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Ignoring President Donald Trump's past admonition, U.S. first lady Melania Trump did not cover her head Saturday when they arrived in Saudi Arabia on the opening leg of his first international tour since taking office. Two years ago, then-citizen Trump criticized then-first lady Michelle Obama's decision to go bare-headed on a January 2015 visit with her husband.
Accompanying her husband on his first international trip, U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Saturday stepped off of Air Force One conservatively dressed in long sleeves and pants to conform to the strict dress code that Saudi Arabia enforces for its female citizens. But one thing was missing from her black and gold-belted ensemble: a head scarf.
Accompanying her husband on his first international trip, U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Saturday stepped off of Air Force One conservatively dressed in long sleeves and pants to conform to the strict dress code that Saudi Arabia enforces for its female citizens. But one thing was missing from her black and gold-belted ensemble: a head scarf.
The naming Wednesday of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russian government's meddling in the U.S. election, including ties to Trump's campaign, abruptly shifted the balance of power in Washington. The city's permanent political class forcefully reasserted itself against an antagonistic president determined to bring them to heel.
A giant billboard bearing portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman is seen on a main road in Riyadh, on May 19, 2017. A giant billboard bearing portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman is seen on a main road in Riyadh, on May 19, 2017.
Not Donald Trump's first, Czech born, wife Ivana Trump, but a staunch conservative lawmaker now appears to be the front runner to be the next US ambassador to the Czech Republic. A bigger contrast with the previous incumbent under former president Barack Obama could hardly be found.
Right after President Donald Trump took office, Mikey Dickerson traveled to Silicon Valley to make a pitch for the U.S. Digital Service, a program he'd run that's brought hundreds of technologists to Washington to improve the government's clunky computers and unsecured networks. As a political appointee, Dickerson's job ended in January, yet he volunteered to recruit for the program.
Bill Clinton consulted with folks who came up with him in Arkansas, George W. Bush preferred Texan veterans of his family's hard-fought political battles and Barack Obama had his Chicago peeps. Much has been made of how President Donald Trump has stacked his Cabinet with billionaires, and how he takes off-campus advice from investor Carl Icahn, fellow real estate developer Tom Barrack and media moguls Christopher Ruddy and Rupert Murdoch.
For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban - and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether the ban was designed to discriminate against Muslims. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled arguments in Seattle over Hawaii's lawsuit challenging the travel ban, which would suspend the nation's refugee program and temporarily bar new visas for citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Trump is traveling to Lynchburg, Va., to give the commence ad... . President Donald Trump gestures after speaking to members of the media aboard Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, May 13, 2017.
For a history lesson outside the classroom, head to Zoar, the historic village 75 miles south of Cleveland that was a showplace for communal living two centuries ago. The Society of Separatists of Zoar disbanded in 1898, more than eight decades after its original members arrived in Ohio from Germany, fleeing religious persecution.
Attorney Alice Fisher arrives at the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday, May 13, 2017. Fisher is one of nearly a dozen candidates President Donald Trump is considering to succeed ousted FBI Director James Comey.
The ship made famous in the book and subsequent film "The Perfect Storm" has been intentionally sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts so it can become part of an artificial reef. The sinking of the Tamaroa, a 205-foot Coast Guard vessel, took place Wednesday morning.
"Something is clearly broken when passengers have been treated the way they have on recent flights", Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, told a panel of chastened airline executives at today's hearing. United Airlines Inc UAL .N executives faced harsh criticism from USA lawmakers that demanded answers on Tuesday following the forcible removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight in April, with the carrier's chief executive again apologizing for the incident.
The Dalai Lama's meetings with Trump's predecessor Barack Obama and former US presidents have drawn protests from China. China today dismissed reports that its foreign minister put off his visit to New Delhi last month to attend a RIC meeting to protest India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to travel to Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as part of Southern Tibet.
Two people who were questioned by Belize police in the deaths of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend have been released. The mother of the American man says the U.S. embassy in Belize told her both people being questioned were released and no one is currently in custody.
Congressmen were described as "angry" today when they grilled executives from several different airlines during hearings in the House. Prominently featured was Oscar Munoz, the United CEO best known for recent dragging and beatdown services which are never mentioned in the rewards program brochures.
In one corner: the unpredictable dictator, the third-generation family ruler whose nation has a seven-decade reputation of being erratic, quick to take umbrage and insistent that it is powerful enough to upend the planet. In the other corner: a sandpaper-tongued American president like no other, barely past his first 100 days as leader of the free world, liable to say just about anything - including a handful of conciliatory words at the most unexpected of moments.
Young N.J. activists back 'Day Without Immigrants' boycott Movimiento Cosecha is supporting undocumented immigrants as they coordinate strikes and protests in at least 80 cities. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2pmiU82 Catalina Adorno of Union City, an organizer of Movimiento Cosecha, talking to a woman in Newark about "A Day Without Immigrants," scheduled for Monday, International Workers' Day.
In this Friday, April 28, 2017 photo, a bartender pours Cuban Havana Club rum as he prepares daiquiris at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba. The agency that controls Pennsylvania's state-owned wine and liquor stores is working to lift the embargo on Cuban rum.