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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.
Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon, shown in Indianapolis in December, is backing former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Republican Senate runoff race against current Sen. Luther Strange. The winner will face Democrat Doug Jones during the Dec. 12 general election.
The Pentagon has confirmed that transgender troops currently serving in the military are able to re-enlist in the next several months as a ban on their service is under review. In a memo to military leaders on Friday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said the Pentagon would convene a high-level panel to determine how to carry out the ban ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump on transgender individuals in the military.
A European Union official said Saturday the United States has re-engaged the Paris climate deal, but the White House quickly responded that there has been no change in President Donald Trump 's intention to pull the country out of the deal. European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete told reporters the United States plans to review the deal more closely for a better understanding of the terms agreed to by former President Barack Obama in 2015.
Hillary Clinton - who lost the 2016 election, in case you weren't sure - is on a book tour with her campaign memoir, "What Happened." Donald Trump - who is still campaigning despite having won - is chatting up Democrats to try to get something done.
Democratic lawmakers shut out of governance for much of this year now find themselves at the center of high-stakes negotiations with President Donald Trump that could achieve a prize they have sought for nearly a decade: permanent legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants. For a small but vocal contingent of Democrats, these talks are fraught with peril, largely because of their total distrust of a man who began his presidential campaign two years ago describing Mexican immigrants as rapists.
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has joined an effort to challenge President Donald Trump's announced ban on transgender troops, a sign that open resistance to the order is growing. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a military hawk and one of the GOP's most outspoken critics of Trump, said in a statement Friday that he was backing the measure because "we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country."
The Trump administration may be shifting its stance on the Paris Agreement, according to statements from a top European Union official that have emerged during a summit in Canada. Miguel Arias Canete, the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, reportedly said from the summit, "The U.S. has stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris accord, but they will try to review the terms on which they could be engaged under this agreement."
The Trump administration allegedly said Saturday the country is going to re-enter the Paris climate accord, according to the European Union's top energy official. "The U.S. has stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris accord, but they will try to review the terms on which they could be engaged under this agreement," European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias CaA ete told reporters Saturday.
Chatham County is one of three Georgia counties to be named in a major disaster declaration by President Donald Trump following Hurricane Irma, according to WJCL. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in a press release that Chatham County, in addition to Camden and Glynn counties in Georgia, are covered by the president's order, reports WJCL.
Global climate ministers on Saturday encouraged the U.S. to remain in the Paris agreement and continue the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With China and the European Union, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna co-hosted a day-long meeting of 34 countries to maintain momentum to implement the Paris accord.
U.S. Army recruiters have abruptly canceled enlistment contracts for hundreds of foreign-born military recruits since last week, upending their lives and potentially exposing many to deportation, according to several affected recruits and a retired Army officer and former Pentagon official familiar with their situation. Many of these enlistees have waited years to join a troubled immigration recruitment program designed to attract highly skilled immigrants into the service in exchange for fast-track citizenship.
Eric Fanning, who served as U.S. Secretary of the Army under President Barack Obama, speaks to attendees Thursday, Sept. 14 at a speaking event in East Lansing featuring Fanning and Elissa Slotkin, Democratic Congressional candidate for the 8th District.
Transgender personnel in the US military can keep serving and can re-enlist well into next year while the Pentagon figures out how to implement President Donald Trump's ban, an official said today. Trump surprised Pentagon leaders in July by announcing via Twitter the ban on transgender people serving "in any capacity," reversing a plan launched by his predecessor Barack Obama that would see the military accept openly transgender recruits.
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The California Assembly has voted to move the 2020 presidential primary to March to give the nation's most populous state more influence in choosing nominees. The bill approved Friday will now go to the state Senate where it's expected to pass.
Who would have thought that Floyd "Money" Mayweather, Jr. is arguably the greatest boxer by record, in history, would actually be sticking up for Donald Trump on one issue. After coming off the biggest payday of any boxer before - a whopping $300 million fighting against MMA fighter Conor McGregor - the man holds a perfect record, and that's saying something.
The House on Thursday backed legislation that would make membership in a criminal gang grounds for deportation as Republicans warned of the dangers of the violent street gang MS-13. The measure passed on a largely party-line vote of 233-175.
Lance Cpl. Diego Velazquez Valdivia leads the audience and fellow naturalized service members in the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump observed a moment of silence at the White House, to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m, the exact time that American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.