U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his government is trying to determine whether the coronavirus emanated from a lab in Wuhan, China, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Beijing “needs to come clean” on what they know. The source of the virus remains a mystery. General Mark
US President Donald Trump issued an apparent threat to adjourn both houses of Congress on Wednesday, citing frustration with legislators preventing him from appointing officials in his administration. The move, which would effectively be unprecedented in US history, would allow Trump to adjourn Congress and then appoint officials to his administration without the
US President Donald Trump will release guidelines on Thursday with steps to reopen the economy and return to normalcy. Trump said the country appears to have “passed the peak” with regards to new infections of the coronavirus, during a Wednesday briefing at the Rose Garden outside the White House. “While we must remain vigilant, it is […]
Washington – Cheques going out to U.S. taxpayers as part of a stimulus programme designed to help workers suffering as a result of the coronavirus will have President Donald Trump’s name on them, an unprecedented decision he seemed to relish. “I’m sure people will be very happy to get a big, fat, beautiful cheque and my […]
US President Donald Trump announced he was halting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, and accused the world body of failing in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. He said US taxpayers provide between 400 and 500 million dollars a year to the organization. However, it is unclear how Trump plans to halt the […]
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his government to give support to coronavirus-hit Italy, in a memorandum published late on Friday. “(Italy), one of our closest and oldest Allies, is being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Trump wrote in the memo. Although the U.S. government’s “first and foremost responsibility is to the American people,” helping Italy […]
Oil prices rocketed Thursday after US President Donald Trump said Russia and Saudi Arabia planned to end their price war by slashing output. But gains for Brent North Sea crude of nearly 46 percent cooled to around 20 percent as Russia denied it had spoken with Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest exporter of crude. NANS […]
President Donald Trump said on Sunday Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, “must pay” for their own security detail if they move to the US. “It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada,” Trump said in a tweet. “Now they have left […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told the public to stop panic-buying food and other supplies amid the coronavirus crisis, as his response to the outbreak came under fire. “You don’t have to buy so much. Just relax,” he said at a White House news conference. READ ALSO: Suspected COVID-19 patient in Enugu State tests negative […]
President Donald Trump announced late Friday that he was replacing his acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a shake-up in the top echelons of the West Wing just as the President confronts a growing public health crisis and girds for reelection. Meadows, who had previously […]
China reported a fresh spike in coronavirus infections on Sunday, as US President Donald Trump urged calm after the first death on American soil and Australia registered its first fatality. The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its highest […]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at the media for making the new coronavirus “look as bad as possible,” as his administration drew ire over response plans to an outbreak in the United States that health officials say is inevitable. Critical cable news channels like CNN “are doing everything possible to make the […]
READ ALSO: How ‘Parasite’ made its historic Oscars 2020 win The U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the historic best-picture Oscar win for South Korean film “Parasite,” telling a campaign rally he wished for the return of Hollywood classics such as 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.” “Parasite,” a dark social satire about the gap […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday expressed confidence that the border changes outlined by President Donald Trump’s peace plan could not be stopped, even if Trump himself was voted out of office in November. “Once the Trump plan is put forward, the goalposts will have been moved. “And it will be very difficult for […]
President Donald Trump objected on Tuesday to U.S. proposals that would prevent companies from supplying jet engines and other components to China’s aviation industry and suggested he had instructed his administration not to implement them. Read also: Nigeria – China trade not a win-win deal – MAN In a series of tweets and in comments […]
President Donald Trump has urged Russia to stop supporting the “atrocities” of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House announced on Sunday. Read also: Coronavirus: US to evacuate citizens from virus-infected cruise ship During a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump “expressed concern over
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump applauded his supporters and unleashed a volley of insults at his opponents on Thursday as he celebrated his impeachment acquittal in the Senate the previous day. “It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars and this should never ever happen to another president,” Trump […]
Washington – Senator Mitt Romney warned that he would face blowback from U.S. President Donald Trump after he decided to vote to convict the leader of his party on abuse of power in the impeachment trial. Within hours, the attacks started to come in. Trump posted a minute-long video in which the voice-over accused the conservative […]
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both articles of impeachment on Wednesday. The acquittal allows him to remain in office after Democrats failed to muster the two-thirds supermajority needed for the removal of the Republican president. One Republican senator, Mitt Romney, bucked his party line and voted to convict the […]
The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi has said that House will bring the NO BAN Act to the Floor to prohibit religious discrimination the United States immigration system and limit the President’s ability to impose such biased and bigoted restrictions. Pelosi speaking on the Visa restriction placed on Nigeria, Myanmar, […]
