Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Arabia ambassador to the US and younger brother of the ruling crown prince, left the kingdom’s embassy in Washington last week on what is being called a fact-finding mission about Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance.
Saudi Arabia’s influence in the US is being scrutinized after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
Following Donald Trump saying yesterday (Oct. 13) there could be “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if officials were involved in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi government has threatened to retaliate.
US stock markets closed down sharply again on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 2.13% and the S&P 500 index down 1.96%. It’s the second day of steep drops for US stocks, and the worst start to a trading quarter in nearly two years.
Kanye West was scheduled to have lunch at the White House today, to talk about jobs for African-Americans and the crime rate in Chicago. Instead, he created a scene that left even Trump speechless.
In June 2017, Nikki Haley made a trip to the vast Gaza Strip refugee camps that shelter millions of displaced Palestinians.
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned. She will leave office at the end of 2018, the White House announced on Tuesday.
With a vote of 50-48-1, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court today, despite allegations of sexual assault, and calls from universities, lawyers, and church groups for him to withdraw.
Senator Susan Collins, the Republican from Maine, explained why she would support Brett Kavanaugh on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, essentially guaranteeing he will be the US’s next Supreme Court justice.
Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, holds a pivotal vote in the confirmation of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial nomination to the Supreme Court advanced a step further this morning, when senators voted 51 to 49 to advance to a final confirmation vote.
A vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court is expected this weekend, after Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell filed a late-night motion for a “cloture” vote to be held tomorrow (Oct. 5).
The rush to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next US Supreme Court justice—despite growing doubts about his temperament and truthfulness, as well as allegations of sexual misconduct—boils down to one reason: He’s key to getting Trump voters to the polls in November, some Republicans say.
US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote for Brett Kavanaugh on Friday (Oct. 5), after the conclusion of a hasty FBI investigation into his background that didn’t include an interview with the Supreme Court nominee nor the woman who has accused him of sexual assault when she was 15.
The Trump administration just ended a policy of giving visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats stationed at the UN, and is balking at including questions about LGBTQ identity on the 2020 US census. Yet at Washington DC’s storied Mayflower Hotel, the Log Cabin Republicans—the four-decade-old lobbying and activist group for LGBTQ party members—kicked off their annual Spirit of Lincoln dinner by recounting 2018’s triumphs.
The New York State tax authority is “vigorously pursuing” an investigation into decades of alleged tax fraud by the Trump family, after the New York Times reported that Donald Trump and his parents avoided nearly $500 million in taxes, partially by underreporting assets and using shell companies.
In an exhaustive deep dive into the finances of Donald Trump, and his real estate mogul father Fred, the New York Times details a pattern of tax avoidance and parental gifts that created the US president’s business empire.
The new “USMCA” deal the US, Canada, and Mexico tentatively agreed to provides wide-reaching protection to internet giants from lawsuits and liabilities for what appears on their services.
Donald Trump dubbed NAFTA “the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere” and threatened multiple times to cut Canada from the three-nation pact or just terminate the entire thing.
Donald Trump’s rambling press conference in New York yesterday (Sept. 26) was peppered with outlandish statements. But one thing was consistent: multiple times, the US president said, or strongly implied, that the women who accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault are not to be believed. He sometimes went a step further, suggesting that most women who accuse men of sexual assault should be doubted. Here are all 31 instances:
Donald Trump gave one of the longest, most chaotic press conferences of his tumultuous presidency Wednesday (Sept. 26) at a midtown New York hotel near the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
China is interfering in the US’s upcoming midterm elections to help the Democrats, Donald Trump claimed without offering any evidence as he opened the Security Council meeting at the UN General Assembly.
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly the US is “taking a hard look at U.S. foreign assistance” and would “only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends.”
Donald Trump said the US is turning its back on globalism, criticized OPEC and Iran, and praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the growing nationalism in Poland in his speech to the UN General Assembly.
