NAFTA negotiations: U.S. trade officials say Canada’s key demands will be tough sell

Some of Canada's key demands in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiation will be a tough sell in the United States, according to former American trade officials who say they will be difficult to achieve in the climate of a Donald Trump , America First-themed presidency. The Canadian government has just released priorities for the talks which begin Wednesday and they include a broad desire for four new chapters, and two specific demands: fewer Buy American rules for public contracts and freer movement of professionals.

Furor over Charlottesville follows Trump home to Manhattan

President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as the furor over his reaction to race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down. Protesters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue tried to spoil Trump's homecoming Monday night with signs bearing messages like "stop the hate, stop the lies" and chanting "shame, shame, shame" and "not my president!" After two days of public equivocation and internal White House debate, the president condemned white supremacist groups by name on Monday, declaring "racism is evil".

Buy stocks because you believe in the U.S., not a a Trump bumpa

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, a digital analytics firm reviewed 4.5 million tweets that expressed an opinion about Donald Trump and found that 200,000 included threats to leave the U.S. The top destination was Mexico, but 5,800 said they would move to Alaska and another 1,500 chose Hawaii. These people knew they didn't like Trump, but apparently did not know that Alaska and Hawaii are U.S. states.

US ‘closer to war than ever before’

What's the football? And what's the biscuit? Trump has the US nuclear codes that, together with the Pentagon, could launch an ICBM in 5 minutes and start a nuclear war with North Korea, or anyone really. North Korean government launches the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea.

GOPs Shotgun Marriage – Can the GOP’s Shotgun Marriage Be…

Can the GOP's Shotgun Marriage Be Saved? By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - August 29, 2017 Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Trump to tackle opioid addiction in White House speech

President Donald Trump is poised to deliver a major speech Thursday on fighting the opioid epidemic, the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. "We're going to have a big meeting on opioids tomorrow," Trump told reporters as he left the White House Wednesday en route to Texas.

Tanner Ainge faces two opponents in Utah primary for vacant House seat

Three GOP candidates hoping to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz in Congress face off in a primary election Tuesday after weeks trying to burnish their conservative credentials and fend off attack ads from deep-pocketed outside groups. Chaffetz abruptly stepped down from his seat in June after making a name for himself as the Republican who relentlessly investigated Hillary Clinton and her emails while he was chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

Thomas Friedman: If you want to reach voters, aim for the gut

I was talking the other day to a wise executive friend and he recalled for me something his favorite boss liked to say: When people rise to the top of an organization and get power, they usually do one of two things: "They either swell or they grow." Every character flaw he had before taking office from his serial lying to his intellectual laziness to his loyalty just to himself and his needs has grown only larger and more toxic as he has been president.

Bowing to pressure, Trump denounces hate groups by name

Bowing to pressure from right and left, President Donald Trump condemned white supremacist groups by name on Monday, declaring "racism is evil" after two days of public equivocation and internal White House debate over the deadly race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a hastily arranged statement at the White House, Trump branded members of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who take part in violence as "criminals and thugs."

Nevada’s Elected Officials Respond to Violence to Charlottesville

Sen. Dean Heller says he's glad President Donald Trump has sharpened his criticism of the white supremacists who incited violence at a rally that turned deadly in Virginia over the weekend. The Nevada Republican told reporters in Reno on Monday it was important for the president to more strongly denounce the racism and bigotry espoused by the white nationalists before a car plowed into a crowd in Charlottesville.

Trump campaign emails show aide’s repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings

Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: "Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin." The adviser, George Papadopoulos, offered to set up "a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump," telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity,according to internal campaign emails read to The Washington Post.

Maduro seeks probe of opposition over Trump’s military talk

President Nicolas Maduro asked the pro-government constitutional assembly Monday to investigate the opposition for allegedly supporting Donald Trump's remarks on using military action to resolve Venezuela's political crisis. Addressing a rally of government supporters, Maduro said Trump's comments were prompted by the failure of the opposition's campaign to oust him after months of destabilizing protests.