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Trump Is Blaming Obama For His Embarrassing G7 Performance
Donald Trump’s flaws are only enhanced on the world stage when he’s next to world leaders who actually take their jobs seriously.
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Trump Tags Parody Twitter Account Of French President Emmanuel Macron In Instant G7 Fail
Donald Trump immediately made a fool of himself at the G7 Summit by tagging a parody Twitter account for French President Emmanuel Macron.
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While The Amazon Burns, Trump Is Tweeting About Dancing With The Stars
While the burning Amazon has sparked an international crisis, Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday night to tweet about dancing with the stars.
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French President Shows Trump What Leadership Looks Like By Declaring Crisis Over Amazon Fires
It’s time for the United States to have a president who recognizes the harsh realities of climate change and rallies the world to fight it.
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Trump Cancels Meeting With Denmark PM After Being Told He Can’t Buy Greenland
Something tells me that the prime minister of Denmark has more important things to do than entertain a juvenile president of the United States.
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Trump Keeps Obsessively Asking His Aides If He Can Buy Greenland
Time and again, we have seen that Donald Trump’s grasp of the U.S. presidency is similar to that of a third-grade student.
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Trump Trashes U.S. Military After Receiving Another Love Letter From Kim Jong Un
Time and again, Trump has shown that he is happy to sell out America just for the chance to buddy up with strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
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Trump Says He’s Cool With Kim Jong Un Firing Missiles: ‘I Have No Problem’
It’s pretty obvious that Trump didn’t care to ask South Korea what they think of their neighbors to the north firing off missiles.
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Malcolm Nance Issues Global Wake-Up Call: Trump Is Openly Helping Tyrants End Liberal Democracy
Trump’s behavior at the G20 Summit in Japan has made it blatantly clear that he is working to undermine and destroy liberal democracy.
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Trump Gushes Like A Lovestruck Teenager Because Kim Jong Un Follows Him On Twitter
Donald Trump gushed like a lovestruck teenager on Saturday because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un apparently follows him on Twitter.
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Trump Brushes Off His Own CIA And Defends Murderous Saudi Crown Prince At The G20
At home, Trump works tirelessly to undermine American institutions. Abroad, he alienates America’s closest allies and embraces murderous tyrants.
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House Dems Preparing Legislation That Would Bar Trump From Starting A War With Iran
- Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House of Representatives
As a result of the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive behavior toward Iran, the possibility of another war continues to grow.
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Ex-Bush Speechwriter Calls Trump The Weakest President In History
For all of Donald Trump’s tough talk, he has repeatedly shown himself to be the weakest president this country has ever seen.
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Mike Pompeo Broke The Law By Letting Trump Cover Up His Meetings With Putin
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may be trying to drag the United States into another war in the Middle East, but back at home, he is in new legal trouble.
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Rachel Maddow Busts Trump After He Blames Iran For Attack That Taliban Already Took Credit For
With each passing week, it becomes more clear that the president and his hawk-filled foreign policy team are eager to start a war with Iran.
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U.S. Sending 1,000 More Troops To The Middle East As Trump Marches America To War With Iran
Donald Trump and his lackeys have made it clear throughout the past several weeks that they are itching to start another war in the Middle East.
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‘Chills Down My Spine’: Ex-State Dept. Official Warns That Trump Is Taking America To War
As his presidency crumbles under the weight of scandal and incompetence, Trump is marching the United States toward another unnecessary war.
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Malcolm Nance Says Trump Committed A Crime By Inviting More Election Interference
- 2020, Donald Trump scandals, Editors' Picks, Elections, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, White House
Malcolm Nance warned that election interference in 2020 to benefit Trump will be much more widespread than the Russian attack in 2016.
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Rachel Maddow Warns That Trump Is About To Start A War With Iran For No Reason
Donald Trump – a man who campaigned against needless military conflict in the Middle East – appears hungry for a war with Iran.
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Chris Hayes Crushes The Laughable Myth That Trump Is An ‘America First’ President
Donald Trump has put himself first his entire life, from his career stiffing workers to his presidency selling out America.
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‘Unthinkable’: Mitt Romney Trashes Trump For Welcoming More Election Interference In 2020
- 2020, Donald Trump, Donald Trump scandals, Editors' Picks, Elections, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, Republican Party, Russia Scandal
Trump’s comments this week that he would welcome (more) foreign election interference in 2020 struck a nerve with some GOP lawmakers.
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‘It Is All A Lie’: Michael Wolff Busts The Myth That Trump Is A Master Dealmaker
Trump lacks the skills and intellect to accomplish anything substantive on the world stage, so he tries to fill this intellectual void with hot air and political theater.
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Meghan Markle Waited For Trump To Leave Town Before Making Another Public Appearance
Markle’s new public appearance makes it clear: she could have joined in the Trump-related festivities in London last week. She just didn’t want to.
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Arriving in Ireland, Trump says Brexit will be fine for the country
Donald Trump, arriving in Ireland for the first time as U.S. president on Wednesday, sought to reassure the country that Britain’s exit from the European Union would work out fine for its near neighbor.
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Rachel Maddow Slams Trump For Trying To Use The Irish Government To Promote His Golf Course
Other world leaders want nothing to do with Trump’s constant effort to use the presidency to enrich himself, his family and his businesses.
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‘What Does He Think He Is?’: Chris Matthews Destroys Trump For Bringing His Sleazy Kids To London
- Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump scandals, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, Ivanka Trump, White House
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews obliterated Donald Trump on Tuesday for forcing world leaders to “kiss the butt of his family members.”
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Trump Has Already Committed An Impeachable Offense During His London Trip
The impeachable offense Trump committed upon landing in London was just the beginning of what has been a disastrous trip to London for the president.
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Germany’s Angela Merkel Comes To America And Destroys Trump In Harvard Commencement Speech
The German chancellor slammed Donald Trump on border walls, trade wars, climate change and his erratic and unstable behavior.
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U.S. activist faces up to 20 years in prison for harboring migrants
An Arizona activist charged with harboring two undocumented migrants faces trial on Wednesday in a case likely to set a precedent over what aid U.S. citizens can give to illegal border crossers.
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Brexit brings down May, Johnson stakes leadership claim
Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit after failing to deliver Brexit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.
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GOP-led Senate ignores pleas for underfunded election cybersecurity which is ‘strained to the breaking point’
As the U.S. government prepares to defend the 2020 presidential election from cyber threats, the federal agency charged with helping administer elections, the Election Assistance Commission, says it is “strained to the breaking point,” according to Chairwoman Christy McCormick.
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China rebuffs Trump claim U.S. tariffs are making firms leave
BEIJING (Reuters) – Foreign investors remained enthusiastic about China, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that his tariffs are causing companies to move production away from the world’s second largest economy. Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that his tariffs on Chinese goods are causing companies to…
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Iran’s reach puts U.S. forces, allies in striking range
Threats of conflict between the United States and Iran have highlighted the places and ways their forces, proxies or allies could clash.
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Iran’s Rouhani rejects talks with Washington
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected talks with the United States on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump said Iran would call and ask for negotiations “if and when they are ever ready”.
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Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars.
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Fed up Canada tells U.S. to help with China crisis or forget about favors
In a sign of increasing frustration at what it sees as a lackluster U.S. response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling it could withhold cooperation on major issues.
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U.S. deploying carrier, bombers to Middle East in warning to Iran: Bolton
The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a clear message to Iran that any attack on U.S. interests or its allies will be met with “unrelenting force,” U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
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‘I Am With Him’: Trump Praises Kim Jong Un After North Korea Fires Test Missiles
Trump had previously bragged that North Korea was no longer firing test missiles because of him, even going as far as saying he prevented a nuclear war.
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Exclusive: Foreign government leases at Trump World Tower stir more emoluments concerns
The U.S. State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause.
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Judge Denies Trump’s ‘Unpersuasive’ Defense And Allows Democrats’ Emoluments Lawsuit
- Donald Trump scandals, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, The Resistance, U.S. House of Representatives
A U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Democrats in Congress can move forward with a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the law by accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments through his businesses.
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Former Defense Secretary James Mattis Admits He Repeatedly Ignored Trump’s Reckless Orders
- Donald Trump, Donald Trump scandals, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, White House
Not only do those around Trump not respect him and his ability to lead the country, but they often refuse to follow his dangerous whims.
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Iran says leaving nuclear treaty one of many options after U.S. sanctions move
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday it could quit a treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons after the United States tightens sanctions, while an Iranian general said the U.S. Navy was interacting as before with an elite military unit blacklisted by Washington. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the Trump administration…
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Trump Wants To Prosecute Former Obama Sec. Of State John Kerry
- Donald Trump, Donald Trump scandals, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, Trump Administration Scandals
The man whose campaign met with hostile foreign power officials and spies during the 2016 campaign just tried to accuse Democratic former Secretary of State John Kerry of possibly violating the Logan Act.
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Ecuador’s president says Assange tried to use its embassy to spy
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly violated his asylum conditions and tried to use the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a center for spying, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno told Britain’s Guardian newspaper.
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U.S. Senate bill to mandate disclosure of nuclear power approvals involving other nations
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators will introduce legislation on Wednesday mandating that the executive branch disclose details about authorizations it gives companies on sharing sensitive nuclear energy information with countries looking to build reactors. Lawmakers have criticized the Trump administration for issuing seven so-called Part 810 authorizations to…
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Iran decries ‘illegal’ U.S. designation of Guards, retaliates with terrorism listing: state TV
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran warned on Monday that Washington’s designation of its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization could endanger peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond, state TV reported. Tehran also took retaliatory action by naming the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) as a terrorist organization and the U.S….
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Trump threatens to close U.S. border with Mexico next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico “doesn’t immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States” from the region. Trump has repeatedly vowed to close the U.S. border with Mexico in the…
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Republicans and Democrats blast Trump’s cuts to diplomacy and foreign aid as dangerous for national security
By Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress rejected President Donald Trump‘s proposed cuts to diplomacy and foreign aid budgets as dangerous to national security on Wednesday, setting the stage for a budget battle with the White House. The ranking Republican on the House of Representatives subcommittee…
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Trump says all Islamic State land lost in Syria, but SDF says fight continues
PALM BEACH, Fl./BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) – Islamic State militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday, the U.S.-backed militia besieging them said, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the jihadist group had lost its last scrap of territory. “Heavy fighting continues around mount Baghouz right now to finish off whatever remains of ISIS…
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Trump Gets Schooled By Kim Jong Un And Drops His Demand That North Korea Give Up Its Weapons
The concession is an admission by Trump that he has already failed to accomplish the chief goal of his talks with Kim Jong Un.
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Trump says his ‘friend’ Kim has great opportunity at second summit
By Soyoung Kim HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet on Wednesday for their second summit, betting their personal relationship can break a stalemate over the North’s nuclear weapons and end more than 70 years of hostility. Despite little progress toward his stated goal of ridding North…
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Trump Melts Down Into Gibberish While Declaring Emergency For His Wall
In an unhinged and rambling White House appearance, Trump said that he is declaring a national emergency to build his wall while also ranting about a variety of other topics.
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Acting Pentagon chief reassures Iraqis after anger over Trump remarks
By Idrees Ali BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Acting U.S. defense chief Patrick Shanahan told Iraqi leaders that Washington understood its forces were in Iraq at Baghdad’s invitation, aiming to steady relations after President Donald Trump said U.S. troops were needed to keep an eye on Iran. Shanahan met Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi during an unannounced…
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‘Death to America’ aimed at Trump, not American nation, Iran leader says
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranians will chant “Death to America” as long as Washington continues its hostile policies, but the slogan is directed at President Donald Trump and U.S. leaders, not the American nation, Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday. “As long as America continues its wickedness, the Iranian nation will not abandon ‘Death to America’,”…
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Jared Kushner To Release Mideast Peace Plan Even Though He’s A National Security Risk
If there’s a good chance you’ve been compromised by international adversaries, you shouldn’t be in charge of running a key part of America’s foreign policy.
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U.S. general says wasn’t consulted on Trump’s Syria pullout order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military commander overseeing American troops in the Middle East told a Senate hearing on Tuesday that he was not consulted ahead of President Donald Trump’s surprise decision in December to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. “I was not consulted,” said U.S. General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. military’s…
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China urges U.S. not to withdraw from nuclear treaty with Russia
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The United States should resolve its differences with Russia through dialogue instead of threatening to withdraw from an important nuclear arms control agreement between the two nations, China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. The United States’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Washington would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range…
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Germany: World will be less secure without INF weapons treaty
“There will be less security without the treaty,” Maas wrote
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Senate Republicans Are Finally Realizing That Trump Is Unfit To Be Commander-In-Chief
- Donald Trump, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Foreign Relations/Policy, Republican Party, U.S. Senate
As Trump becomes more unhinged, Republicans in Congress are increasingly casting votes to take foreign policy out of his hands.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan Calls Trump’s Blind Arrogance A National Security Threat
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Brennan expressed his outrage at the president’s latest attacks on his own intelligence community.
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Netanyahu’s toughest ballot rival, ex-general Gantz, breaks silence
By Rami Amichai TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s toughest rival in Israel’s April ballot, a popular ex-general, vowed on Tuesday to pursue peacemaking and clean government in swipes at the premier, but did not rule out forming a coalition with him. In a long-awaited speech in which he broke his silence for…
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Trump slams U.S. intel chiefs after they disagreed with him re Russia, China and Iran
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday called U.S. intelligence chiefs “extremely passive and naive” on Iran and dismissed their assessments of the threat posed by North Korea a day after they contradicted his views during congressional testimony. Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate committee on Tuesday that…
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North Korea unlikely to give up nuclear weapons: U.S. spy chief Coats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons capabilities despite recent moves indicating it was open to such actions, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Tuesday. Coats’ assessment, in testimony before a Senate panel, clashed with President Donald Trump’s periodic upbeat assessments of North Korea’s commitment to…
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Bolton’s notes reading ‘5,000 troops to Colombia’ raise concerns about US intentions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House national security adviser John Bolton raised questions about the United States’ intentions in Venezuela after he appeared at a briefing on Monday with a notepad containing the words “5,000 troops to Colombia,” which neighbors Venezuela. It was not immediately clear what Bolton’s notes meant and whether President Donald Trump’s administration…
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Exclusive: U.N. expert to lead international inquiry into Khashoggi murder
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters on Thursday she will travel to Turkey next week to head an “independent international inquiry” into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post and a critic of Crown Prince…
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Trump’s Move To Nix Pelosi’s Afghanistan Trip Costs Military ‘Unfathomable Amount’ Of Resources
It can sometimes be easy to dismiss or even laugh off some of this president’s craziest rhetoric and policy decisions, but this is no laughing matter.
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Trump threatens Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks Syrian Kurd militia
By Daren Butler and Lesley Wroughton ISTANBUL/RIYADH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks a U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria, drawing a sharp rebuke from Ankara on Monday and reviving fears of another downturn in ties between the NATO allies. Relations between the United States and Turkey have…
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White House asked for options to strike Iran: WSJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House’s national security team last fall asked the Pentagon to provide it with options for striking Iran after a group of militants aligned with Tehran fired mortars into an area in Baghdad that is home to the U.S. Embassy, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The request by the National…
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Trump’s Bone Spur Exemption From Vietnam Was Just Exposed As A Massive Lie
Like so much of his business and political career, Donald Trump’s excuse for dodging military service was just another massive con job.
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Top Conservative Commentator Lays Into Trump For Calling Troops ‘Suckers’ During Photo-Op In Iraq
Donald Trump’s disastrous photo-op in Iraq on Wednesday demonstrated why he hasn’t visited any combat zone over the past two years.
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Top Presidential Envoy Leading ISIS Fight Quits After Trump Hung Troops Out To Dry In Syria
Trump’s decision in Syria put U.S. troops in more danger and further advanced the interests of American adversaries like Russia and Iran.
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Rachel Maddow Shows How Trump Is Letting Putin Run U.S. Foreign Policy
Rachel Maddow keyed in on how Donald Trump appears to be letting Russian president Vladimir Putin run U.S. foreign policy.
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Chinese state media urges Canada to defy U.S., free Huawei executive
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Canada should distance itself from U.S. “hegemonism” and grant unconditional freedom to Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of China’s Huawei detained in Vancouver on Washington‘s request, state-owned tabloid Global Times said in a Thursday editorial. Meng, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of misleading…
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Second Canadian missing in China after detention of former diplomat
BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is missing in China, a Canadian official said, days after Chinese authorities detained a former Canadian diplomat amid an escalating diplomatic row. His disappearance follows the detention in Beijing on Monday of former diplomat Michael Kovrig, who works for the International Crisis Group….
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Trump says would intervene in arrest of Chinese executive
By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene with the U.S. Justice Department in the case against a Chinese telecommunications executive if it would help secure a trade deal with Beijing. “If I think it’s good for the country, if I think…
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Republican senators, after CIA briefing, say clear Saudi crown prince culpable in Khashoggi’s death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Republican senators said on Tuesday they were more certain than ever that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was culpable in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after receiving a CIA briefing on the matter. “You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated…
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U.S. says confident North Korean promises will be fulfilled, despite weapons test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States remains confident that promises made by President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their Singapore summit will be fulfilled, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Thursday, after North Korea said it successfully tested a new tactical weapon. “We remain confident that the promises made…
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Trump’s summit no-show draws Asian nations closer together
By John Chalmers SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t make it to this week’s summit of Asian nations in Singapore, but his influence was still keenly felt among the leaders who gathered in the city. One prime minister warned that the trade war between Washington and Beijing could trigger a “domino effect” of…
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Canada’s Trudeau says he discussed steel tariffs with Trump in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he had discussed U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs with President Donald Trump over the weekend and that he hoped to reach a resolution on the matter by the G20 summit in Argentina. “I absolutely brought up the issue of steel and aluminum tariffs,” Trudeau…
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Trump discussed Khashoggi response with Turkey’s Erdogan: White House official
By Steve Holland PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed how to respond to the killing last month of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a White House official said on Sunday. The conversation took place during a Saturday dinner with heads of state gathered in Paris to mark the…
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With Trump sitting nearby, Macron calls nationalism a betrayal
French President Emmanuel Macron used an address to world leaders gathered in Paris for Armistice commemorations on Sunday to send a stern message about the dangers of nationalism, calling it a betrayal of moral values.
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Istanbul prosecutor says Khashoggi was suffocated in Saudi consulate
Istanbul’s chief prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday journalist Jamal Khashoggi was suffocated as soon as he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in a planned killing four weeks ago, and his body was then dismembered and disposed of.
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U.S. military receives Trump’s request for troops to protect border
The U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. military was examining the request that could require deploying between 800 and 1,000 active-duty troops to the border to assist with logistics and infrastructure.
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U.S. lawmakers consider bill to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday that would stop most U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Representative James McGovern said on his web site.
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Trump says Saudis staged ‘worst cover-up ever’ on Khashoggi
By Jeff Mason and Gulsen Solaker WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Saudi authorities staged the “worst cover-up ever” in the killing of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi this month, as the United States vowed to revoke visas of some of those believed to be responsible. Trump spoke hours after Turkey’s president, Tayyip…
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Russia pledges to act to ‘restore’ military balance if U.S. quits nuclear arms pact
Russia said on Monday it would be forced to respond in kind to restore the military balance with the United States if President Donald Trump carried through on a threat to quit a landmark nuclear arms treaty and began developing new missiles.
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Jared Kushner Says They Will Determine What They Want to Believe About Khashoggi
“We’re getting facts in from multiple places and once those facts come in, the secretary of state will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe, and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible,” Jared Kushner told Van Jones on CNN Monday.
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German foreign minister: U.S. should consider consequences of leaving nuclear treaty
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the United States should consider the consequences, both for Europe and for future disarmament efforts, of pulling out of an international treaty aimed at eliminating a class of nuclear weapons. President Donald Trump justified his decision, announced on Saturday, to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces…
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Putin Celebrates As Trump Abandons Treaty That Limits Russia’s Use Of Ballistic Missiles
Donald Trump is being played by some of America’s most dangerous adversaries, and it could have devastating consequences.
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Saudi Arabia says journalist Khashoggi died after fight in consulate
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday preliminary results of investigations showed U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after a fight with people he met there, state media reported.
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Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi died in consulate, fires two senior officials
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died, and said it fired two senior officials over the incident that has provoked an international outcry and strained relations between Riyadh and the West.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin withdraws from Saudi conference
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said he would no longer attend next week’s investment conference in Saudi Arabia. “Just met with @realDonaldTrump and @SecPompeo and we have decided, I will not be participating in the Future Investment Initiative summit in Saudi Arabia,” Mnuchin wrote on Twitter. (Reporting by Susan Heavey;…
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GOP Senator Crumbles Into Contradiction Trying Defending Trump’s Khashoggi Murder Cover-Up
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) tried to defend Trump’s cover-up of the Jamal Khashoggi murder only to end up contradicting and tying himself into knots on CNN.
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Lindsey Graham accuses Saudi prince of ordering Khashoggi killing
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican close to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of ordering the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and called him a “rogue crown prince” who is jeopardizing relations with the United States. Many members of the U.S….
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Turkey’s Erdogan says some material at Saudi consulate painted over
ANKARA (Reuters) – Some materials at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared two weeks ago have been painted over, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Speaking after Turkish police entered the consulate for the first time and searched the premises for nine hours, Erdogan also told reporters that they were…
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Calls Grow For Investigation Into Trump Whitewash Of Jamal Khashoggi Murder
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is calling for an investigation into Trump’s claim that “rogue killers” may have been behind the murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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JP Morgan and Ford cancel plans for Saudi investor event
JP Morgan & Chase Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon and Ford Motor Co Chairman Bill Ford canceled plans to attend a Saudi investor conference, the companies said on Sunday, the latest such high-profile announcements after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Trump claims U.S. would be ‘punishing itself’ if it halts Saudi arms sales
Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States would be “punishing itself” if it halts military sales to Saudi Arabia, even if it is proven that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the country’s consulate in Istanbul.
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With opinion split, tariffs are a tough sell in America’s Rust Belt: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Megan Davies NEW YORK (Reuters) – Politicians in America’s Rust Belt will likely struggle to capitalize on U.S. President Donald Trump‘s trade war in November’s congressional elections, with a September poll showing voters in the region are cool on the effect of tariffs. A Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center for Politics Poll found that a plurality of…
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Trump’s tariffs on metals costs Ford $1 billion, CEO says
Steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the Trump administration has cost Ford Motor Co about $1 billion, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday.