October 26th, 20180WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may send up to 1,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop a caravan of migrants, administration officials said on Thursday, as President Trump hammered away at the issue of illegal immigration ahead of the mid-term elections.
Trump’s threat was sparked by the advance of a...
October 26th, 20180WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday that would stop most U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) said on his website.
The bill said that President Trump could request...
October 16th, 20180President Trump said on Thursday that he saw no reason to cut off arms sales to Saudi Arabia because of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, possibly setting up a clash with the U.S. Congress.
Trump also said the U.S. may be closer to finding out what happened to Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi policies who...
October 6th, 20180WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans dismissed accusations of sexual misconduct against the conservative judge and delivered a major victory to President Trump.
By a vote of 50-48, the Senate gave a lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce...
October 6th, 20180President Trump said on Tuesday that he warned Saudi Arabia’s King Salman he would not last in power “for two weeks” without the backing of the U.S. military.
“We protect Saudi Arabia,” Trump said to cheers at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi. "Would you say they’re rich. And I love the King, King Salman. But I said...
October 5th, 20180Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman praised his relationship with Donald Trump after the U.S. president told supporters he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” without U.S. military backing.
“I love working with him. You know, you have to accept that any friend will say good things and bad...
October 5th, 20181From presidents Truman to Trump, U.S. administrations have never actually been an “honest broker” of peace between Palestinians and Israelis, regardless of all the rhetoric and official positions. On the contrary, the U.S. has provided tremendous diplomatic, economic and military support to Israel ever since its creation in...
October 1st, 20180The U.S. government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is part of a new American-Israeli strategy aimed at redefining the rules of the game altogether.
As a result, UNRWA is experiencing its worst financial crisis. The gap in its budget is estimated at around...
September 30th, 20180NEW YORK — A United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees received contributions of $118 million on Thursday, narrowing a budget gap for this year to $68 million as it aims to fill a shortfall left by a cut in U.S. funding.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),...
September 18th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump will make the final decision on the number of refugees allowed into the United States after consulting with Congress, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Tuesday.
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States proposed capping the number of refugees at 30,000 for...
September 17th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday,...
September 11th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration on Monday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO’s office in Washington would be closed for seeking to punish Israel through the court.
“The United States will use any...
September 7th, 20180The Trump administration has cut all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). Created after the 1948 war which displaced 700,000 Palestinians, UNRWA works in collaboration with local governments to provide direct relief and resources aiding economic reintegration. The agency provides food...
August 22nd, 20180Iran warned on Wednesday that it would hit U.S. and Israeli targets if it were attacked by the United States after President Trump’s security adviser said Washington would exert maximum pressure on Tehran going beyond economic sanctions.
A U.S.-Iranian war of words has escalated since Trump withdrew Washington from the world...
August 20th, 20180Why are banks asking about your citizenship?
Candidate Donald Trump rode his anti-immigrant rhetoric straight to the White House. Since then, he’s banned people from heavily Muslim-populated countries, taken children from their parents upon arrival at the Mexico border, is attempting to make citizenship status a question on the...
August 13th, 20180Iran’s Supreme Leader Sayyed Khamenei on Monday rejected President Trump’s offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the face of reimposed U.S. sanctions.
The Trump administration reimposed the sanctions last week after pulling out of a 2015...
August 6th, 20180Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a U.S. call for talks on Tuesday, the eve of the imposition of new sanctions that follows Washington’s decision to pull out of an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.
The United States is due to impose new sanctions against Iran on Tuesday intended to cripple its economy, implementing...
August 4th, 20180GAZA — Seventy members of the U.S. Congress are urging the Trump administration to immediately reinstate U.S. aid in order to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Israel has seized a boat and detained almost two dozen people as they were trying to reach Gaza by sea with a cargo of medical...
July 31st, 20180TEHRAN - The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday dismissed President Trump’s tentative offer of talks with Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic was not North Korea.
Trump said on Monday he would be willing to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out...
July 30th, 20181WASHINGTON - President Trump said on Monday he would be willing to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying, “If they want to meet, we’ll meet.
“I’d meet with anybody. I believe in meetings,” especially in cases...
July 30th, 20180U.S. BORDER — Around 1,400 children of some 2,500 separated families at the U.S.-Mexican border have been reunited with them, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday, July 26.
Government lawyers said 711 other children were not yet eligible for reunification with their parents in time for Thursday’s deadline, which...
July 29th, 20181Major-General Qassem Soleimani, a powerful commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, said on Thursday, July 26, that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the U.S. president as using the language of “night clubs and gambling halls.”
The comments by Soleimani, who heads the Quds...
July 29th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to documents released on Wednesday, July 25, the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protection for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua could worsen efforts to combat drug trade and gang violence, the U.S. State Department warned last October.
The senior Democrat on the...
July 13th, 20180WASHINGTON — For decades it was seen as too politically risky to criticize Israel, but this midterm cycle a growing number of Democratic candidates have begun openly criticizing some of its policies.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first-time candidate who upset 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley in last month’s Democratic...
July 13th, 20180GAZA — How can an artist capture the anger of a people when the most powerful politician in the world tries to discard their rights?
Mahmoud al-Moqayad may have succeeded in doing just that. After Donald Trump delivered a grave insult to Palestinians by announcing that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,...
July 6th, 20180
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration said on Thursday it would allow some 1,250 Yemenis to remain in the United States for at least another 18 months under protected status as war and a humanitarian crisis rage in their native country.
Yemenis in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be able to...
July 1st, 20180Japanese American protesters: What happened to us should never happen again
WASHINGTON/DEARBORN — Outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, many protesters held signs that read "No Muslim Ban" and "We Will Not Be Banned" as they protested the court's decision to uphold President Trump's travel ban.
However, in the process —...
June 26th, 20181WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination.
The 5-4 ruling, with the court’s five conservatives in...
