Trump tweets: Calls CNN fake news again, says “leaker” must be found

A few hours before FBI Director James Comey is set to testify to Congress about alleged Russian involvement in the U.S. presidential election, President Trump on Monday morning again vehemently denied that he or his campaign had any involvement with Kremlin operatives in the run-up to the election. Trump referenced recent statements made by former... Read More

March 20, 2017

North Korea tests rocket engine on the last day of Secretary of State Tillerson’s visit

By Itunuoluwa Adebo Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s final day of his visit to North Korea was marked by North Korea claiming to have tested a new type of rocket engine, underlining the country’s defiance of recent calls for calm on the Korean Peninsula. The test came hours before Tillerson met Chinese President Xi Jinping,... Read More

March 20, 2017

Trump’s wiretapping claims: FBI Director Comey to testify on Capitol Hill

The unfolding drama of President Donald Trump’s claims that he was wiretapped by President Barack Obama 2 weeks ago reaches a climax today. The FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. Comey is expected to say that there was no wiretapping, debunking allegations that Trump has repeatedly refused to withdraw. We also... Read More

March 15, 2017

Spicer: Trump wasn’t referring to wiretapping in his tweets about wiretapping

By Itunuoluwa Adebo The White House on Monday had a new defense strategy, since President Donald Trump tweeted “wiretapping” in quotes, he didn’t actually mean wiretapping “I think there’s no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election,” White House Press Secretary Sean... Read More

March 13, 2017

China defends approval of 38 Trump Trademarks

By Itunuoluwa Adebo China on Thursday defended its handling of 38 trademarks it recently approved provisionally for President Trump, saying it followed the law in processing the applications at a pace that some experts view as unusually quick. Democrats in Congress were critical of Trump after the Associated Press reported Wednesday that the potentially valuable... Read More

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March 13, 2017

What surprises await Trump’s Russian Ambassador?

By Itunuoluwa Adebo We think that Jon Huntsman, if confirmed as Donald Trump’s pick for Russian ambassador, will have an overflowing inbox when he turns up for work in Moscow. Whether it’s hacking, missile deployments, Syria or Ukraine, there will be plenty of briefing papers awaiting Washington’s new man in Russia. Just as challenging for... Read More

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March 12, 2017

Washington braces as Trump looks to slash budgets

by Itunuoluwa Adebo Government agencies across Washington are preparing for what some say could be debilitating cuts to their budgets, grappling with that fact that President Donald Trump intends to make good on his campaign promise to slash the federal budget. Trump’s advisers say the cuts are meant to get a handle on the federal... Read More

March 11, 2017

Mike Pence continues to dodge wiretapping questions

By Itunuoluwa Adebo Pence dodged answering a question about whether he believed President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims. Trump who alleged on Saturday without evidence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. Reporter John Kosich during a press address asked the Vice President a Yes or No... Read More

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March 11, 2017

Unemployment down to 4.7% after Trump’s first full month

The U.S. economy added a robust 235,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.7% from 4.8% in the previous month. It’s a vast improvement from 2009, when unemployment peaked at 10% after the financial crisis. “The U.S. economy is doing very very well at the moment,” says... Read More

March 11, 2017

US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions fires 46 US Attorneys at once

The Justice Department announced the firings Friday afternoon, and many prosecutors had not been formally notified or even told before they were fired, according to a law enforcement source. Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente was in the beginning stages of calling each US attorney individually to tell them they had to resign when the... Read More

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March 10, 2017

China grants Trump 38 trademarks, reopens Conflict Of Interest debate

By Itunuoluwa Adebo China has granted preliminary approval for at least 38 Trump trademarks for businesses ranging from hotels and spas to animal training and weather forecasting, reopening a debate about the potential for conflicts of interest under his presidency. There was no evidence that President Trump received special favors from the Beijing government in granting the trademarks, experts said,... Read More

March 10, 2017

DC restaurant sues Trump’s hotel, claims unfair treatment

By Itunuoluwa Adebo How do you compete with a restaurant at President Donald Trump’s hotel down the road from the White House? Two Washington restaurateurs argue you can’t — and have sued him over it. The plaintiffs are Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross, who own Cork Wine Bar and Cork Market & Tasting Room. They... Read More

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March 10, 2017

Trump’s $1 trillion promise to deliver jobs? Not likely to happen this year

By Itunuoluwa Adebo President Trump’s pledge to create a program that funds $1 trillion in new infrastructure programs has kicked off with numerous meetings but few firm decisions, beset by under staffing, bureaucratic challenges and major questions about how to pay for everything. Trump promised in a February speech to Congress that a $1 trillion infrastructure rebuilding... Read More

March 10, 2017

Man jumps fence into White House, claims he’s a friend of Trump

By Itunuoluwa Adebo A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching security at the White House complex and was discovered by a Secret Service officer by the south entrance to the executive residence, officials said. The incident happened just before midnight while President Donald Trump was at the White House. The suspect,... Read More

March 9, 2017

The one woman who could derail Trump‘s presidency

By Itunuoluwa Adebo It’s not Hilary Clinton While he was running for president, Donald Trump had some not entirely kind words for Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Yellen, Trump alleged “should be ashamed of herself” for conspiring with Barack Obama to keep interest rates low and to create a “false stock market,” surprisingly, changed his view entirely. Now, there’s no reason at... Read More

March 9, 2017

2012 Republican presidential candidate to be Trump’s ambassador to Russia

By Itunuoluwa Adebo Former Utah governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to serve as the next ambassador to Russia, several senior administration officials told CNN. We know that if confirmed, Huntsman would become one of the highest-profile US ambassadors, helming the diplomatic mission to a country that... Read More

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March 9, 2017

Hawaii becomes first state to sue Trump over travel ban

By Itunuoluwa Adebo Hawaii has become the first state to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying the order will harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students. Attorneys for the state filed the lawsuit against the U.S. government in federal court in Honolulu. The state had previously sued over Trump’s... Read More

March 9, 2017

Trump vs WikiLeaks: A taste of his own medicine?

By Itunuoluwa Adebo With the recent release of classified documents by WikiLeaks, President Donald Trump now has to face the same spy organization he once praised. During the Presidential campaign, Trump cited several documents released by WikiLeaks about Hilary Clinton and the Democratic National Convention at his rallies, seemingly praising the organization. Err, we even... Read More

March 9, 2017

“I’ll blame democrats” | Trump tells conservatives his plan for dealing with healthcare failure

By Itunuoluwa Adebo In an Oval Office meeting featuring several leaders of conservative groups already lining up against the House Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, President Donald Trump revealed his plan in the event the GOP effort fails: Allow Obamcare to fail and let Democrats take the blame. During the hour-long meeting, sources... Read More

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March 9, 2017

Melania’s ratings trump Donald’s

First Lady, Melania Trump’s approval ratings appear to be better than her husband’s. According to a newly released CNN/ORC poll, Americans seem to be rating the US first lady higher than her husband, President Donald Trump. Her approval rating currently stands at 52 percent, an increase from the 36 percent before the inauguration of her... Read More

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March 9, 2017

Obama exasperated by Trump’s wiretapping claims

By Itunuoluwa Adebo President Barack Obama was irked and exasperated in response to his successor’s uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources close to the former president, though these sources say Obama’s reaction stopped short of outright fury according to CNN. Obama and his aides responded with disbelief when they learned of President Donald Trump’s Saturday morning tweets... Read More

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March 9, 2017

Criminal probe opened Into WikiLeaks Publications; Trump extremely concerned

By Itunuoluwa Adebo A federal criminal investigation is being opened into Wikileaks publication detailing alleged CIA hacking operations, the officials said the FBI and CIA are coordinating reviews of the matter. The investigation is looking into how the documents came into WikiLeaks’ possession and whether they might have been leaked by an employee or contractor.... Read More

March 8, 2017

Why Iraq was exempted from the new travel ban order

By Itunuoluwa Adebo Iraq was removed from the new travel executive order banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries after intensive lobbying from the Iraqi government at the highest levels. The pressure from the Iraq officials included a phone call between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on February 10 and an in-person conversation between... Read More

March 8, 2017

WikiLeaks: C.I.A. Is the real Big Brother

By Itunuoluwa Adebo In what appears to be the largest leak of C.I.A documents in history, Wikileaks released on Tuesday thousands of pages describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into computers, smartphones, and even Internet-connected televisions. The documents amount to a detailed, highly technical catalog of tools. They include... Read More

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March 8, 2017

Trump says it will cost just a “little” to build his wall

By Itunuoluwa Adebo The Trump administration is planning to ask for a relatively small amount of money to start building the President’s long-promised border wall this year far short of estimates of what the wall might cost. Despite the President’s repeated calls to begin building immediately the substantive wall along the entire Southern border, which... Read More

March 8, 2017

“We are getting along great” | Trump insists it’s one big party inside the White House

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has stated that contrary to the news making rounds, there is no infighting in his administration. Taking to his Twitter handle as always, Trump wrote, “Don’t let the FAKE NEWS tell you that there is big infighting in the Trump Admin. We are getting along great, and... Read More

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March 8, 2017

Trump is destroying his office 140 characters at a time – Senator Durbin

By Itunuoluwa Adebo We didn’t say so, he did! Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin has said that President Donald Trump’s Twitter usage is “destroying” the credibility of the office of the President 140 characters at a time. The Democrat told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.” “This charge that he has made about some wiretapping... Read More

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March 8, 2017

US Congressmen blast new travel ban, call it Muslim Ban 2.0

By Itunuoluwa Adebo The two Muslim members of Congress swiftly blasted President Donald Trump’s new version of the travel ban as still targeting Muslim-majority countries ,raising the critical issue which stalled the first ban in court. “Here we go again…Muslim Ban 2.0 #NoBanNoWall,” tweeted Democratic Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, the second Muslim elected to... Read More

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March 7, 2017

Trump Tweets: Another terrible Obama decision

Mr Trump seems to be on a roll this week, but when isn’t he? In the wake of the wire-tapping allegations against Obama in a tweet over the weekend, Twitter’s most active president isn’t done. He tweeted “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible... Read More

March 7, 2017

4 things to know about Trump’s new travel ban

So Donald Trump has signed a new immigration order and it’s been met by expected opposition and criticism, but here are the 4 main things we’ve gleamed from Travel Ban 2.0. The new ban takes effect from March 16. Iraq has been removed from the list of affected countries. The affected countries are Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia,... Read More

Trump tweets: Calls CNN fake news again, says “leaker” must be found

North Korea tests rocket engine on the last day of Secretary of State Tillerson’s visit

Trump’s wiretapping claims: FBI Director Comey to testify on Capitol Hill

Spicer: Trump wasn’t referring to wiretapping in his tweets about wiretapping

China defends approval of 38 Trump Trademarks

What surprises await Trump’s Russian Ambassador?

Washington braces as Trump looks to slash budgets

Mike Pence continues to dodge wiretapping questions

Unemployment down to 4.7% after Trump’s first full month

US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions fires 46 US Attorneys at once

China grants Trump 38 trademarks, reopens Conflict Of Interest debate

DC restaurant sues Trump’s hotel, claims unfair treatment

Trump’s $1 trillion promise to deliver jobs? Not likely to happen this year

Man jumps fence into White House, claims he’s a friend of Trump

The one woman who could derail Trump‘s presidency

2012 Republican presidential candidate to be Trump’s ambassador to Russia

Hawaii becomes first state to sue Trump over travel ban

Trump vs WikiLeaks: A taste of his own medicine?

“I’ll blame democrats” | Trump tells conservatives his plan for dealing with healthcare failure

Melania’s ratings trump Donald’s

Obama exasperated by Trump’s wiretapping claims

Criminal probe opened Into WikiLeaks Publications; Trump extremely concerned

Why Iraq was exempted from the new travel ban order

WikiLeaks: C.I.A. Is the real Big Brother

Trump says it will cost just a “little” to build his wall

“We are getting along great” | Trump insists it’s one big party inside the White House

Trump is destroying his office 140 characters at a time – Senator Durbin

US Congressmen blast new travel ban, call it Muslim Ban 2.0

Trump Tweets: Another terrible Obama decision

4 things to know about Trump’s new travel ban

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