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The nation's five surviving former presidents will attend an Oct. 21 benefit concert for the victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation said Wednesday. The concert - "Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal" - will be held at Texas A&M University and will be attended by former Presidents Bush 41, along with Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China.
President Donald Trump has set out to upend some of President Barack Obama's regulations, which he says circumvented Congress in the first place and cost American businesses and the economy billions of dollars. Without any major legislative accomplishments to point to despite the advantage of a Republican-controlled Congress, Trump on Monday is giving a speech highlighting his own directives to agencies, which have been ordered to cut two regulations for every new one imposed.
Who are you? I've got to say that I really don't know anymore. It's kind of a strange turn of events since we went to the same public schools across the Deep South, then attended the same state colleges, cheering wildly on Saturdays for our favorite SEC teams and spent Sunday mornings together in the same Southern Baptist pews.
Rihanna criticized President Donald's Trump response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, suggesting that the president is not paying enough attention to the disaster occurring on the island.
After not mentioning hurricane-devastated island for days, Trump on Tuesday pushed back aggressively and repeatedly against criticism that he had failed to quickly grasp the magnitude of Maria's destruction or give the U.S. commonwealth the top-priority treatment he had bestowed on Texas, Louisiana and Florida after previous storms.
U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, spoke candidly about how federal legislators have failed to address an urgent issue. “For too long, Congress has punted fixing our broken immigration system,” she was quoted as saying in a story published Saturday by the Watertown Daily Times.
The News & Observer of Raleigh on University of North Carolina Board of Governors criticizing school officials over the recent controversy about a Confederate memorial statue at the Chapel Hill campus: Now 15 members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors have criticized in a letter UNC system President Margaret Spellings, Board of Governors Chair Lou Bissette and by implication UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt over the recent controversy about the Silent Sam Confederate memorial statue on the Chapel Hill campus.
THE BIG IDEA: For many of President Trump's core supporters, his appeal has always been more about tone than substance. Commentators often misunderstood his 2016 success by overly focusing on the specific policies he was proposing.
Left-wing voters are less likely to have cars and more likely to be put off voting in inclement weather, so the saying goes. Or, right-wing voters tend to be older and more civic-minded, and therefore more determined to get out and vote.
Illustration by Joan Wong; Obama photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times and Trump photo by Chang W. Lee, via The New York Times The United Nations isn't the venue one would expect for threatening war. Yet that's what President Trump did in his first address to the General Assembly.
Film director Rob Reiner and Atlantic senior editor David Frum are teaming up to promote a group that aims to widely share information about Russia's involvement in the 2016 election and its ongoing threat to US institutions. The Committee to Investigate Russia's website, InvestigateRussia.org, launched on Tuesday and includes a video featuring actor Morgan Freeman.
In recent weeks I read more about the high heels that Melania Trump wore on a trip to Texas than I did about the positive developments in a war that was at the center of the foreign-policy debate in last year's presidential election. In that debate, you may recall, Donald Trump went against most of the candidates from his own party in welcoming the Russian military into the war against ISIS as an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting on June 21 with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election and possible connection to the Trump campaign. A questionable ethics move.
Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday expressed optimism that President Trump might break a legislative logjam with his six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children. Carter told Emory students that the "pressures and the publicity that Trump has brought to the immigration issue" could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.
Daniel Craig, the nominee to be second-in-command at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Wednesday he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the job. Craig told CNN he is no longer pursuing the job because "FEMA doesn't need the sidetrack right now" -- referencing an NBC News report that investigators had probed the work and travel records he submitted while working as an official in the George W. Bush administration.