Category: Donald Trump

10 Things to Know for Today

This Feb. 4, 2017 photo released by NBC shows Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump in the opening sketch of “Saturday Night Live,” in New York. With the return of John Oliver to HBO and Alec Baldwin’s guest hosting slot on “Saturday Night Live,” this is shaping up like a big weekend for late-night’s treatment of the new president.

The Accused viewers blast mother found GUILTY of cruelty

Britney Spears asks for ‘prayers’ for niece Maddie, 8, whose ATV flipped into pond trapping her underwater for several minutes despite her mom Jamie Lynn’s desperate attempts to free her Nordstrom bosses sent strongly worded memo criticizing President Trump’s Muslim travel ban to all staff TWO days before dropping Ivanka’s line British Speaker BANS ‘racist and sexist’ Trump from addressing Parliament but he had no problem with the President of CHINA Kanye West DELETES his tweets about Donald Trump ‘because he’s unhappy with the President’s choices’… after strongly supporting him two months ago Mystery as Columbia graduate, 23, is found dead on Panama island three days after she went missing during a trip to the beach Exercise is NOT key to weight control: Why you really do have to diet to trim your waistline – no matter how much you work out Nicolas Cage’s musician son Weston, 26, is … (more)

Making China Great Again

Passing the TPP is as important to me as another aircraft carrier,” said former U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter two years ago, as the negotiations on the huge new free trade organization were nearing completion. Given that the United States already has twice as many aircraft carriers as the rest of the world put together, that comment could be taken several ways, but Mr. Carter meant that the TPP was strategically important in his eyes.

Is Trump Tweeting From a ‘Secure’ Smartphone? The White House Won’t Say

For some time, the public has known that Donald Trump does a lot of his tweeting himself, from the account @realDonaldTrump, and from an Android smartphone. But many cybersecurity experts believed that would change once Trump took the oath of office, because White House-approved communication devices are much more secured – and stripped down – than the smartphones the rest of us use.

Trump’s presidency sees Swedish interest in US trips halve

New data from Sweden’s biggest airline ticket search engine shows that interest in booking trips between Sweden and the US halved following Donald Trump’s inauguration as President. Flygresor.se analyzed 2.5 million flight searches carried out on their website and app, focusing on the two weekends following Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, 2017.

Cybersecurity EO postponement: Lessons learned from immigration EO?

Mystery solved? The White House had announced that Donald Trump would sign an executive order on cybersecurity that would, among other new policies, move the executive responsibilities for the effort into the White House itself. The signing ceremony got postponed without much explanation, and it appeared that Trump and his team decided to take a little more time to mull over their new directives.

ETF Buyers Return to Precious Metals Amid Trump Policy Angst

Add the flap over U.S. immigration policy to investor concerns that are reigniting demand for precious metals as havens. Long-only exchange-traded funds backed by precious metals have attracted about $200 million this month, on course for the first monthly inflow since October, data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence showed.

Could supplier jobs move back to America?

Suppliers are waiting to see whether President Donald Trump will challenge the fundamental assumption that some auto parts can’t be profitably produced in the U.S., even with a 35 percent tariff. Products with high labor content, such as wire harnesses, small motors, cut-and-sew seat components and electronics, typically are produced in low-wage countries such as Mexico.

Military: First-known combat death since Trump in office

In this Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington. FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington.

This is the self-destructing smartphone that Trump probably isna t using

Over the past few days, some of the biggest questions about our national cyber security have centered on one device: President Donald Trump’s phone. Shortly after he reportedly traded in his main Twitter machine, an old-model, unsecured Android phone, for a “secure, encrypted device approved by the Secret Service,” the famously tech averse executive appeared to still be using the unsecured device.

Labour’s deputy leader spoke to the Co-operative Party Economic Conference in London

Labour frontbenchers who quit in a row over the party’s approach to Brexit should be back in top positions “within months”, Tom Watson has said. The deputy leader said the party must take a sensible approach to dealing with the deep divisions among MPs over triggering Article 50. At a conference in central London, Mr Watson said Britain must be open-minded about US president Donald Trump’s economic policies.

Rogue tweeters in government could be prosecuted as hackers

Who are the federal government’s rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes? The online campaign began with unauthorized tweets – on subjects such as climate change inconsistent with Trump’s campaign statements and policies – that have been mostly deleted from official agency accounts. It shifted tactics Thursday as at least 40 new but unofficial “alternative” accounts for federal agencies began spreading across Twitter.

Ng: Artificial intelligence in real life

ONE of the things that is particularly worrying to the BPO industry of the Philippines right now is the strong protectionist stance of the new US president Donald Trump. Apparently, he is zealous to make America first, and frowns on many attempts of outsourcing various manufacturing and service jobs outside the United States.

It turns out Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer are also registered to vote in two states

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, and President Donald Trump’s White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, right, arrive at a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington. White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, and President Donald Trump’s White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, right, arrive at a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington.

Border Patrol Chief Out Day After Trump Border Fence Decree

The Border Patrol chief has been forced out a day after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious plan to build a wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Thursday. Mark Morgan told senior Border Patrol agents about his ouster during a brief video conference on Thursday morning, saying he was asked to leave and that he decided to resign rather than fight the request, according to the official, who was on the call.

Top Forecaster Says Fed to Increase Rates Every Quarter in 2018

The Federal Reserve is about to go rapid-fire on interest rates, boosting them in the second half of this year, and following that with a rise in every single quarter of 2018, according to BNP Paribas SA, which expects the tightening to strengthen the dollar and push gold down toward $1,000 an ounce. The U.S. central bank is seen raising borrowing costs later this year given the fiscally expansive policies proposed by Donald Trump, and the new president’s agenda may help to lift wages in 2018, hoisting labor costs, the bank said in a Jan. 25 report.

Did U.S. President Donald Trump Declare Canadian Women the Biggest Threat After ISIS?

Following reports on 21 January 2017 that Canadian women were prohibited from entering the United States to join the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., a web site called BurrardStreetJournal.com reported that U.S. President Donald Trump called them a threat to the American way of life comparable to the Islamic State : Trump immediately characterized women North of the border as “different”, claiming there is “no doubt” they are trying to “corrupt the minds” of their American counterparts: “Canadian women threaten our core values, our way of life and the very things we are trying to do here,” the President began, in front of an estimated 10 million supporters gathered on the White House front lawn.