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German police have detained four suspected Islamists during a raid in Berlin on Wednesday as the capital gears up for several mass events on the weekend, including a joint appearance by Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US president Barack Obama. The early morning operation was aimed against a gang of armed drug traffickers, police said. […]
AP Photo/Cliff Owen Former president Barack Obama’s upcoming speech to investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald has caught the eye of US lawmakers — particularly for the six-figure payment Obama is receiving for the appearance. At least one lawmaker suggested Congress may evaluate Obama’s presidential pension because of it. House Oversight and Government Reform chair Jason Chaffetz […]
AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump is poised to eviscerate his predecessor’s legacy on climate change with executive actions as early as this week, even though the world is throwing up increasingly alarming signs of dangerous warning and key parts of the administration keep flagging climate change as a key national security challenge. Trump will […]
Published time: 10 Mar, 2017 04:08 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not ruling out an independent investigation of the Department of Justice under the Obama administration. Sessions expressed an openness to a third-party investigation of the DOJ under Attorney General Eric Holder and his successor Loretta Lynch in an interview with conservative radio host […]
Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP President Donald Trump has been trashing the economy and his predecessor’s legacy lately. For example, in his free-wheeling Feb. 16 press conference, Trump said he “inherited a mess” from President Barack Obama. His newly minted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin followed suit a week later by telling the Wall Street […]
AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Trump will likely take a first step toward dismantling Obama’s environmental legacy today, fulfilling a promise to go after the 2015 Waters of the United States rule. Trump is expected to sign an executive order February 28 that will instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to begin the process of reviewing and rewriting the rule. […]
Democrats have voted for former US Labor Secretary Tom Perez to navigate the party out of a “crisis of relevance” after the shocking defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Perez won over progressive Keith Ellison on the second ballot. Perez got votes of 235 out of 435 members of the Democratic National Committee […]
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly issued new guidance on Tuesday outlining how his department will enforce President Donald Trump’s order to crack down on immigration. The goal is not “mass deportation” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer explained, but to eliminate exceptions President Barack Obama’s administration allowed to keep immigrants who weren’t a threat from […]
. REUTERS/Larry Downing/Files From one angle, former President Barack Obama was the most merciful president in U.S. history, granting commutations to more than 1,700 federal prisoners. As a president who took issue broadly with the country’s incarceration rate, he viewed clemency as way he could push back, writing last month in the Harvard Law Review […]
Reuters/Carlos Barria In a statement on Sunday, President Donald Trump defended his executive order temporarily barring nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries by invoking a policy set by former President Barack Obama in 2011. “My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months,” […]
