By Jeffrey Rodack From Newsmax Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, said he ordered obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving Donald Trump and his ties to Russia, shortly after the president fired James Comey as director of the agency in 2017, CBS News is reporting. McCabe’s comments came during an interview for “60 […]
The global economy is living dangerously – but don’t expect superpowers to follow the 2008 script
January 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
By Ben Chu, The Independent From Business Insider Twelve months ago, the global economic outlook was encouraging. Now things are looking far less rosy. US growth is expected to slow from 2.9 percent in 2018 to 2.5 percent in 2019, as the stimulus from Donald Trump’s unfunded tax cuts wears off. Stock markets have also […]
Amphibian that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump
December 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
From BBC US presidents tend to receive their fair share of honours, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one. A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after him, apparently in response to his comments about climate change. The Dermophis donaldtrumpi, which was discovered in Panama, […]
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agree to trade truce, no additional tariffs, China state media says
December 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Zhou Xin From South China Morning Post US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agree to a trade truce in their dinner meeting Saturday Deal includes no trade tariffs after January 1, according to Chinese state media China Daily and Chinese international broadcaster CGTN both said Trump and Xi agreed to not […]
10 Terrible reasons why people don’t vote
October 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Laura Goldman From Care2 In the past five presidential election years, more than one-third of voting-age Americans didn’t bother to cast a ballot. In fact, only 65 percent of Americans are registered to vote. When comparing voter turnout rates among 35 developed democracies, the United States ranked 27th. Unfortunately, the reasons people commonly give […]
Melania Trump in Africa
October 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Melania Trump carves solo path in Africa visit By AFP From This Is Money UK Melania Trump, who hosted the spouses of foreign leaders during the UN General Assembly, is making her first big solo international trip — to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt Melania Trump leaves Washington — and her husband’s shadow — Monday […]
Why does Betsy D family yacht fly a foreign flag? Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ administration and the Cayman Islands
August 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
BY DAVID SIROTA From Newsweek This story is being co-published with Capital&Main When someone untied a yacht owned by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s family, the episode was portrayed as an example of anti-Trump harassment. But the yacht’s foreign flag illustrated how an allegedly “America First” administration is full of moguls who have stashed […]
US City of Fear
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This story is a collaboration with The Marshall Project. From New York Mag 20,000 of New York’s immigrants have been identified for deportation since Trump took office. The rest worry they’ll be next. An estimated half a million New Yorkers are undocumented. Whether they’ve lived here for two months or 20 years, they came to this […]
Putin hedges Trump bet by dumping Treasuries to safeguard assets
July 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
From Newsmax Russian officials are hoping Vladimir Putin’s rapport with Donald Trump will lead to rapprochement with the U.S. But they’re not taking any chances. A U.S. Treasury report this week appears to show Russia liquidating dollar assets at a record pace, selling four-fifths of its cache of U.S. government debt, $81 billion worth, over […]
OPINION: A monster of a President?
June 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Ewin James How does a man become a monster, if men can become monsters ? How does an ordinary man, with the virtues and vices of other men become the worst person on earth so that to protect people from him he must be removed from his place of influence? Does he go to […]
