Fear of Protesters Prompts Cancellation of Trump Trip ■ The White House’s decision to call off a trip to Milwaukee rather than face protesters will quite likely embolden the burgeoning protest movement. ■ Jerry Falwell Jr., a foe of Obama-era higher education regulations, will head President Trump’s higher education task […]
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Trump Aide’s Deal With Chinese Firm Raises Fear of Tangled Interests Trump Aide’s Deal With Chinese Firm Raises Fear of Tangled Interests:- A secretive Chinese company with deep ties to the country’s Communist Party has become one of the biggest foreign investors in the United States over the past year, […]
Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court:- President Trump on Tuesday nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge in Denver, to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, elevating a jurist […]
Migrants Were Told to Sign Away Right to Enter U.S., Lawyers Say Migrants Were Told to Sign Away Right to Enter U.S., Lawyers Say:- Since President Trump closed the country to people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, immigration agents have wrongly told some travelers arriving legally that they must sign […]
What Trump’s Changes Mean for the National Security Council What Trump’s Changes Mean for the National Security Council:- President Trump announced on Monday that he would add the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to the National Security Council after critics questioned a memorandum released last weekend that also gave […]
Obama’s Protections for L.G.B.T. Workers Will Remain Under Trump Obama’s Protections for L.G.B.T. Workers Will Remain Under Trump:- The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. In a […]
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him:- President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday night after she defiantly refused to defend his executive order that has closed the nation’s borders to refugees and people from predominantly Muslim countries. In […]
Bannon Seizes a Security Role From Generals Bannon Seizes a Security Role From Generals:- The whirlwind first week of Donald J. Trump’s presidency had all the bravura hallmarks of a Stephen K. Bannon production. It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to “American carnage” in United States cities co-written by […]
Anti-Abortion Marchers Draw Inspiration From an Unlikely Source Anti-Abortion Marchers Draw Inspiration From an Unlikely Source:- Droves of men, women and children opposing abortion swarmed the National Mall on Friday in a demonstration that served not only as a rallying cry for their movement, but as a peaceful act of […]
In Private, Republican Lawmakers Agonize Over Health Law Repeal In Private, Republican Lawmakers Agonize Over Health Law Repeal:- Congressional Republicans, meeting behind closed doors this week in Philadelphia, expressed grave concerns about dismantling the Affordable Care Act on the urgent timetable demanded by President Trump, fretting that, among other things, […]
