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Republicans demanded a major say on the Iran nuclear agreement two years ago and never got it from Democrat Barack Obama. Now that President Donald Trump has directed Congress to make the international pact more stringent, the GOP is finding it won't be easy.
A recently-released research study sheds light on the values of white working-class voters in the United States and the reasons these voters strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The trio of researchers conducted the study by visiting four places between August 2016 and March 2017: Birmingham, Alabama; Dayton, Ohio; Tacoma, Washington; Phoenix, Arizona; and - for some reason - the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
In the sixteenth century, the French called venereal disease the "pox of Naples," blaming unclean Italians for the spread of the sexually transmitted infection. The people of Italy differed in their diagnosis, nicknaming VD, "the French disease."
At 10 months into Donald Trump's presidency, he's already in the running as the worst president in history: a bombastic fool with a loose grip on reality and an even looser grasp of the Constitution; a dangerous demagogue who uplifts White supremacists; a petulant man-child who uses his position of power to try and shut down opposing viewpoints. At first glance, Pai seems like an average Republican D.C.-insider type.
ISIS fighters have released a new propaganda photo featuring the bullet-ridden faces of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on shooting targets ISIS fighters have released a new propaganda photo featuring the bullet-ridden faces of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on shooting targets. The image circulated by jihadists on social media is one of the first to feature Trump instead of previous US president Barack Obama.
The last runs of heavenly wild salmon are trickling in this month, the buttery coho with flesh the color of fall foliage. After that, we'll have to settle for mostly farmed and frozen fish until next spring - no substitute for the real deal.
Donald Trump has always styled himself as something of a cross between a businessman and mafia boss. But running a protection racket from the Oval Office is something else entirely.
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files BERLIN: If the United States terminates the Iran nuclear deal or reimposes sanctions on Tehran it could result in Iran developing nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war close to Europe, Germany's foreign minister said on Saturday .
IF THE United States terminates the Iran nuclear deal or reimposes sanctions on Tehran it could result in Iran developing nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war close to Europe, Germany's foreign minister said. IF THE United States terminates the Iran nuclear deal or reimposes sanctions on Tehran it could result in Iran developing nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war close to Europe, Germany's foreign minister said.
US Republican Senator Bob Corker stepped up his public feud with Donald Trump, saying the US president's undermining of his top diplomat was like castrating him in public. Corker told The Washington Post inan interview that Trump had undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to enlist China in reining in North Korea's nuclear programme by denigrating the diplomat.
The Virgin Islands don't have a president; they have a governor, Kenneth Mapp, with whom Trump met 10 days ago US President Donald Trump has spoken about another US territory struck by hurricanes as if it's a foreign country. He said in a speech at the Values Voters Summit on Friday that he met with the "president" of the US Virgin Islands.
Emissions spew from the coal-fired Morgantown Generating Station on Tuesday in Newburg, Md. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt took steps to repeal President Barack Obama's policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants last week.
BRACE yourselves. There is a storm coming this way, one containing a blizzard of opinions, a tornado of stats, and a rolling thunder of analysis, and all to mark a very important milestone.
Republican Senator Bob Corker stepped up his public feud with Donald Trump on Friday, saying the US president's undermining of his top diplomat was like castrating him in public. Corker told the Washington Post in an interview that Trump had undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to enlist China in reining in North Korea's nuclear program by denigrating the diplomat.
U.S. President Donald Trump's call for legislation aimed at toughening the Iran nuclear deal faces an uncertain future in Congress even as leading Republican senators stepped forward to champion the cause. "I am directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal's many serious flaws so that the Iranian regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons," Trump said as he announced steps to try to rein in what he described as Iran's "rogue" activities in the Middle East.
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo got in a heated dispute, Friday, with Congressman Jim Jordan over Donald Trump ending ObamaCare subsidies. After asking Jordan for his opinion, Cuomo demanded a more liberal answer: "Jim, why arenA t you saying the President is acting like an emperor? And his job is to execute laws that are passed, not write his own and Congress must hold him into account for doing so."
It's time to build the wall - and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 690,000 DACA "Dreamers" from being deported from the United States. It's a fair deal that could be scuttled only by intense and self-serving partisanship from the White House and the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership.
Roy Moore, the former Alabama State Supreme Court justice who is now the Republican nominee for Senate in the state's special election this December, said he spoke to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after defeating the incumbent senator in the primary last month. At the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Moore said he has spoken to McConnell once, telling him that it would be a "hard campaign."
President Donald Trump signed an executive order early Friday that eliminated cost-sharing subsidies that helped low- and moderate-income Americans afford health insurance. About 50,000 eligible Oregonians stood to lose about $48 million a year in federal assistance.
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker's recent comments about the White House -- that it's an adult day care center and that President Donald Trump's temperament could set us "on the path to World War III" -- reveal a basic truth about what happens to you when you leave Congress: You get to tell the truth. Many of us who've left elected life feel a sense of liberation, as if our tongues are no longer strapped to the right or left sides of our mouths.