Photo: Frigid temperatures strike U.S. Samantha Dement-Graham shovels her neighbor’s sidewalk on University Avenue in Dubuque, Iowa, on Friday, December 29, 2017. Blasts of arctic air have brought weather-related deaths, record low temperatures and historic amounts of snowfall to parts of the United States. (CNN) Out with the old, in with the record cold. With much of…
The United States is closer to nuclear war with North Korea than ever before, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday. “We’re actually closer, in my view, to a nuclear war with North Korea and in that region than we have ever been,” retired Admiral Mike Mullen said on ABC’s “This…
President Trump railed against “nuclear menace” North Korea and fumed at the reports China illegally delivered oil to the Hermit Kingdom, exclaiming “That wasn’t my deal!” during a wide-ranging interview Thursday with an outlet he’s long derided. During an impromptu talk with a New York Times reporter, Trump said his stance on trade with China has “been…
On Friday morning, CNN anchors were freaking out as President Donald Trump used the occasion of record-low temperatures on the East Coast to take a jab at global warming theory. On CNN’s Early Start program, co-host Dave Briggs repeatedly called Trump’s tweet “bizarre,” and CNN’s New Day also dealt with the story in the first…
President Donald Trump used the latest forecasts across the country to reject the notion of climate change due to frigid temperatures expected through the New Year. “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record,” the president tweeted Thursday night. “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old…
“There are many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with the regime’s corruption and its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo The White House on Friday night emphasized to Iran that the world…
The UN has approved a USD 286 million cut in its annual budget for the next year, a five per cent “historic reduction in spending” that the US said it had negotiated. The General Assembly on Sunday approved the regular budget of USD 5.397 billion for 2018-2019, the UN said in a statement on Tuesday….
Credit: AP ‘TAKING NAMES’: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, above, yesterday hailed the decision to slash the U.N. budget by $285 million days after the U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution declaring President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital ‘null and void.’ WASHINGTON — The United States…
Ronnie B. Levin spent 37 years at the E.P.A. working on lead exposure. She retired in November after what she described as months of low morale at the agency. CreditKayana Szymczak for The New York Times This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization. WASHINGTON…
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed the most consequential tax legislation in three decades on Friday, even as he complained that he has not been given credit for his administration’s accomplishments during a turbulent first year. Mr. Trump decided against doing a formal signing ceremony early next year because television news networks questioned whether he would…