The US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for a second time — just days before he is scheduled to leave office — raising questions about what happens next. The House voted 232-197 to impeach the president, with 10 members of Trump’s Republican Party joining 222 Democrats. Here are some of the […]
America’s relationship with Europe continues to disintegrate during the final days of the Donald Trump administration. Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn blasted the U.S. president the day after the fatal attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election — and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled a planned trip in […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly planning to accuse Iran of links to Al Qaeda in a speech Tuesday, an allegation critics described as a rehashing of a Bush administration lie that served as part of the rationale for the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003. Reuters reported late Monday that Pompeo—a warhawk […]
China’s internet erupted in mirth at America’s troubled democracy after supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the US Capitol, comparing the chaos to the Hong Kong anti-government protests of 2019. On Thursday morning, state media tabloid Global Times tweeted side-by-side photo comparisons of Hong Kong protesters occupying the city’s Legislative Council Complex in July […]
The chaos unleashed on the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters dominated front pages across the world Thursday, with headlines such as “Trump sets fire to Washington”, “Democracy under siege”, and “The Coup of Madness”. For the most part the international press laid the blame squarely at the outgoing president’s feet, accusing him of having […]
On Wednesday, Newsweek reported that a former Russian minister is warning that outgoing President Donald Trump’s attacks on the electoral process are reminiscent of how Russian President Vladimir Putin has bent that country to his will. “Andrei Kozyrev, who was foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin between 1991 and 1996, compared the challenge by President […]
President Donald Trump’s reported plan to escape to Scotland to avoid being in the country for Joe Biden’s inauguration has hit a major snag. The UK Independent reports that Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has said that Trump will not be allowed to stay at his Turnberry golf resort due to the lockdown put […]
Unusual activity near President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland has set off rumors that he might be fleeing there before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Prestwick airport, which is near Trump’s Turnberry resort, was told to expect the arrival on Jan. 19 of a U.S. military Boeing 757 plane the president has reportedly used before, reported […]
President Donald Trump is reporting big losses on his European golf courses according to a new report by Forbes magazine. “Donald Trump continued losing money in 2019 at his two golf properties in Scotland, where he has been struggling for years, according to regulatory documents released this week. Turnberry, the most prestigious property in Trump’s […]
While many of us agree that 2020 can take a long walk off a short pier, some of the worst things that happened brought out the best of us. Amid the hopelessness, isolation, fear and loss there were moments of laughter, gratitude, and above all, compassion. Here is a list of the X good things […]
President Donald Trump is trying to pass the buck for the slow rollout of the novel coronavirus vaccine, and one top public health expert is not buying it. Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, tore into the Trump administration on Wednesday during an appearance on CNN in which […]
Washington (AFP) – Promoters of Britain’s divorce from the European Union had said they would revitalize bonds with the United States, where President Donald Trump, with his shared disdain for multinational bodies, seemed the perfect partner. Come January, Britain both definitively leaves the 27-nation bloc and will deal with a new US president, Joe Biden, […]
Paris (AFP) – The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world. Here are some of the key events of the year: Rampaging virus – On January 11, less than two […]
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Elliot Engel (D-NY) revealed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump had threatened to veto a massive government spending bill because it did not include one of his daughter’s pet projects. “Earlier this week, Congress passed the Omnibus spending bill, but without the key bipartisan State Department Authorization Act,” Engel explained […]
One need not dabble in conspiracy theories to ask a simple question today: What should be done about Donald Trump having served as a Russian asset for the past four years? In the wake of the recently revealed Russian cyberattack on the U.S. — apparently unprecedented in its danger to national security — it’s time […]
Lawyer L. Lin Wood is one of two of President Donald Trump’s legal pals working to stage lawsuits to take the 2020 election results from President-elect Joe Biden. But in a new Sunday tweet, his allegations of conspiracy are now including America’s neighbor to the north, Canada. “CCP & 1000’s of US citizens worked together […]
The United Arab Emirates is getting top-of-the-line fighter jets. Morocco is winning recognition for decades-old territorial claims. And Sudan is coming off the US terrorism blacklist. The Arab nations are suddenly achieving long-sought goals after agreeing to normalize ties with Israel, in a last-minute triumph for the unorthodox diplomacy of outgoing President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, […]
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pointedly broke with the president this week after Trump formally recognized Moroccan sovereignty in the Western Sahara Desert. Inhofe, who has long had ties with the West Sahara’s Polisario Front liberation movement, was furious that the president gave Morocco formal recognition over its claim […]
China on Tuesday blasted new US sanctions against officials involved in the clampdown on Hong Kong, calling the move “crazy and vile”, a further worsening of relations between the world’s superpowers. President Donald Trump’s administration has been using its waning days to ramp up pressure on China, and on Monday froze any US assets and […]
There was some drama on Twitter on Friday when a four-term Republican congressman dunked on a Texas Republican who won a seat in Congress but has yet to be sworn in. It started when Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) urged President Donald Trump to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Rep.-elect Tony Gonzales (R-TX) called out […]
Amid swirling questions over what, if any, role the United States played in the assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, President Donald Trump on Friday amplified to his 88 million followers a Twitter post describing the killing as a “major psychological and professional blow” to Iran. Sina Toossi, a senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council […]
The United States has long championed democracy around the world, pushing persistently, if not always consistently, for leaders to give up power when they lose. President Donald Trump is now establishing a new American model — refusing to concede, making unsubstantiated claims of fraud and seeking the intervention of courts and political allies in hopes […]
In announcing thousands of troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan, President Donald Trump was meeting the mood of the United States but also opening the door to growing, if still limited, influence by US adversaries, experts say. Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan and India all have complex and often competing interests in Afghanistan, where the […]
The US will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest in nearly 20 years, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, prompting security worries among allies and fear on Kabul’s streets after President Donald Trump pledged to end conflicts abroad. Rejecting concerns that precipitous drawdowns could give up security gains after years of fighting, […]
The US will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years of war after President Donald Trump pledged to end conflicts abroad, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said around 2,000 troops would be pulled from Afghanistan by January 15, and 500 more would come […]
Many European leaders, from U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, were quick to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden on his victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election — and it isn’t hard to see that Johnson, Merkel and Macron all believe that U.S. voters […]
France’s Emmanuel Macron will be forced to walk a diplomatic tightrope on Monday when he hosts US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a staunch defender of President Donald Trump, while the French president simultaneously seeks to build relations with President-elect Joe Biden. Pompeo arrived in Paris Saturday at the start of a seven-nation trip to […]
US authorities have given the Chinese owner of TikTok two additional weeks to divest the social media sensation in order to resolve national security concerns voiced by President Donald Trump’s administration. A notice filed by TikTok owner ByteDance in federal court showed that authorities had extended the deadline originally set for November 12 to November […]
With little more than two months left in office, President Donald Trump appears to be pushing ahead with plans to pull out of Afghanistan as he stacks the Pentagon with loyalists. Trump, who refuses to acknowledge defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, in his campaign declared that he was winding down “endless wars” and his new […]
Leaders of major European democracies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have wasted no time congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory over President Donald Trump — and it is clear that Johnson, the leader of the Conservative Party, doesn’t buy into Trump’s claims that […]