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Trump accuses China of trying to sway U.S. midterms with retaliatory tariffs President Donald Trump says Chinese tariffs - a response to U.S. tariffs - target products in politically important states. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2xniGBc WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump accused China on Tuesday of seeking to interfere in the U.S. congressional elections by slapping tariffs on products from politically pivotal states, even though it was the president who instigated the latest fight by imposing $200 billion in new tariffs on Beijing.
The Senate cannot move forward with this lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land without considering the results of a fair, non-partisan, and complete process. Over the weekend, details of serious charges of sexual assault alleged to have been committed by Judge Brett Kavanaugh became public, as did the name of the woman raising these allegations.
This was during the meeting held between President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico on Monday as a part of his two-day official visit. Presidential spokesman Bassam Rady remarked that Sisi issued directives to remove any obstacles faced by the ongoing investigations to resolve the case, find the perpetrators and provide them before the court, pointing out cooperation between the Egyptian Public Prosecution and its Italian counterpart.
The sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh recall Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas in 1991, but there are important differences as well as cautions for senators considering how to deal with the allegations. The decision to have Thomas and Hill testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as Kavanaugh and his accuser will do next Monday, had far-reaching implications for American politics and society's efforts to grapple with sexual harassment in the workplace.
Videos going viral of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro feasting on a steak prepared by a celebrity chef at a time many in his crisis-wracked nation are going hungry is drawing fury from opponents of the embattled socialist leader. Maduro visited the famed Nusr-Et steakhouse in Istanbul when he stopped over briefly in Turkey on the way home from a trip to China to raise badly needed investment.
Nearly a year old and still making headlines almost daily, the #MeToo movement faces a dramatic test of its impact and staying power in the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
President Donald Trump sided with his embattled Supreme Court nominee, defending Judge Brett Kavanaugh against allegations of sexual assault as the White House walked a fine line in addressing accusations that revived memories of the president's own #MeToo moments. Time and again, Trump has defended powerful men against the claims of women.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault when he was a high school student. Christine Blasey Ford, now a university professor, says Kavanaugh held her down and forcibly groped her .
You'd never pick it from her historical statements about not needing to call herself a feminist, but it turns out Julie Bishop and co might be quite the " nasty women ". This is the label then-presidential candidate Donald Trump slapped on rival Hillary Clinton to try to shut her down, which backfired spectacularly when it was grabbed and run with by American women's rights activists to re-energise the movement under the new banner Nasty Women.
'Polar opposite of the Brett I know': Two of Brett Kavanaugh's previous girlfriends speak out to defend the judge following sexual harassment accusations Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of attacking and attempting to rape her at a party when she was 15 and he was 17 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's former girlfriends are speaking out to clear his name following accusations of sexual harassment from his teenage days.
President Donald Trump's routine reaction to allegations of sexual assault is to deny, retaliate and repeat. He has dismissed accusations against himself as "phony" and "false," and when presented with claims against other men, the #metoo-era president tends to side instinctually with the accused.
Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky confirmation hearing in the Senate to become education secretary - this time on a theater stage. In a play performed Monday at Washington's Arena Stage theater, about a dozen student actors from local high schools posed as frustrated Democrats and friendly Republicans to grill DeVos on the merits of public education, the role of the federal government in civil rights, and her family wealth.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her decades ago will testify publicly before the Senate next Monday, setting up a potentially dramatic and politically perilous hearing that could determine the fate of his nomination. Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., remained defiant as they scrambled to protect Kavanaugh's nomination in the wake of the allegation by Christine Blasey Ford, who told The Washington Post in an interview published Sunday that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back, groped her and put his hand over her mouth at a house party in the early 1980s.
In this Sept. 13, 2018, file image take from video provided by WCVB in Boston, flames consume the roof of a home in Lawrence, Mass, a suburb of Boston.
Prof. Anita Hill-who became a national figure in 1991 when she accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment-has urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to redeem itself from her case when it hears the case against Brett Kavanaugh. Writing in The New York Times , Hill says: "In 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee had an opportunity to demonstrate its appreciation for both the seriousness of sexual harassment claims and the need for public confidence in the character of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Betty White got everyone on their feet! The comedian and actress was honored at the 2018 Emmy Awards on Monday, September 17, for being one of the oldest winners in history. She has been nominated 24 times and has won eight - twice for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one for The Golden Girls, one [a ]
Honestly, considering the state of television and, you know, the world, it's pretty shocking that it has taken this long for someone to turn the story of Hillary Clinton 's campaigns for president into a TV series, but better late than never! Deadline reports that Warner Bros. TV has acquired the rights to Amy Chozick's memoir Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, which tells the story of Clinton's campaigns against Barack Obama and Donald Trump from Chozick's perspective.
It was the rarest of graphics in the American news media: a CNN map in which recent Saudi air strikes in Yemen were represented by little yellow explosions. Below them were the number of civilians killed and, below those, the names of the makers of the weapons that had done the killing .
17, 2018. Dozens of homes were destroyed ... . Residents stand in a block-long line outside a customer help center staffed by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts in Lawrence, Mass., Monday, Sept.