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According to Bloomberg, China is considering whether to slow, or even stop, purchases of U.S. Treasuries. At $3.14 trillion, China holds the world's largest foreign exchange reserves.
With the threat of a second government shutdown in as many months mere days away, congressional leaders are hunkering down to negotiate a deal on protection for more than 700,000 undocumented youth this week.
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Students from the David Billingsley School of Music and Arts perform on the drums during the 32nd annual State of Minnesota Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. Mahmoud El-Kati, Professor Emeritus of History at Macalester College, gives Dr. Josie Johnson a kiss on the cheek after the pair were awarded 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award during the 32nd annual State of Minnesota Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018.
As Hawaiians catch their breath following the jarring missile alert mishap over the weekend, scrutiny has reached the White House and how it grappled with the mistaken alarm. A message went out to the people of Hawaii on Saturday, telling them to seek shelter due to an incoming ballistic missile threat.
PORTSMOUTH – Speakers at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day service mixed praise for the fallen civil rights leader with pointed words for President Donald Trump and what they saw as the tone of his administration. Referring to a reported vulgar comment Trump made last week, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said to loud applause that “the words we have heard from this president are disgraceful.” “It is language and a message that we teach our children to reject yet we hear it coming from the highest office in our nation,” Hassan said during the annual service that was held at the North Church in downtown Portsmouth.
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is expected to meet with the House Intelligence Committee as soon as this week, making her one of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes to be privately interviewed in the panel's Russia investigation, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. Hicks, a trusted Trump aide for years, was one of then-candidate Trump's first hires as he put together an improbable run for the White House.
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called President Donald Trump "an embarrassment" and said he "is doing great damage to our country internationally" in a newspaper interview Saturday. Hagel's remarks come amid uproar over Trump's reported remarks during a closed-door immigration meeting with lawmakers last week, during which he is said to have called certain African countries "shitholes."
Dead men tell no tales, but there's new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard's flagship harbored books among the booty. Dead men tell no tales, but there's new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard's flagship harbored books among the booty.
Speaking at Fort Worth's Martin Luther King parade, two leading Democrats suggested President Trump is fueling racial tensions and making it feel like "midnight in America," Monday January 15, 2018. Speaking at Fort Worth's Martin Luther King parade, two leading Democrats suggested President Trump is fueling racial tensions and making it feel like "midnight in America."
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to bring black and white America together, the New York Times has chosen to stoke arguments over race by amassing a collection of allegedly racist quotes by Donald Trump. The piece is titled: Donald Trump's Racism:The Definitive List .
The Latest on President Donald Trump's comments about Haiti and African countries : President Donald Trump is accusing Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of misrepresenting the discussion on immigration during a recent meeting at the White House. And he says the Illinois senator is threatening prospects for a deal to protect certain immigrants.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin gave a scalding opening remark about our country's current political state during the 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Connecticut Convention Center Monday morning. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin gave a scalding opening remark about our country's current political state during the 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Connecticut Convention Center Monday morning.
Rep. Maxine Waters took note of Martin Luther King Day Monday by tweeting that if civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive today he would "be marching not only for civil rights & protecting voting rights, but to urge Members of Congress to accept their responsibility to save the U.S. from a dangerous man who has no respect for our Constitution & no concern for strengthening our democracy."
Sen. Rand Paul told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that charges of bigotry against President Donald Trump remain unfounded because the president previously financed a 2014 medical mission to Haiti.
Whether leading efforts to isolate North Korea or hailing cuts to the United Nations budget, Haley's ability to channel Trump's blunt style is prompting fellow U.N. envoys and foreign policy specialists to wonder whether the 45-year-old former South Carolina governor is laying the groundwork to succeed her boss in the Oval Office. U.N. ambassadors from other nations take Haley's "obvious domestic political ambitions" in stride, said Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Haitian and pro-Trump protesters yelled at each other from opposing corners just down the street from the president's Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago retreat. Bernice King, the daughter of the Rev.
Councilman Stavros Anthony leaves the clerk's office after filing his paperwork to run for Las Vegas City Council representing Ward 4 on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at Las Vegas City Hall. @bizutesfaye Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony is backing out of the race for Nevada's 4th Congressional District, clearing the way for former Rep. Cresent Hardy to take a run at the seat.
Lots of people want to run for Congress in Pennsylvania this year, but they may not yet know which district they live in. The prospect that the state Supreme Court could decide a high-profile gerrymandering case by ordering new boundaries for Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts, including one that has been described as looking like "Goofy kicking Donald Duck," is sowing uncertainty barely a month before candidates begin circulating petitions.
Donald Trump's Racism: The Definitive List - Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and '80s.