Новости за 03.09.2017

Not every campaign promise is worth keeping. But to please his base, Donald Trump may be about to scrap the main trade pact between the United States and South Korea, the first bilateral treaty he will have terminated as President. Smart? No. Not now, probably not ever. Isn’t this the very moment when we should […]

You can take Donald Trump out of the reality show, but it seems you can’t take the reality show mentality out of Donald Trump. And we are seeing it again with how President Trump has been despicably building drama over his expected decision on whether to end or phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood […]

The Trump administration wants federal spending on Hurricane Harvey relief efforts to be tied to raising the debt limit. “Without raising the debt limit, I’m not comfortable that we will get the money that we need this month to Texas to rebuild,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Fox News Sunday. “That’s our priority. We […]

US Defense Secretary James Mattis vowed “a massive military response” to any threat from North Korea against the United States or its allies in a statement outside the White House after a meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and top national security advisers Sunday. Mattis said Trump wanted to be briefed on […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been trading blows with her election rival Martin Schulz in a live TV debate three weeks before the country’s federal election. The pair sparred over the right course of action in North Korea, following today’s nuclear bomb test. President Donald Trump “is not the right person to solve this conflict,” […]

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a state of emergency for Los Angeles County Sunday due to the ongoing La Tuna brush fire near Burbank. Since the fire started Friday, it has burned more than 5,895 acres, forced residents to evacuate from their homes, shut down an interstate and sent massive plumes of smoke into the […]

Gas prices continue to rise more than a week after Harvey knocked the Gulf Coast oil refining industry offline. But the increase has started to slow. The national average price for a gallon of regular is up 26 cents in the last week, after moving up 3 cents overnight on Sunday to $2.621, according to […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that his state was going to need a massive commitment from the federal government as it begins to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. “Let’s not compare it to Sandy. Let’s compare it to Katrina,” Abbott said. Abbott said the recovery […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that his state was going to need a massive commitment from the federal government as it begins to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. “Let’s not compare it to Sandy. Let’s compare it to Katrina,” Abbott told CNN’s Dana Bash. Abbott […]

Following North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test, one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics expressed confidence in Trump’s team, but not the commander in chief himself. Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that Trump, like most new presidents, was inexperienced in foreign policy, adding […]

There are some journalists and politicians who hope that the one bright spot from the disaster of Hurricane Harvey will be a shift to better politics this coming fall. Writing for the New York Times, Carl Hulse makes a strong case that the hurricane “utterly transformed the federal fiscal picture” since Congress must now focus […]

The Italian fans’ seven-year wait for a Ferrari victory at Monza continues, after Lewis Hamilton cruised to victory in the sun to take the overall championship lead from Sebastian Vettel. With the conditions a far cry from yesterday’s wet and blustery qualifying, it was a perfect afternoon for Mercedes who crossed the line with Hamilton, […]

During his final moments in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama folded into thirds a handwritten letter to Donald Trump, slid it into an envelope, and in neat capital letters addressed it to “Mr. President.” Now, the contents of that letter — the last direct communication between the 44th and 45th presidents — have emerged […]

Central Frankfurt looked like a ghost town Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated ahead of a bomb disposal operation in the German city. Around 60,000 people have been forced to leave their homes while authorities defuse a massive World War II bomb discovered buried at a construction site. The process of defusing […]

President Donald Trump condemned North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb in a series of tweets Sunday morning, calling Pyongyang’s words and actions “hostile and dangerous” and saying “talk of appeasement will not work.” “North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to […]

1. Harvey knocks out America’s refineries: As the skies clear in Texas and Louisiana, Americans are left to assess the damage done by one of the most — if not the most — expensive natural disasters in U.S. history. The storm served a blow to America’s energy hub. Several key refineries and production facilities closed, […]

President Donald Trump is in for a bumpy political ride when Congress reconvenes after Labor Day. A remarkable number of leaders of the President’s party have begun sharply criticizing Trump, signaling that he can no longer expect lawmakers to follow the White House’s lead on major legislation. The latest blast from Sen. John McCain of […]

North Korea’s regime has “succeeded in making a more developed nuke,” according to the country’s state news agency. The Korean Central News Agency described it as a “nuke” in its English-language report, but called it a “thermonuclear hydrogen bomb” in the Korean version. During a visit to the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute, North Korean leader […]

Houston’s mayor Saturday ordered nearly 300 people to leave their flooded homes, and another large city scrambled to restore water service as President Donald Trump visited flood victims and relief workers in Texas and Louisiana eight days after Hurricane Harvey struck. In Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner said people who had chosen to stay in inundated […]

When a disaster like Harvey strikes, I often see glimpses of the world I first knew. One of the things I remember most clearly about my childhood in rural Georgia was the notion that neighbors were more than just the folks who lived next door or down the road. Neighbors were people you could count […]

Workers in the Texas city of Beaumont on Saturday scrambled to restore water service eight days after deadly Hurricane Harvey struck, as President Trump visited flood victims and relief workers in Texas and Louisiana. While floodwaters are receding, Beaumont, a city of 118,000 east of Houston, still was dealing with floods well above record stage […]

A U.S. chip manufacturer is asking President Trump to override a national security committee — which is looking to halt a proposed takeover of Lattice Semiconductors by a private equity firm that has ties to China. The deal puts Trump in the middle of a hot-button issue: Chinese investment in the United States. The Committee […]

A U.S. chip manufacturer is asking President Trump to override a national security committee — which is looking to halt a proposed takeover of Lattice Semiconductors by a private equity firm that has ties to China. The deal puts Trump in the middle of a hot-button issue: Chinese investment in the United States. The Committee […]

President Trump visited Texas and Louisiana on Saturday as floodwaters receded in some parts of the storm-ravaged area. But the situation remained grim in Beaumont. As the city of 118,000 east of Houston struggled without power or clean running water, fears of more flooding from the Neches River led authorities to evacuate about 1,000 people […]