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Indonesia's President Joko Widodo gestures during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 3, 2017. Source: Reuters/Beawiharta INDONESIA's president said on Monday his country remains a model of moderate Islam, countering critics who point to mass rallies by radical Muslims and the jailing of a Christian politician for blasphemy as evidence its reputation is crumbling.
President Moon Jae-in renewed his resolve to pursue sanctions and dialogue to tackle North Korea's nuclear program during a meeting with former US President Barack Obama on Monday, saying now is the "last chance" for the regime to return to the negotiating table. During the 40-minute talk, Moon shared the results of his recent summit with his incumbent US counterpart Donald Trump, asking for Obama's advice on ways to advance the relationship.
Barack Hussein Obama just won't go away. He met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for 40 minutes on Monday where they discussed Moon's recent meeting with President Trump.
A reversal of fortune now awaits Ohio's 69th governor after he issued more than 47 vetoes Friday before signing his last state budget deal clocking in at $133 billion in all-funds. Gov. John Kasich's executive prowess started out in 2011 unbeatable, but awaits a comeuppance six years later after lawmakers in his own party prepare to potentially override his vetoes, the biggest of which is freezing Medicaid enrollment next year.
"Those jobs aren't coming back," the typically blunt Apple cofounder told the president. Examining Jobs's claim, the New York Times looked at Apple's vast Chinese operations and found that workers there not only worked for less than Americans did; more of them were skilled.
US President Donald Trump heads into his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with one question looming large: how much is he willing to confront the man whose meddling in the 2016 election may have helped him win? The encounter scheduled for the sidelines of next week's G-20 summit in Germany comes amid a widening US federal investigation into possible collusion between Trump associates and the Russian government. Trump last week gave a rare explicit acknowledgment of the Kremlin-directed effort to disrupt the US presidential campaign.
ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMP likes to rely on his instincts, this week's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, Germany, calls for careful preparation and straight talk. Mr. Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told reporters that "we have no specific agenda" and "it's whatever the president wants to talk about."
The Obama family trip to Indonesia is somewhat of a working vacation. Barack Obama delivered a keynote speech to the 4th Indonesian Diaspora Congress in Jakarta on Saturday , where he preached about "respect for others" and "tolerance."
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead." - Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968 Some of you may recognize the epigraph above from my novel, "Grant Park."
An analysis of White House salary data reveals that President Donald Trump's administration is spending $5 million less of taxpayer money on his staff than his predecessor. Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015, according to data analyzed by Open The Books.
Two Junes ago, when the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, a challenged provision of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, vented: "Congress wrote key parts of the act behind closed doors. ... Congress passed much of the act using a complicated budgetary procedure known as 'reconciliation,' which limited opportunities for debate and amendment, and bypassed the Senate's normal 60-vote filibuster requirement.
June was not a kind month for Jim Messina. After managing Barack Obama's successful re-election campaign, the Washington, DC political consultant from Idaho switched sides and began advising Britain's Conservative Party, the Tories.
Civil rights and LGBT activists say they are concerned about President Donald Trump's nomination Thursday of Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department's civil rights division because of his work defending major corporations and others against discrimination lawsuits. Dreiband, a labor attorney in Washington, D.C., who served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under George W. Bush, has represented such companies as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama waves prior to delivering his speech during the 4th Congress of Indonesian Diaspora Network in Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday. Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about tolerance and taking the daily news cycle in stride.
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Amanda Litman pitches her organization Run For Something to an audience of prospective candidates and donors at a house party in Brooklyn Heights. Amanda Litman pitches her organization Run For Something to an audience of prospective candidates and donors at a house party in Brooklyn Heights.
John Kasich just thwarted Ohio GOP's Medicaid freeze. What's next? Gov. John Kasich vetoed GOP lawmakers' plan to cripple Medicaid expansion, but the battle is far from over.
Three days after Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed his staff to find ways to give a boost to coal and nuclear power, the rival wind industry kicked its lobbying response into action. The American Wind Energy Association would tap allies in Congress willing to weigh in with Perry and buy advertisements on "news channels closely followed by the Trump administration," according to a memo its leader sent to board members.
This June 18, 2014, file photo shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. A new "surge initiative" aims to identify and arrest the adult sponsors of unaccompanied minors who paid coyotes or other smuggling operations to bring young people across the U.S. border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed Thursday, June 29, 2017.
Eric Reid, assistant superintendent, said the American Health Care Act, which the U.S. Senate is currently working on, currently includes provisions that would cut Medicaid reimbursements that help fund federally mandated health services in school districts.