President Donald Trump is being candid and firm with world leaders, just as he was with the U.S. public during the 2016 campaign, according to Vice President Mike Pence. “I think the American people have a president that is candid with them and candid with the world, and his conversations with world leaders reflect a […]
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International, USARex Tillerson, the newly confirmed secretary of state, gently told State Department employees Thursday to unite under the new president. Tillerson, sworn in on Wednesday, had to address the issue in his first speech to State employees because of the leaks of President Donald Trump’s transcripts made to the media, leaks ostensibly committed by federal
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump’s business policy forum met for the first time Friday morning — minus a few key chief executives who’d been named to the group last year. Absent from the White House gathering were Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who quit the panel this week amid fallout over Trump’s executive order on immigration, and Walt
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USAARLINGTON, Va. — A Virginia court dismissed a weapons charge Friday against a White House national security aide, but not before an unwanted spotlight was cast on one of the architects of President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies. Sebastian Gorka, charged last year with trying to board an airplane with a loaded handgun, is an
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International, USANearly 60,000 visas were revoked after President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee resettlements and other admissions from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a government lawyer said in a Virginia federal court Friday. The revelation came during a hearing on a lawsuit filed against the president’s order last week by visa holders prevented from entering
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International, Middle East, USAThe number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom increased by more than a third in 2016 to reach record high levels, according to data released Thursday by a leading Jewish charity. The man who leads the policing of Jewish communities has linked the increase to a range of both local and global factors, including
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InternationalThe White House reveled Friday in the first jobs report of the new administration that showed the U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January, saying President Trump had already taken steps to turn the economy around. “Today’s report reflects the consumer confidence that the Trump presidency has inspired,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer,
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, has been sued again by a film financier that accuses Mnuchin and others of fraud related to the collapse of movie and TV company Relativity Media. RKA Film Financing, in an amended complaint filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, renewed its claim
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAOn Sunday night, my dad was going through the security line at Washington Dulles International Airport to board a short domestic flight. It was, by his account, an uneventful evening, away from the protestors who were awaiting international arrivals. According to his boarding pass, he’d been granted TSA Pre-check, the Transportation Security Administration protocol to
Valletta (dpa) – EU leaders agreed on a plan to stem the flow of migrants via the Mediterranean at a summit in Malta on Friday, yet they repeatedly found themselves addressing the elephant in the room: US President Donald Trump. The summit, which ended on Friday evening, came as the European Union finds itself under
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By Yoni Peres, DVM TEL AVIV, Israel — At the top of the cliff, just like Noah’s Ark after the flood, overlooking the Tel Aviv skyline, stands a unique building – the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Just a few steps away, in an old building at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology, Professor Tamar Dayan, the
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Yoni PeresNew Delhi (dpa) – Workers, students and fishermen were Friday involved in a massive operation to clean up an oil spill off the coast of India’s southern Chennai city amid warnings of ecological damage by environmentalists. Two ships collided near the Ennore port area last weekend resulting in 20 tonnes of fuel spilling into the
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he found much common ground with US Vice President Mike and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after meeting with them Thursday in Washington. There were differences between Germany and the United States on migration, Europe, Ukraine and Russia’s behaviour, Gabriel said, but in his meetings with
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International, USAPresident Trump signed a memorandum Friday to delay – and potentially cancel – a sweeping federal rule that would impose new responsibilities on financial advisers, a move guaranteed to provoke heated objections from consumer advocates and liberal lawmakers. The memorandum targets the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule that, when it begins to phase in April
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