Category: Donald Trump

Trump Fans Stage Series of Small Rallies Across U.S.

Supporters of President Donald Trump held a second day of small rallies on Saturday in communities around the country, a counterpoint to a wave of protests that have taken place since his election in November. Organizers of the so-called Spirit of America rallies in at least 28 of the country’s 50 states had said they expected smaller turn-outs than the huge crowds of anti-protesters that clogged the streets of Washington, D.C., and other cities the day after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Their predictions appeared to be correct, as they were on Monday when similar rallies were held.

Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, an unidentified Guatemalan woman stands inside a dormitory in the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, N.M. The nation’s immigration courts are already overwhelmed, facing a backlog of more than half a million cases.

Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, an unidentified Guatemalan woman stands inside a dormitory in the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, N.M. The nation’s immigration courts are already overwhelmed, facing a backlog of more than half a million cases.

Jobs Take Center Stage of Climate-Change Debate in Trump Era

As the Trump administration sets to work gutting environmental regulations, the best weapon for battling climate change in the U.S. may be jobs. Many Republicans, including the president, have been unmoved by environmental or scientific arguments that federal policies should support clean energy as a way to combat global warming.

Icahn Lobbying Trump Sparks Civil War in U.S. Ethanol Sector

Billionaire Carl Icahn’s relationship with President Donald Trump has helped spark a round of recriminations within the $24 billion American ethanol industry just as it navigates one of the most crucial points in its history. The discord has emerged in the past three days as ethanol companies react to a proposal from Icahn and a lobby group that would shake up how the industry is regulated.

‘He could have stated his response more accurately’: Trump…

President Donald Trump defended Jeff Sessions on Thursday, calling the embattled attorney general an “honest man” targeted by a Democratic “witch hunt” over his reported contacts with the Russian ambasador. However, the president did note that Sessions could have been clearer during his confirmation hearings, when Sessions denied having discussions with the Russians.

Pelosi Calls on Sessions to Quit After Post Discloses Russia Contacts

U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday after the Washington Post reported he failed to disclose two meetings he had with Russia’s ambassador before Donald Trump was inaugurated as president. Citing Justice Department officials, the Post said Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador while he was still a U.S. senator.

Japan Hedge Fund Sees Trump’s Policies Boosting Topix by 15%

Toshihiro Hirao, whose Japan hedge fund posted its biggest decline ever last year, sees relief ahead as he expects President Donald Trump’s policies to boost Japanese equities by the most in three years. Hirao, 52, who runs the Asuka Japanese Equity Long Short Strategy in Tokyo, is predicting that Trump’s pro-business agenda will help strengthen the dollar, stoking a 15 percent increase in the Topix index this year.

Trump Presses Priorities on a Congress Seeking Clarity, Details

President Donald Trump will press Congress to carry out his priorities for replacing Obamacare, jump-starting the economy and bolstering the nation’s defenses in an address eagerly awaited by lawmakers, investors and the public who want greater clarity on his policy agenda. Trump on Tuesday afternoon was putting the finishing touches on his first address to a joint session of Congress, and his spokesman was dispatched to the Capitol to deliver briefings on the major points the president intends to make in the speech, scheduled to begin at 9:10 p.m. Washington time.

New FCC chair vows ‘light-touch’ approach to regulation

The new Republican head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission promised “light-touch” regulation of areas such as the internet, a dramatic shift away from the Obama administration’s approach to telecommunications oversight. Ajit Pai, whom President Donald Trump named in January to chair the FCC, said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the agency made a “mistake” in 2015 when it adopted landmark “net neutrality rules” reclassifying internet service like a public utility.

A ‘complex moment’ – Mexico is looking to strike back…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly visited Mexico this week , where they met with the country’s president, Enrique Pea Nieto, and other senior officials. Mexicans’ ire with US President Donald Trump has been inflamed by his hardline stance on issues like immigration and border control, as well as by his administration’s inconsistencies on some of those policies.

Father of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen raid to Trump…

The father of William “Ryan” Owens, the Navy SEAL Team 6 member who was the first US combat death during US President Donald Trump’s presidency in January, urged the Trump administration to not “hide behind my son’s death” and provide answers. In an interview with the Miami Herald , Bill Owens, also a Navy veteran, called for an investigation into the raid that left his son, an eight-year-old girl, and as many as 29 civilians dead.

3 Global Factors Including Trump, Brexit That Could Smash Consumer Spending in 2017

Developed markets such as North America and Europe will be bogged down by slowing consumer spending in 2017, as debt, an ageing population and economic stagnation takes hold, analysts at market research firm Euromonitor International predicted in a new report. Euromonitor said that events such as Brexit and the “Trump effect,” as they called it, creates political instability that will be “a key challenge going into 2017.”

Trump announces he won’t attend this year’s White House…

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced via Twitter that he won’t be attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The announcement comes amid escalating tension between the White House press corps and Trump, who recently dubbed a number of mainstream outlets as the “enemy of the people.”

Warren Buffett praises a talented and ambitious immigrantsa in shareholder letter

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events It’s become an American tradition to parse billionaire Warren Buffett’s annual letters to his shareholders for nuggets of plain-spoken insight, wit and sometimes a dash of politics. In this year’s letter, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman brought up a familiar subject under Donald Trump’s presidency: immigrants.

Net Neutrality: Tech’s Next Big Fight?

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‘There is a word for that line of thinking: “un-American”‘ – …

‘There is a word for that line of thinking: “un-American”‘ – Jake Tapper slams White House for barring press from briefing CNN anchor Jake Tapper offered a two-minute take on the Trump administration on Friday after some news organizations were kept out of a press briefing. This is a “White House that has had some difficulty telling the truth and has seemed to have trouble getting up to speed on the basic competent functioning of government,” Tapper said.

Activists gave out Russian-style Trump flags at CPAC: ‘You…

As President Donald Trump began to deliver his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Friday, he was met with plenty of miniature Russian-style flags. The flags were embroidered with a gold “TRUMP” logo, in a font similar to what is typically used on products and architecture that bear his name.

Doubts grow over stock marketa s Trump-inspired surge

President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after he addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 24, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. While American stock markets have enjoyed a good run since Trump’s election, there are beginning to appear some concerns over whether the so-called “Trump Effect” will last.

Trump to Speak at Conservative Forum

President Donald Trump takes the stage on Friday at an annual conservative forum, looking to plant his personal stamp firmly on the political movement even as some activists fret his immigration and trade policies go too far. Trump will address the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, which has focused on how to fulfill long-held Republican goals to revamp the U.S. tax code, repeal federal regulations on industry and repeal former Democratic President Barack Obama’s healthcare law.

Poll shows Mark Cuban in surprisingly competitive position…

Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban would be competitive in a prospective presidential race against President Donald Trump, according to a new poll. The poll, set to be released Friday by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found that Cuban, if he were to seek the presidency and be Trump’s Democratic opponent, would trail the sitting president by a single percentage point.

The White House had a curious explanation for Trump describing…

White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to clarify an ominous phrase used by President Donald Trump on Thursday – but his answer left people scratching their heads instead. Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as “a military operation,” a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

Khanna says Democrats must be more “far more bold” at first town hall

Hundreds of people packed an auditorium at Ohlone College in Fremont on Wednesday night to hear freshman U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna speak on a broad range of topics at his first town hall event as a congressman. Khanna defeated fellow Democrat and eight-term incumbent Mike Honda on a campaign platform focused on moving the Democratic Party to a more progressive stance, and he pushed those same points to a receptive crowd Wednesday.

Trump Tower Protection Cost NY City $24M From Election to Inauguration

It cost New York City about $24 million to provide security at Trump Tower, President Donald Trump’s skyscraper home in Manhattan, from Election Day to Inauguration Day, or $308,000 per day, New York’s police commissioner said on Wednesday. The revelation prompted renewed calls for Congress to reimburse the city for the cost of protecting Trump’s private residence on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where his wife and their son continue to reside.

Trump admin lays out new approach to illegal immigration

In this photo taken Feb. 7, 2017, released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arrest is made during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. The Trump administration is wholesale rewriting the U.S. immigration enforcement priorities, broadly expanding the number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who are priorities for deportation, according to a pair of enforcement memos released Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017.