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After meeting with Mexican President Enrique PeA a Nieto, Republican nominee Donald Trump said that both countries must respect the others' right to build a border wall on their soil to stop the movement of people, illegal drugs and weapons. Trump said he and PeA a Nieto discussed his call for a border wall during their meeting at the president's official residence in Mexico City, but did not talk about Trump's insistence that Mexico pay for it.
Amtrak's new Acela trains scheduled to hit the tracks in 2021 are expected to be faster than the current aging fleet and will run more frequently. Vice President Joe Biden announced the upgrade of Amtrak's trains, tracks and platforms along the Northeast Corridor which will be paid for with part of a $2.45 billion loan from the U.S. government, said the Boston Globe .
Donald Trump was greeted by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto with an earful on trade and the importance of ties between the US and its southern neighbor. The Republican presidential candidate made a last-minute trip Wednesday to Mexico in his first visit after becoming the nominee to meet with a world leader - one who has publicly insulted him and criticized his immigration and border policies.
Donald Trump is traveling to Mexico Wednesday to meet with the country's president just hours before he is set to deliver a speech focused on immigration policy. "I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow," the Republican presidential nominee tweeted Tuesday.
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.
As Barack Obama's presidency nears its end, Indonesians still speak with pride of the childhood years he spent in their country, though much of the enthusiasm has faded along with the impossibly high expectations of what the first African-American president would achieve. A fan club, books, a statue, a cafe and even a movie were all part of the mania for Obama in the world's most populous Muslim nation after he was elected president in 2008.
The United States on Monday met President Barack Obama's goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, the White House announced. Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United States.
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.
Huma Abedin has worked with Hillary Clinton for decades, serving as the presidential candidate's right-hand woman at the White House, Senate, State Department and private life. But her role in Clinton's career has come into a harsh spotlight as the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and Clinton's State Department is being scrutinized, and Abedin's name is front and center in emails being parsed to determine any inappropriate links.
Nothing can be more embarrassing than having to phone your attorney from Alaska for legal assistance in escaping a fine for lashing your Irish Setter to the roof of your car. Mitt Romney may have gotten away with it in Massachusetts in 1983, but that behavior would get him a hefty fine in Alaska where it is illegal to tether a dog onto the roof of a car.
If "politics ain't beanbag," as the saying goes, then the reality seems to be that political jousting is a time-honored tradition in our body politic. While the current presidential election campaign in the U.S. may be knuckle-dragging its way through the pit of incivility, politics has always been ripe for tough talk, satire and ridicule.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent detains juvenile immigrants without proper documents near the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 10, 2015, at La Grulla, Texas. The number of unaccompanied minors and families crossing the border from Central America has surged in recent months.
A protester wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama attends a rally opposing a plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S Embassy in Seoul, ... . President Barack Obama is seated in the presidential vehicle as his motorcade leaves Farm Neck Golf Course in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, after playing a round of golf Friday, Aug. 12, 2016.
Faculty from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai joined colleagues from around the world at the University of Brescia in Italy for a recent conference on the internationalization of education and research. The 2016 Brescia Internationalization Summit, held on July 13, 2016, included a roundtable discussion where participants explored the university's role in creating a new generation of globally minded professionals for the advancement of science.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke with senior citizens at the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines to bring awareness on the Zika virus. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke with senior citizens at the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines to bring awareness on the Zika virus.
The Obama administration is shifting $81 million in funds from other programs to cover the costs of Zika research following continuing congressional inaction to combat the spreading disease. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell wrote congressional leaders Thursday to say she'll transfer $34 million away from other National Institutes of Health programs and $47 million from other biometical research programs to temporarily cover a shortfall in Zika funding.
In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
A giant "T" is displayed on Sam Pirozzolo's lawn in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Days after the torching of a giant "T" tribute to Donald Trump on a New York City lawn, a new, even bigger red-white-and-blue letter has risen on the same grass spot.
On the heels of an unprecedented U.S. travel warning, and the prospect that an essential clinical trial for the vaccine to contain the Zika virus will be terminated for lack of funds, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on House and Senate leadership to suspend congressional recess-for even just one day-and pass a $1.9 billion emergency funding bill that is needed to fight the Zika spread. Specifically, Schumer explained that phase one of Zika vaccine trials began this week but without passing this bill, the dollars for the next phases of vaccine clinical trials will cease.