October 13th, 20230 On Thursday Israel and the White House condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel.
Trump, a former Republican president who is the front...
November 3rd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. District Judge in Chicago rejected a rule on Monday that was implemented by the Trump administration and aimed at denying Green Cards to immigrants utilizing food stamps and other public benefits.
The rule was rejected by Judge Gary Feinerman.
The Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, as...
August 21st, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) – On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security classified teachers as essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump administration presses schools nationwide to bring students back to class.
The move comes as new COVID-19 infections have fallen for four weeks in a row in Texas and...
July 30th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump once again went after what he calls "universal mail-in voting" fraud, calling foul play and even considered delaying national elections "until people can properly, securely and safely vote."
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But the U.S. Constitutions give...
March 13th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump faced one of the gravest threats of his political career as the coronavirus pandemic spread, leaving fellow Republicans to worry that the White House’s response and the hit to the economy would harm his re-election prospects.
U.S. stock market indexes that Trump has touted throughout his term as...
January 10th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander and Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes.
The resolution passed 224-194 along party lines in the...
December 5th, 20190WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that House Democrats must move swiftly to draw up formal articles of impeachment against President Trump. Democrats seem poised to push House votes as early as Christmas.
Pelosi warned that Trump would continue to corrupt the democratic process if left in power and that his...
October 30th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. counterterrorism official spoke at a House hearing on global national security threats on Wednesday to tell members of congress that a new leader of ISIS will eventually emerge, following the killing of Abu al-Baghdadi in last weekend’s raid.
AP reports that National Counterterrorism Center Acting...
September 29th, 20190NEW YORK/U.N. — Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has ruled out negotiations on its nuclear program with the United States so long as sanctions remained in place and said he was not interested in a “memento photo” with President Trump.
“I would like to announce that our response to any negotiation under sanctions is...
September 24th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — After several months of ineffectual investigations into President Trump's administration, including a report by special counsel Robert Mueller that seems to have landed nowhere, congressional Democrats are finally launching an impeachment probe against the president.
Democrats quickly switched their focus away...
August 26th, 20190Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious.
“If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, President Trump “would be lobbing accusations such as “Islam hates us” in the direction of Muslims and not...
August 23rd, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump beat back criticism of his comments accusing American Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty” and went a step further on Wednesday, saying any vote for a Democrat is a vote against Israel.
“I think that if you vote for a Democrat you are very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish...
July 20th, 20190President Trump said last Monday that the four democratic "progressive" congresswomen have to love our country or leave it. However, the word "love" is vague and is capable of many meanings. The Oxford Dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection for someone." Loving one's country can carry various things to...
July 8th, 20190BERLIN - Germany on Monday rejected demands by the United States to deploy ground troops in Syria, a stance likely to anger President Trump who wants Chancellor Angela Merkel to commit to a bigger military role in the Middle East.
“When I say the government envisages sticking to the current measures in the anti-Islamic State...
June 27th, 20190In a June 12 interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, President Trump freely admitted that he would listen to foreigners offering him “dirt” on his political opponents.
“I think you might want to listen,” Trump said. “There isn’t anything wrong with listening .... Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have...
June 7th, 20190Tehran — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran has no plans to give up its missile program and be deceived by President Trump's offer of negotiations.
Trump has condemned the nuclear deal between Iran and global powers signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama. Washington pulled out of this deal...
May 31st, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — Special Counsel Robert Mueller said on Wednesday his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election was never going to end with criminal charges against President Trump, but he did not clear him and indicated it was up to Congress to decide whether he should be impeached.
In his first public comments since...
May 24th, 20190LONDON — Iran will not surrender to U.S. pressure and will not abandon its goals even if it is bombed, President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, stepping up the war of words between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s top military chief said the standoff between Tehran and Washington was a...
May 17th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump said on Thursday he hoped the United States was not heading to war with Iran as he met with Swiss President Ueli Maurer, whose nation has served as a diplomatic conduit between the two countries.
Asked by reporters if Washington was going to war with Tehran, Trump responded, “Hope not” as he...
May 10th, 20190WASHINGTON, DC — On Thursday, President Trump urged Iran’s leadership to sit down and talk with him about giving up Tehran’s nuclear program and said he could not rule out a military confrontation given the heightened tensions between the two countries.
At an impromptu news conference at the White House, Trump declined to say...
May 6th, 20190WASHINGTON, DC - The Trump administration is deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling “indications and warnings” from Iran and to show the United States will retaliate with “unrelenting force” to any attack, national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. Though Bolton cited...
May 3rd, 20190LONDON — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all U.S. forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the U.S. government a sponsor of terrorism.
The bill was passed by parliament last week in retaliation against President Trump’s decision this month to designate Iran’s elite...
April 30th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, the White House said on Tuesday, which would bring sanctions against Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement.
“The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern...
April 29th, 20190NEW YORK — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif does not believe President Trump wants war with Iran, but he told Reuters on Wednesday that Trump could be lured into a conflict.
“I don’t think he wants war,” Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York. “But that doesn’t...
April 23rd, 20190OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTS - Israel said on Tuesday it would name a new community on the occupied Golan Heights after President Trump as an expression of gratitude for his recognition of its claim of sovereignty over the strategic plateau.
Israel captured the Golan from Syria in a 1967 war and annexed it, against international law. The...
April 12th, 20190WASHINGTON, DC — President Trump phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to congratulate him on his re-election, and Netanyahu said he thanked his ally for “tremendous support for Israel.”
Netanyahu tweeted that Trump had called him from Air Force One. The president was on a flight to Texas.
Netanyahu...
April 12th, 20190WASHINGTON D.C. — Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) cosponsors of the National Origin-Based Anti-discrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act. The bill, introduced on April 10, repeals the three versions of President Trump’s Muslim ban and intends to clarify and strengthen the Immigrant and Nationality...
April 12th, 20190RIYADH/WASHINGTON, DC — Egypt has pulled out of the U.S. effort to forge an “Arab NATO” with key Arab allies, according to four sources familiar with the decision, in a blow to the Trump administration’s strategy to contain Iranian power.
Egypt conveyed its decision to the United States and other participants in the proposed...
