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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One on a trip to Saudi Arabia. Nearly a year into his presidency, he remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage.
President Donald Trump's administration is rescinding proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing and other oil- and gas-drilling practices on government lands. The rules developed under President Barack Obama would have applied to drilling on federal lands located mainly in the West.
Registration will allow you to post comments on timesunion.com and create a timesunion.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to vote at her polling place in Chappaqua, N.Y. Vanity Fair is trying to defuse criticism of a video mocking Clinton and her presidential aspirations.
President Donald Trump attacked China on Thursday following reports that Chinese ships transferred oil to North Korean vessels at sea in violation of U.N. sanctions over the North's nuclear weapons program.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed a factually inaccurate attack on the FBI on Thursday that characterized the agency as politically biased. Clinton and several of her prominent supporters shared a tweet from Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who is known for spreading anti-Trump conspiracy theories.
As they scrambled to finish their sweeping tax bill in late October, House lawmakers arrived at a surprising decision: They wouldn't cut the income tax rate for the wealthy. That choice broke with conservative economic principles, which call for lower rates for high earners to spur investment and boost the economy.
Though he didn't call Donald Trump by name, in his interview with Prince Harry, Barack Obama warned other world leaders against using social media to spread misinformation! Amidst reports that Barack Obama, 56, is on the Royal wedding invitation list, while a certain someone might not be, the former President urged those in leadership positions not to use social media to spread misinformation and foster division during his interview with Prince Harry, 33, for BBC Radio 4's Today show on Dec. 27. While he didn't name him, it's pretty clear that Obama was talking about Donald Trump, 71, who is known for his itchy Twitter thumb! "All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate
It's late December, when columnists offer their predictions for the coming year. But as I did 12 months ago, I'd like first to see how my predictions for 2017 fared.
"Well, at least in my case, I would say the president was a factor, but not the factor for me deciding to leave," Dent said during an interview with CNN. "Of course then, Donald Trump, you know, complicates that because he's a very polarizing figure , and so I suspect our challenges will be even greater just because of that."
Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI for records about the reassignment of FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from Speical Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign apparently because of anti-Trump and pro-Clinton texts he shared with his mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who also briefly worked on the Mueller team. "It is disturbing the FBI has stonewalled our request about the Mr. Strzok demotion for four months," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at Vanity Fair, after the magazine said an online video mocking Hillary Clinton "missed the mark." The video posted over the weekend shows editors of Vanity Fair's Hive website offering toasts and New Year's resolutions for Clinton, including that she vow to take up knitting, volunteer work or any hobby that would keep her from running again for president.
Marchers from Westchester County, N.Y. are pictured attending the Women's March in Washington D.C. earlier this year. While it's hard to point to a single word as defining an entire year, several words help define news events and movements in 2017.
President Donald Trump and his predecessor, Barack Obama, have at least one thing in common: identical approval and disapproval ratings in one national poll after their first year in office.
With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans had high hopes of pushing an ambitious agenda forward and making good on last year's campaign promises. But their long-held promise of repealing and replacing the 2010 health care law stalled in the Senate in one of the most dramatic moments of the year.
There were so many gigantic news events in 2017 that the merely huge, or yooge, got the dog-bites-man treatment. What happened while we were focused on the president's tweets; the attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; the hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico; the tax bill; and #MeToo? Opinion asked two close observers of the media environment, Adam H. Johnson and Sean Davis , to list the top 10 under-covered stories of the year.
While we celebrate every new year about the uncertain future that's ahead of us, and hoping that that uncertainty comes in the brightest shades, we have some tradition that we practice each year. We make the 'new year new me' promise to ourselves and our friends on social media, and we go online revisiting prognostications for the future from so-called mystics and other alleged seers.
Trump trailed former President Barack Obama as the most admired man for 2017, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, marking one of the very few times in recent history that an incumbent president hasn't taken the top spot. Gallup has asked the most admired man question 71 times since 1946 and the sitting president has won 58 of those times, according to Gallup.