White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax:- President Trump’s decision to build a wall along the length of the United States’ southern border with Mexico erupted into a diplomatic standoff on Thursday, leading to the […]
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Trump Entering White House Unbent and Unpopular Trump Entering White House Unbent and Unpopular:- In one way at least, President-elect Donald J. Trump has already surpassed all of his recent predecessors. It took Barack Obama 18 months in the White House for his approval rating to slip to 44 percent […]
Trump Revives Defense of Charitable Foundation Amid Inquiry Trump Revives Defense of Charitable Foundation Amid Inquiry:- Donald J. Trump has renewed his defense of his charitable foundation, insisting on Twitter that all of the money raised by the organization has gone to charity even as the New York attorney general […]
Donald Trump Names Top Michigan Official to Senior G.O.P. Committee Post Donald Trump Names Top Michigan Official to Senior G.O.P. Committee Post:- President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday that Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, would serve as the senior official of the Republican National Committee, […]
Trump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope Trump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope:- President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, met on Monday with the climate-activist extraordinaire Al Gore, offering enTrump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental […]
Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world. […]
Obama Faults F.B.I. on Emails, Citing ‘Incomplete Information’ Obama Faults F.B.I. on Emails, Citing ‘Incomplete Information’:- President Obama threw the power of the White House behind Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. He faulted how the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, handled new emails related to the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private […]
Hillary Clinton Makes Pitch for Mandate and a Swing-State Sweep Hillary Clinton Makes Pitch for Mandate and a Swing-State Sweep:- Hillary Clinton entered the final phase of her campaign on Friday, working to ensure a victory that is decisive enough to earn a mandate for her presidency and a surge […]
How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy:- Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy proposals, like forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall or withdrawing from NATO, have drawn unprecedented condemnations as incoherent, contradictory and unrealistic. Yet for all the […]
Donald Trump Call to Monitor Polls Raises Fears of Intimidation Donald Trump Call to Monitor Polls Raises Fears of Intimidation:- Warning darkly of a stolen election, Donald J. Trump has called on supporters to turn out in droves on Election Day to monitor polling places, telling them they need to […]
