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Former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama listen as Jackie Evancho sings the national anthem following President Trump's inauguration in January. Teenage classical singer Jackie Evancho, one of the first performers to be enlisted for President Trump's inaugural festivities, took to Twitter Wednesday night to express her dismay with the administration's revocation of federal protections for transgender students and to request a meeting with the president.
The Department of Homeland Security on February 21 rolled out a pair of memos meant to set internal guidelines for the implementation of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders. The flagship policies of those executive orders are unpopular with a majority of Americans, but they have been a cause for celebration among nativists and white supremacists.
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The world's biggest automakers have asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to reconsider a recent decision to lock in strict fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to be produced in model years 2022 to 2025. The requests by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers to relax the standards, which the Obama administration finalized Jan. 13, could provide the first indication of how the Trump administration will reshape the government's approach to addressing climate change.
The simple but frustrating truth is that facts alone are not enough to convince people. Even the most thorough, accurate piece of reporting might still be trumped by a poorly reasoned and false counterargument.
The Trump administration plans to roll back protections for transgender students, reversing federal guidance that required the nation's public schools to allow children to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identities. In a letter to the nation's schools, administration officials plan to say they are withdrawing guidance issued by the Obama administration that found that denying transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice violates federal prohibitions against sex discrimination, according to a draft of the letter obtained by The Washington Post .
President Donald Trump's administration are thought to be keeping the protections in place for child US immigrants. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump's administration plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, but will leave protections in place for immigrants known as "dreamers" who entered the United States illegally as children, according to official guidelines released on Tuesday.
Mike Schwarz, sole proprietor of Mike Schwarz Photography, poses for a Feb. 9 photo in Tampa, Florida. Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance.
President Donald Trump denounced "bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms" during his first visit to the new Smithsonian black history museum on Tuesday. Trump, in remarks after his tour, called the museum "truly great" and said he would be back to see more of the 3,000 objects illustrating African-American history.
President Donald Trump will issue "further guidance" on an Obama administrative policy aimed at protecting transgender students in public schools, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said during a Tuesday news briefing. As Politico reports, advocates expect President Barack Obama's directive to be rescinded soon.
Michael Flynn's departure as national security adviser highlights the troubling and mysterious ties between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. We know Trump is the most pro-Russia president in American history.
One of Africa's longest-serving heads of state turns 93 today -- but is showing no signs of slowing down. In an interview to state media to celebrate the occasion, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe confirmed that he intends to run for president in the 2018 general election, Reuters reported.
The Space Needle towers in the background Feb. 15 beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle. A board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Lester Ross, says China is preparing to retaliate if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump carries out promises to impose sanctions on Chinese goods.
A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017. A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017.
Mitchell Schwartz is one of eleven candidates challenging incumbent Eric Garcetti to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. A Democrat who directed Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in California, Schwartz says Mayor Garcetti is ducking the issue of rising crime.
U.S. President Donald Trump should not be afforded the "rare privilege" of a state visit, a British opposition lawmaker said Monday, as Parliament debated a call for Trump's invitation to be downgraded and stripped of its royal seal of approval. The nonbinding debate was called in response to an online petition with more than 1.8 million signatures saying a formal state visit "would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."
After President Donald Trump's raucous first month in office, Europeans have reacted with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a century of trans-Atlantic friendship may be sinking. "Too much as happened," European Union leader Donald Tusk said Monday, "for us to pretend that everything is as it used to be."
Marc Zell is a director of Ariel University and founder and vice president of Republicans Abroad Israel. He is founder and principal of Zell, Aron & Co., with offices in Israel, the United States, Russia, Canada and Jordan concentrating in international business law and litigation.