President Donald Trump’s administration has banned cameras from the daily press briefing at the White House. However, the resourceful US media are undaunted as they deployed sketch artists to cover the event. Cable news channel CNN sent sketch artist Bill Hennessy to the famous West Wing press room, a change from the American courtrooms where […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director. The recant came after suggesting last month he might have recordings that could damage Comey. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, […]
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading the effort to bring together companies, universities and local and state government to submit a plan to the United Nations pledging to meet the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets outlined in the Paris agreement. “We’re going to do everything America would have done if it had […]
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During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump of the United States described the climate change agreement signed in 2015 as a “massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries”, thereby pulling the US out of it. Recall that in the buildup to his election, Trump had promised to withdraw from the deal. […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a waiver to delay relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the White House said. With this move Trump has avoided a step that would have complicated his efforts to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. During the build up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Trump […]
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Germany’s foreign minister launched a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Monday, claiming the U.S. President’s actions have “weakened” the West and accusing the U.S. government of standing “against the interests of the European Union.” Just 24 hours after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Europe could no longer completely rely on traditional allies such […]
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Andrew McCabe, acting FBI head, contradicted President Donald Trump’s appraisal of turmoil at the agency under James Comey, the man the president sacked on Tuesday. McCabe said there was nothing like that and went on to praise Comey’s professional integrity. “I can tell you also that Director Comey enjoyed broad support within the FBI and still does to this […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States of America, has sacked FBI Director James Comey amid the bureau’s investigation into members of the president’s campaign and his former national security adviser. The immediate reason, however, was Comey’s adamant position that there was no basis to charge Hillary Clinton over her email investigation. In a statement released […]
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Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party in the 2016 Presidential Election in the U.S., has blamed her loss on negative events late in the campaign, including an FBI investigation. She also fingered “Russia-linked hacking” of her campaign for the defeat by President Donald Trump of the Republican Party. In New York on Tuesday, Clinton said she was […]
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A San Francisco judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants. The ruling from District Judge William Orrick III said Trump’s order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary governments and that plaintiffs challenging the order were likely to succeed in […]
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