Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Republicans are warning President Donald Trump that a trade war with China would deal an economic blow to politically important areas of the country that will cost the party in November's congressional elections. The president's proposed tariffs on a variety of imports are aimed at fulfilling a campaign promise to protect domestic industries slammed by globalization.
Asserting the situation had reached "a point of crisis," President Donald Trump signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration and drug smuggling. "The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people," Trump wrote Wednesday in a memo authorizing the move, adding that his administration had "no choice but to act."
For more than a year, Wall Street has largely ignored the unpredictability and chaos that has plagued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, confident that the businessman-turned-president's policies would juice the economy and that a team of mainstream advisers would keep more controversial proposals at bay. A triple whammy of tariffs, Twitter threats against one of the nation's largest companies and high-level staff shake-ups have rattled Wall Street in recent weeks.
In a marked change in tone, the White House says President Donald Trump is not OK with recent revelations involving the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency. For his part, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is denying he knew about big raises given to two of his closest aides and insisting he did nothing wrong in renting a bargain-priced condo tied to an energy lobbyist.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., uses a salt shaker to illustrate that a similar quantity of the drug fentanyl would kill thousands of people. Cotton and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge held a news conference Wednesday to discuss their efforts to fight opioid problems.
Speaking at the White House Wednesday to follow up on President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he would order the military to help secure the southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen refused to detail the size, scope or cost of a planned deployment of National Guard troops, but said it was hoped they could be deployed "immediately" as early as Wednesday night. Wednesday evening, a senior administration official said the president had signed a proclamation authorizing the National Guard to assist the border patrol.
TRUMP: "Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50 percent, which is higher than Cheatin' Obama at the same time in his Administration."
For more than a year, Wall Street has largely ignored the unpredictability and chaos that has plagued Donald Trump's administration, confident that the businessman-turned-president's policies would juice the economy and that a team of mainstream advisers would keep more controversial proposals at bay. A triple whammy of tariffs, Twitter threats against one of the nation's largest companies and high-level staff shake-ups have rattled Wall Street in recent weeks.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump attempted to block his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but he has told Trump lawyers the president is not currently a "target" of the probe, media are reporting. The Washington Post and Associated Press, citing "people familiar with the discussion," reported on April 4 that Mueller has informed Trump's legal team that he does not view the president currently as a "target," meaning he is not currently a candidate for indictment on criminal charges.
President Donald Trump, unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday, in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally. The Trump administration was working with the governors of the four southwestern U.S. states along the border to deploy the Guard, said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, adding that the troops would not be involved in law enforcement.
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: In this June 13, 2006, file photo, Utah National Guard soldiers work on extending a border fence in San Luis, Ariz., President Donald Trump said April 3, 2018, he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built.
The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 US election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be the most aggressive move so far against Russia's business elite. The action, which could affect people close to President Vladimir Putin, reflects Washington's desire to hold Russia to account for allegedly interfering in the election - which Moscow denies - even as US President Donald Trump holds out hope for good relations with Putin.
President Donald Trump spent nearly three minutes at a luncheon this week welcoming the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - whose difficult-to-pronounce names he never uttered publicly - and saying he should be given "credit" for pressuring countries like theirs to give more money to NATO. As he concluded, White House staffers started to shepherd a small group of journalists out of the room - but Trump was far from done sharing his complaints.
President Donald Trump and border-state governors are working to "immediately" deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration, with some troops potentially arriving later Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said. "The threat is real," Nielsen said at an afternoon briefing, adding that Trump was signing a proclamation to put the deployment into effect.
The Latest on commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. : The rapper Common and pop singer Sheila E have the crowd dancing and bobbing their heads before the start of a march honoring the Rev.
Farm groups pleaded with the Trump administration to back away from a trade conflict with China that will hit hard in states that are key components of the president's political base and where there are pivotal elections in November. Donald Trump 's plan to slap tariffs on 1,333 of the country's products -- from semiconductors to lithium batteries -- by announcing duties on on a variety of agriculture products including soybeans, the second-most-valuable U.S. crop.
"It is remarkable to hear religious leaders defend profanity, ridicule and cruelty as hallmarks of authenticity, and dismiss decency as dead language," writes Michael Gerson in the cover story of the April edition of The Atlantic. He is referring specifically to evangelical Christians who defend President Donald Trump despite his very un-Christian behavior.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was cut down by an assassin's bullet on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, many of the issues to which he dedicated his life remain at the forefront of our national debate. ," University of New Hampshire historian Jason Sokol explores how King's assassination and the response to it shaped the civil rights movement and activists who came after him.
President Donald Trump pledged "strong action today" on immigration, a day after he said he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his "big, beautiful wall" is erected. In an early-morning tweet Wednesday, Trump said "Our Border Laws are very weak" and said Democrats "stand in our way" of new laws.
President Trump tweeted Wednesday that "we will be taking strong action today" on Mexico border security, a day after he and aides talked about sending U.S. troops, including the National Guard. "Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong.