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President Donald Trump begins his term with ambitious promises regarding the economy. He has pledged to boost economic growth to 4 percent a year and create 25 million jobs in the next decade as "the greatest jobs producer that God ever created."
New York, Jan 29 - Indian-American actor Kal Penn has started a fund raiser for Syrian refugees after a Twitter user said he doesn't belong in the US. Penn, who has been playing pivotal roles in the American entertainment industry for over a decade now, originally set the fund raising amount at $2,500, but has raised over $128,000, reports dailymail.co.uk.
President Donald Trump's seismic move to ban more than 130 million people from the United States and to deny entry to all refugees reverberated worldwide Saturday, as chaos and confusion rippled through US law enforcement agencies, airports and foreign capitals trying to grasp the US's new policy. Trump's executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.
Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States following President Donald Trump's executive order. After a brief hearing in front of a small audience that filtered in from a crowd of hundreds outside, Donnelly determined that the risk of injury to those detained by being returned to their home countries necessitated the decision.
Washington a President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered the Pentagon to devise a strategy to defeat the Islamic State and restructured the National Security Council to include his controversial top political adviser, as he forged a partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first official phone call. Trump and Putin spoke for one hour and vowed to join forces to fight terrorism in Syria and elsewhere, according to the White House and the Kremlin, signaling a potential shift in U.S.-Russian relations that have been marked by high tension.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah addresses his supporters at the American Preparatory campus in Draper, Saturday, March 19, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Carly Fiorina and Glenn Beck were also in attendance.
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U.S. Reps. Dina Titus and Ruben Kihuen this afternoon condemned President Donald Trump's executive order barring refugees from entering the country, while vowing to help those who may be affected.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that temporarily would halt the nation's refugee program and usher in the most sweeping changes in more than 40 years to how the U.S. welcomes the world's most vulnerable people. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that temporarily would halt the nation's refugee program and usher in the most sweeping changes in more than 40 years to how the U.S. welcomes the world's most vulnerable people.
President Donald Trump bars all refugees from entering the United States for four months _ and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely _ declaring the ban necessary to prevent "radical Islamic terrorists" from... Confusion, worry and outrage are growing as President Donald Trump's crackdown on refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries takes effect The federal trial of the South Carolina man who slaughtered nine Bible study participants has come and gone, with Dylann Roof's death sentence assuring he will spend the rest of his limited days in prison The federal trial of the South Carolina man who slaughtered nine Bible study participants has come and gone, with Dylann Roof's death sentence assuring he will spend the rest of his limited days in prison The woman at the center of the trial of Emmett Till's alleged killers has acknowledged that she falsely testified he made ... (more)
President Donald Trump acted Saturday to fulfill a key portion of his pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington, banning administration officials from ever lobbying the U.S. on behalf of a foreign government and imposing a separate five-year ban on other lobbying. Administration officials described the bans as historic in scope.
Al Alzubi creates a sign to protest President Donald Trump's executive order banning muslims from certain middle eastern countries at Terminal D at DFW airport, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Alzubi is friends with international students at SMU whose Syrian parents are being detained at the airport.
Republican Sens. Mike Lee, Pat Toomey and James Lankford are scheduled to attend the kick-off to Charles and David Koch's libertarian Seminar Network in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the new fence along the Jordanian border with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and the head of the Southern Command Eyal Zamir, February 9, 2016. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not commenting on US-Mexican relations when the Israeli leader said earlier that US President Donald Trump was "right" in pushing for a wall along the US-Mexico border to block illegal immigration.
US President Donald Trump speaks before a signing ceremony for executive orders and memorandums in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2017, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his "very strict" crackdown on Muslim immigration was working "very nicely," amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.
Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Trump, Putin discuss 'mutually beneficial' trade, security Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
One of the conspicuous absences from the sound and fury last weekend's protests was the impending executive act of President Donald Trump affirming the US exit from the Trans-Partnership Agreement. Not that that was much in doubt: it had not been ratified nor voted upon in Congress, and that particular body had been cooling towards it.
An initial volley in a potential barrage of legal challenges to President Donald Trump's new restrictions on immigration came on Saturday on behalf of two Iraqis with ties to U.S. security forces who were detained at New York's JFK Airport. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the men are challenging the directive on constitutional grounds.
Even though polling suggests an overwhelming majority of Americans want President Donald Trump to curtail his social media presence, he's expanded it - becoming the first U.S. president to formally join Snapchat . The president, who has a very active presence on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook, will now be able to send videos and messages to his supporters on yet another popular platform, presumably in an effort to bypass the traditional press and to perpetuate his persona as a more accessible and unfiltered POTUS.
The fallout grew Saturday from President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown as U.S. legal permanent residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries who had left the United States found they could not return for 90 days. It was a period of limbo for an unknown number of non-American citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen now barred from the country where they were studying or had lived, perhaps for years.