whether …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump has cancelled a trip to Great Britain to open a new American Embassy there citing a bad deal made for the new embassy building by the Obama administration. The president and British Prime Minister Theresa May were involved …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump denied the comments attributed to him last night where he called Latin American and African countries “shitholes.” The president wrote in an early morning tweet that that was not the language used by him in an immigration meeting …
Continue ReadingA bipartisan group of six senators have agreed on a framework for an immigration deal that solves the status of DREAMers, as well as addresses President Trump’s demand of funding for a border wall. The lawmakers rushed to the White …
Continue ReadingThe president decried immigration from certain countries in an oval office meeting today on immigration, when someone suggested restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan deal on comprehensive immigration reform.
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Continue ReadingThe House of Representatives is set to vote on renewal of the controversial 702 section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act. That section is what authorizes the U.S. intelligence community to collect conversations of non-U.S. citizens on foreign …
Continue ReadingThe FBI released two documents today relating to the firing of former director James Comey. The first was an email from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the FBI informing them that the decision had been made. The second was …
Continue ReadingConservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeted yesterday that nothing Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff has said about President Trump has hurt him as much the DACA lovefest happening right now. Coulter was referring to a meeting taking place at …
Continue ReadingRepresentative Ed Royce of California, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, announced his retirement on Monday. Royce’s announcement had brought the number of Republicans who are either leaving the House or seeking office elsewhere, to 30.
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Continue ReadingSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in commended President Trump for the beginning of talks between North and South Korea, today. “I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks, I want to show my gratitude. It …
Continue ReadingA judge in California has placed a nationwide injunction on the ending of the DACA program, mandating that it stay in place for now. The judge, William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco, wrote that the Trump …
Continue ReadingSteve Bannon, former Trump campaign manager and White House strategist, is leaving Breitbart.com, the conservative news site he helped turn into a news powerhouse. Bannon had taken over as executive chairman of Breitbart News after the founder Andrew Breitbart’s …
Continue ReadingDemocrats, Republicans and the White House have agreed to a two-step negotiation process that, they hope, will bring about solutions to the nation’s immigration problems. Congress and the president agreed to come up with a solution to the DACA program …
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