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"Yes, I know the political argument, which seemed to arise late in the game, that US standing in the world has collapsed because we didn't follow through on the TPP. But let's just stick with the economics."
Over the years the smug Western pundits have had a good deal of fun at the expense of unhinged Middle Eastern rulers. There was Daffy Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Shortly after his 2016 election win, then-President elect Donald Trump tweeted that, in addition to sweeping the Electoral College, he had beaten opponent Hillary Clinton in the popular vote - but only if the final tally discounted "millions of people who voted illegally." It was a baseless claim he later repeated in January, following his inauguration.
When President Donald Trump took office in January, environmentalists feared his industry-friendly approach to environmental policy would usher in an era of lax environmental enforcement. That concern only grew with the appointment of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency; Pruitt has said that he wants to hand off enforcement to the states and potentially eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance .
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers - a view into their world, whether they're far away or close to home - pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty.
The White House will not officially comment on the bombing of a Minnesota mosque because it may be a hate crime faked by a liberal, according to Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka . An as-of-yet unidentified individual threw a makeshift bomb through the window of a mosque in Minnesota Saturday, and Gorka was asked on MSNBC Monday if the White House will comment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing legal pressure as investigators appear to be focusing on his role in a series of high-profile cases, which a national court said could result in corruption charges. Netanyahu had been question under caution by police over Case 1,000, dealing with gifts given to the Israeli leader and his family by businessmen, and Case 2,000, related to conversations he had with the publisher of one of Israel's largest newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth, for positive coverage.
Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we represent as a nation and a people.
Ace studio musician, a bunch of chart topping songs in both the pop and country hit parade as a solo artist and a successful TV variety host. The whole reason why I ever picked up a guitar as a young child was because I wanted to play solos like the one in "Wichita Lineman."
When the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee , Representative Ben Ray Lujan , stated last week that the party would support Democratic candidates who are anti-choice in order to try and win traditionally conservative districts, he demonstrated once again how the party continues to ignore its base. This policy is no different than what other past and current Democratic Party leaders have echoed for years, and that is the problem.
Joshua Zeitz at Politico Magazine took a look at the history of immigration in the US in light of Trump's immigration plan: The United States is currently experiencing a "historic flow of unskilled immigration," warned Stephen Miller in a bruising news conference last week that saw the White House senior policy adviser harangue a CNN reporter over the famous Emma Lazarus poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Miller, who is also the chief wordsmith behind President Donald Trump's revanchist agenda, speaks with the conviction of a true believer.
It appears that the Trump administration would prefer to break the benefits the ACA offers rather than administer a law it hates. After President Trump's best efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed last month, his administration cancelled contracts with two companies that helped thousands of Americans in 18 cities find health care, adding to the uncertainty over how the ACA enrollment period will proceed.
The Turkish Armed Forces are massing on the Syrian border days after a reshuffle of top brass in the country's military in anticipation of a potential invasion that could dramatically complicate Syria's ongoing civil war. Kurdish militia backed by U.S. forces are currently taking part in an assault against the Islamic State group in their Syrian stronghold Raqqa.
"With the President away, his White House Staff will play - unless former General John Kelly can establish rules of order in his new role as chief of a group he himself has called "dysfunctional." We hear about his challenges and his record."
What's it like to watch a country implode? To see a democracy destroyed and an economy crater? Since 2014, American journalist Hannah Dreier has documented just that in Venezuela, once one of the world's wealthiest nations and still home to what are believed to be the planet's largest oil reserves. ... "People think of Venezuela as a struggling third world country, and I think it gets dismissed sometimes as a country that's always been poor and always had problems.
In a video still image a Russian flag is planted by the Mir-1 mini submarine on the seafloor under the Arctic ice sheet in August 2007. Several northern countries, including Denmark, Canada, United States, Norway, and Russia have competing claims over which country has rights to the mineral and carbon resources under the ocean floor.
With a dysfunctional Congress on recess, House Speaker Paul Ryan has turned his focus back home, touring flood-damaged areas and visiting local businesses in Wisconsin. But he can't escape the questions about why Republicans in charge of Washington aren't delivering.