Before becoming a US congressman in 2010, Mike Pompeo had patrolled the Iron Curtain, and started and sold two Kansas businesses, but never held office.
US students from coast-to-coast are planning to walk out of their high schools on March 14 to protest lax gun laws and demand protection from school shooters by the federal government. But a counter-movement is brewing on social media, which suggests students use the power of friendship, not agitating for gun control, to protect themselves.
Nearly a month after the shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that killed 17, the White House unveiled a plan on gun safety that focuses on arming teachers, providing more government for mental health programs, and increased background checks, while leaving to the states most of the responsibility for stronger gun laws.
Robert Lighthizer has a lot do over the next 14 days. After Donald Trump’s dramatic tariffs announcement, the US’s top trade official traveled today to Brussels to speak with trade partners.
Donald Trump announced new stiff tariffs on US steel and aluminum imports on Thursday (March 8), but left the door open for plenty of unilateral negotiations, in his trademark “make me a deal” style.
Update March 23: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, and the EU would be exempted from the trade tariffs, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer told US senators today.
Peter Navarro came to the White House though an unusual path—then-candidate Donald Trump reportedly explained his views on China to son-in-law Jared Kushner, and asked Kushner to do some research. Navarro’s book Death by China came up on an Amazon search. Kushner ended up cold-calling Navarro and asked him to join the team, Vanity Fair reported last year.
Donald Trump’s announcement on March 1 that the the US would put a massive, across-the-board tax on imported steel and aluminum jolted markets, alarmed CEOs, and sparked a chaotic scramble in Washington, DC to change his mind, though any means necessary.
Donald Trump’s chief economic advisor Gary Cohn is leaving the White House, and the markets aren’t happy.
The across-the-board tariffs on steel and aluminum that Donald Trump announced last week would result in a net loss of 146,000 US jobs, even before the impact of any retaliatory tariffs from trading partners are figured in, according to a Washington, DC-based economic consulting group.
The National Rifle Association’s black-carpeted booth was packed last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Just days earlier, a school shooter in Parkland, Florida had killed seventeen people.
Donald Trump’s announcement today that the US plans to impose huge tariffs on steel and aluminum imports threatens to spark a trade war with one of the US’s closest allies, Canada.
Donald Trump has been obsessed with “fixing” US trade since he took to the campaign trail. Today, he unexpectedly announced that he’d use a blunt instrument to protect US steel and aluminum manufacturers—massive tariffs, on imports from all countries, for an indefinite period of time.
Donald Trump’s trusted spokesperson Hope Hicks refused to comment so often during his 2016 presidential campaign that someone started a @HicksNoComment Twitter account. Her unexpected departure today from the White House, where she’s led the communications team since last August, was similarly subdued.
Donald Trump is sincere about passing stronger gun safety laws, and willing to oppose the National Rifle Association on certain positions, a senior White House official told Quartz today.
In March of 2000, the White House signed a “historic agreement” with gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson, part of then-president Bill Clinton’s “comprehensive efforts to reduce gun violence in America.”
Since the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, Americans have rushed to offer preventative solutions to mass shootings: Several student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High have called for stricter gun laws, while other voices have been raised to blame mental illness and bullying, calling for tighter school security and demanding broader background checks on gun buyers.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has an “A+“ rating from the National Rifle Association, got over $3 million in campaign support from the powerful gun lobby in the 2016 election, and has a reputation for voting for any gun rights bill that crosses his desk.
Donald Trump hosted a group of students, parents, and teachers at the White House today to talk about how the US can prevent school shootings, in the wake of last week’s lethal school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Tragedies like the school shooting that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida, should be damaging to the National Rifle Association and the gun makers it represents. Since last week, the cash-rich gun lobby has been a target of fury for activists and demonstrators.
The National Rifle Association has been the focus of anger after the Parkland, Florida shooting that killed 17 high school students last week. Protestors outside the group’s Virginia headquarters blamed the group for the student’s deaths, while others called it a terrorist organization.
Donald Trump ordered US attorney general Jeff Sessions to “propose regulations to ban all devices to turn legal weapons into machine guns” today. He was referring to so-called bump stock devices which can modify a semi-automatic rifle to fire as many as 800 bullets per minute.
At least 17 high school students are believed dead in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The suspect, a 19-year-old former student, had threatened his peers before, and collected guns at home, students told the Miami Herald.
Seven days ago, Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary, resigned after reports that his two ex-wives said he physically abused them. Violent crime allegations should have raised flags for Porter’s security clearance months ago, and the White House’s explanation of why he continued to enjoy his clearance has changed on a daily and sometimes hourly basis.
