WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a National Football League game on Sunday after some players knelt during the national anthem, a form of demonstration that began last year in silent protest against police violence toward racial minorities. Pence was attending a game in his home state of Indiana between…
President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday. (Photo: AP) WASHINGTON — President Trump tweeted new storm warnings Saturday, this time aimed at North Korea. In a pair of late-afternoon tweets, Trump wrote that negotiations with the truculent, isolated nation had…
US President Donald Trump meets with a bipartisan group of members of Congress at the White House, in Washington, September 13, 2017. (Photo by Reuters) US President Donald Trump is expected to “decertify” the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, while quietly encouraging Congress not to reimpose sanctions that could unravel the landmark deal, according to…
US President Donald Trump (right) and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu US President Donald Trump has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the bigger anathema of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Both leaders of Israel and Palestine are problematic; however, Netanyahu is the bigger problem, Trump said in a meeting last month with UN Secretary-General…
US military assault on North Korea could prompt a last-gasp retaliatory nuclear attack by Pyongyang on Seoul and Japan killing as many as 3.8 million people, according to a new analysis of the destructive potential of Kim Jong-un arsenal. Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that all options remain on the table – including the use…
President Trump, who has called the Iran nuclear agreement the “worst deal ever,” has signaled he will back out of the accord before an Oct. 15 deadline for certifying that Iran is complying with the terms—which U.N. inspectors say is the case. The 2015 agreement, which was approved by President Barack Obama, lifts international sanctions…
When the month began, a confluence of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and a brewing international nuclear confrontation already had some Americans thinking about End Times. Then Las Vegas, the nation’s playground, witnessed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history — the latest in this peerless series of catastrophes. Some were natural, some man-made. Together, they’ve…
The State Department ordered 15 Cuban diplomats Tuesday to leave the United States from its Washington embassy, a move prompted by the mysterious illness affecting U.S. diplomatic personnel and family members in Havana. The U.S. last week decided to cut its own embassy staff in Havana by similar numbers “to minimize the number of diplomats…
LAS VEGAS — A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 515 as thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo…
President Donald Trump stops to talk with reporters and members of the media as he walks from the Oval Office across the South lawn to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, Sept 29, 2017. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) President Trump’s often-controversial foreign policy pronouncements, which have generated…