Adegbite Adedotun

October 19, 2017

Chief of Staff Kelly defends Trump, slams Democrats Rep over untrue allegations

In the wake of criticisms and allegations surrounding president Trump’s interactions with “Gold Star” family members, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has lashed out at Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) on Thursday, saying he was “stunned” by her negative description of President Trump’s call to the wife of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger.... Read More

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October 19, 2017

Top GOP lawmaker announces resignation from the house

Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) reportedly announces resignation from his seat, as he plans to assume a role with the Ohio Business Roundtable, a business consortium, The New York Times reported. The senior Congressman, who was first elected to Congress in 2000, doubles as a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, leading its... Read More

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October 19, 2017

Sen. Bob Corker describes budget resolution as a hoax ahead of late Thursday voting

Controversial senator and fierce Trump critic, Sen. Bob Corker has berated the budgetary process, calling the Senate budget a hoax ahead of a key vote on Thursday after a marathon session of amendment votes known as a vote-a-rama. He equally bragged to dismantle the Senate Budget Committee, The Hill reports. “The only thing about this that matters... Read More

Bob Corker, budget, senate

October 19, 2017

Obama’s love letter to college girlfriend revealed

Some details of Former President Barack Obama’s past love life has been made bare as his personal letters to his college girlfriend are being publicly displayed at Emory University. In the first of nine letters written to Alexandra McNear between 1982 and 1984 while he was a student at Columbia University, in Indonesia, Obama wrote,... Read More

Alexandra McNear, barack obama, michelle obama

October 19, 2017

Jeremy Corbyn explains Labour’s Brexit plans at EU summit

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has declined to say he would honour the terms of a Brexit deal struck by Theresa May, if he succeeded her at Downing Street. Mr Corbyn was in Brussels at a pre-summit of centre-left European leaders and MEPs in Brussels, meeting three EU Prime Ministers and chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel... Read More

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October 19, 2017

Trump slams media for covering up Obama’s corrupt uranium deal with Russia

US President Donald Trump has slammed the media for not covering the impropriety involved in the US-Russia uranium deal which gives Russia a 1/5th of the American uranium reserve. “Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn’t want to follow!”, Trump tweeted. Uranium deal... Read More

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travel ban

October 19, 2017

Republicans to approve budget as part of tax reform efforts

President Donald Trump has said that the Senate’s scheduled vote on budget legislation is a “first step towards massive tax cuts,” but he is expressing cautious optimism on mustering the needed votes in the chamber. “Republicans are going for the big budget approval today, first step toward massive tax cuts. I think we have the... Read More

2018 fiscal budget, donald trump, senate

October 19, 2017

Spain set to block Catalonia’s right to independence

Amidst the ongoing secession uproar between the Spanish government and Catalonia, Spain under Mariano Rajoy has announced it will impose direct rule over Catalonia, after the region’s leaders failed to meet a deadline to withdraw a declaration of independence. The government will trigger article 155 of the constitution, thus empowering it to withdraw Catalonia’s right... Read More

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October 19, 2017

Mother of fallen Sgt Johnson claims Trump disrespected her son

The mother of Sgt La Davids Johnson, the fallen soldier who was killed in Niger said President Trump disrespected her son during a condolence phone call. Cowanda Jones-Johnson in an interview with the Washington Post confirmed Democratic Rep. Frederica S. Wilson’s claim of hearing president Trump on a speakerphone telling Johnson’s widow that her husband... Read More

Cowanda Jones-Johnson, donald trump, Frederica Wilson

October 19, 2017

Trump promised me $25,000 but… – Father of slain soldier

According to Washington Post, a grieving military father, Chris Baldridge, disclosed that President Donald Trump offered him $25,000 after his son was killed but the president didn’t follow through. Baldridge’s son, Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge, was killed in June during a suspected insider attack by an Afghan police officer. [Read Also] “He knew what he signed... Read More

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October 19, 2017

46% of Americans think the media is fake – Trump

Continuing with his unhidden distaste for the media, President Donald Trump says majority of the stories about his administration are fake and void of evidence. The President who regularly finds himself in the midst of controversies through his words and actions, referenced a Politico/Morning Consult poll that discovered that 46 percent of Americans believe the... Read More

donald trump, fakenews, Media

October 18, 2017

Hawaii judge blocks Trump’s latest travel ban

President Trump’s effort at a strict border and immigration policy has suffered another setback as administration’s most recent attempt to bar immigration to the United States from certain foreign countries was put on hold Tuesday by a federal judge in Hawaii, a day before it takes effect. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson, who blocked... Read More

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October 18, 2017

Trump chides Democrats for obstructing tax reform agenda

President Trump continues to call out congressional Democrats for their obstructionism of his tax reform agenda. Trump who makes no secret his disgust at the opposition and his dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in the Congress, chided Democrats for their preference of a tax increase, but believed all Senate Republicans will vote for his... Read More

Democrats, donald trump, Tax cuts

October 18, 2017

AG Sessions denies being interviewed during the Russia probe

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday denied before Senators that he was interviewed by the special counsel probing Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election which is headed by Robert Mueller, and declined to answer questions about his private conversations with President Donald Trump. The former Alabama Senator told the Senate that Until the president waives... Read More

donald trump, Jeff Sessions, senate

October 18, 2017

At least three dead, others hospitalised after Maryland shooting

Three fatalities have been recorded with two people seriously injured in a shooting at an office park in Edgewood, Maryland, on Wednesday. The incident occurred at the office of Advanced Granite Solutions shortly before 9 a.m. Major William Davis of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to reporters, while adding that the two wounded victims... Read More

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October 18, 2017

Fumes forces relocation of EU leaders submit in Brussels

In a precautionary measure, the EU said Wednesday it is moving this week’s leaders’ summit out of its new headquarters into a neighbouring building following chemical fumes which erupted from the kitchen sickened several people. As a result, staff were compelled to leave the building on Wednesday, in the second incident of its kind in... Read More

Brexit, EU building, Theresa May

October 18, 2017

Clinton warns Trump to stop threatening North Korea with war

Former U.S. Democrats presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned that threats to start war on the Korean peninsula were “dangerous and short-sighted”, thereby urging the United States to get all parties to the negotiating table. The former Secretary of State equally called on China to take a “more out front role” in enforcing sanctions... Read More

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October 18, 2017

Trump denies alleged statement to widow of fallen soldier

President Trump had denied the recent allegations by a Florida Democrats Congresswoman Rep. Frederica Wilson who claimed she overhead Trump telling the widow of Sgt Johnson who was killed in an ambush in Niger on October 4, that the special corps officer “knew what he signed up for”. Trump has, however, denied the allegations, branding... Read More

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October 18, 2017

Trump slams NFL for refusing to force players to stand for anthem

President Trump resumed his attack on the National Football League (NFL) on Wednesday after its leadership resolved not to force any player to stand during the rendition of the National anthem. The president who had hoped that the football league would take his side and clampdown on defiant players, got disappointed with the management’s decision. Though... Read More

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October 18, 2017

Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey accuses Weinstein of making sexual advances at her

British born Game of Thrones star, Lena Headey has joined the number of actresses, who have accused disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, of making sexual advances at them. • Her narrative Headey who plays Cersei Lannister in the popular series, posted a series of tweets narrating details of meetings between the two where Weinstein allegedly... Read More

Game of Thrones, Harvey Weinstein, Lena Headey

October 18, 2017

Sean Spicer interviewed in special counsel Mueller’s Russia probe

Erstwhile White House press secretary Sean Spicer, has been included as a subject in the ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election by special counsel Robert Mueller. Spicer was reportedly questioned by Mueller’s team on Monday as part of its probe. Spicer was interviewed about the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey... Read More

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October 18, 2017

“The best thing that ever happened to her” | Trump accuses Comey of protecting Clinton

President Trump has accused former FBI director, James Comey of drafting a letter which exonerated his fierce opponent and former Democrats presidential candidate in the last election, Hillary Clinton, from the then investigation into her use of private email servers during her time as Secretary of State. The president recollected the failure of Comey to... Read More

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October 18, 2017

“He knew what he signed up for” – Trump reportedly tells widow of fallen soldier

President Trump is about to be embroiled in another controversy as a Florida congresswoman, Rep. Frederica Wilson says the President on Tuesday made insensitive remarks to the widow of a U.S. soldier who was killed earlier this month in Niger when he was ambushed by militants believed to be linked to ISIS. In an interview... Read More

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October 18, 2017

“Freedom is from God and not government” | 5 things we learnt from Trump’s Heritage speech

President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night addressed the Heritage Foundation President’s Club on the importance of tax reform for the American people. In the brief address, Trump echoed some of his coveted agendas which have been the source of a tussle between the administration and Congress in recent times. Here are five things we... Read More

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October 17, 2017

“I fight back and it won’t be pretty” | Trump warns McCain

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a warning to Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, saying “be careful, because at some point I fight back.” According to Washington Examiner, Trump’s threat followed McCain’s jab at the presidency, mocking Trump’s #MAGA mantra after he received the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. • McCain berates the... Read More

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October 17, 2017

Trump’s fortune slides by $600m as Bill Gates tops Forbes 400

President Trump has seen his fortune dwindle by $600 million to $3.1 billion, according to a list of the 400 richest American billionaires released by Forbes magazine on Tuesday. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates retained his first place on the list for a 24th consecutive year on a net worth of $89 billion with Amazon’s Jeff... Read More

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October 17, 2017

I will not run in 2020, but will always call out Trump – Clinton

It appears President Trump’s hope has been dashed after former Democrats presidential candidate and his fierce opponent in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton said she will not run for president again but will stay involved in politics and continue to speak out against President Donald Trump. Clinton made the statement while Speaking to BBC... Read More

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October 17, 2017

Dozens killed as U.S. airstrikes hit ISIS camps in Yemen

In one of the over hundred airstrikes against AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), about 50 ISIS fighters were killed in U.S. military airstrikes in Yemen targeting two training camps in the country’s central region, ABC reports. One of the camps gained notoriety last week as the scene of an ISIS training video which... Read More

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October 17, 2017

Trump to visit Asia-Pacific countries in November

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to embark on a visit to the Asia-Pacific region from Nov. 3 to Nov. 14. Trump will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Philippines and Hawaii. During the 11-day visit, the president will ask U.S. allies to pressure North Korea on its nuclear program and also meet with Philippines... Read More

China, donald trump, Philippines

October 17, 2017

You are a “soulless coward” – NBA coach slams Trump

While the fiasco between the NFL and the presidency lingers, President Trump has again received a big lash from an NBA coach following a statement about former presidents. San Antonio Spurs Coach, Gregg Popovich, a vocal critic of Trump described the president as a “soulless coward” after the latter falsely claimed that President Barack Obama... Read More

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