The Trump administration has said it was "officially putting Iran on notice" on Wednesday, in reaction to a Iranian missile test and an attack on a Saudi warship by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, but gave no details about how Washington intended to respond.
Judge Neil Gorsuch will make his first trip to Capitol Hill as President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court Wednesday morning, where a sharply divided Senate will decide his fate in the coming months. Accompanied by Vice President Pence, Gorsuch will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Crowds have gathered in Myanmar's commercial capital to pay tribute to a leading lawyer shot dead on Sunday, as the ruling party described him as "irreplaceable". Ko Ni, who was an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was shot in the head at Yangon airport.
Updated January 26, 2017 20:08:08 Rescuers have pulled the last two dead bodies from the wreckage of a hotel in central Italy hit by an avalanche last week, raising the final death toll to 29. Firefighters issued the update early on Thursday after a week of search efforts at the isolated Hotel Rigopiano in central Italy.
This sensible change in focus, for as long as it might endure, provides an opportunity to contemplate what else may be possible regarding immigration policy during the next four years.
In his first one-on-one interview since being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that Mexico would be paying for the proposed border wall and that negotiations between the two nations would begin "relatively soon."
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WASHINGTON - President Trump will order the construction of a Mexican border wall on Wednesday, White House officials said, and is mulling plans to stop Syrian refugees from entering the country and to slash immigration of refugees from "terror prone" nations, perhaps as early as this week.
It admittedly seems odd to ask Americans to evaluate the performance of a new president a few days after he took office. It's like getting a performance review on your first week at a new job: Sure, you can do it, but it's probably not going to really lay good groundwork forhttp://pbump.net/post/pop/index.php what to expect.
President Trump is planning to sign executive orders on Wednesday toughening immigration enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation, part of a multi-day rollout of his long-promised crackdown on illegal immigration, officials familiar with the decision said Tuesday.
Ms. Merkel realizes that right-wing populists are on the rise across Europe, threatening the existing liberal order. And at the very moment the West goes through a severe identity crisis, Mr. Trump, an expression of that crisis, has removed the possibility that the United States can act as a democratic example or a possible savior.
Senior Associate, Middle East Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Six year after its democratic revolution in January 25, 2011, Egypt's political realities are back at square one. Once again, a military officer has been installed in the presidential palace after an election that lacked any measure of democratic competition.
President Trump has narrowed his choices for the Supreme Court, consulted with congressional leaders and says he will announce a nominee next week. Trump has said he will choose from a list of 21 possibilities released during the campaign, and sources involved in the process say a handful of federal appeals court judges have emerged at the top: William Pryor of the U.S.
A manager at Russia's biggest cybersecurity firm in charge of investigating hacking attacks has been arrested, the company has said. Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday confirmed reports in Russia's respected Kommersant newspaper that Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of its computer incidents investigations unit, was arrested in December.
Democrats remain bitter over the refusal of Republicans to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland, and they say they will mount a furious opposition to any candidate out of the legal mainstream.
It's the final day of the Syrian peace negotiations, and the latest moves toward ending the bloody, six-year civil war -- or at least consolidating a fragile ceasefire -- are being announced. On one side of the city's main thoroughfare, the Rixos President Hotel bustles with shabby journalists, dapper diplomats and wealthy patrons in mink coats.
One survey suggests ISIS lost nearly a quarter of its territory in Iraq and Syria last year alone, and more than a third since its peak. Its finances have taken a hit, according to the US-led coalition and 180 "senior" leaders have been taken out by 17,000 airstrikes.
This is Round 2 for Mr. Price, who appeared for four hours last week before the Senate health committee. Mr. Price has been a focus of Democratic criticism of his views on issues like Medicare and Medicaid spending, and he has also faced scrutiny over stock trades during his time in Congress.
davisem on 02 Feb 17The Trump administration has said it was "officially putting Iran on notice" on Wednesday, in reaction to a Iranian missile test and an attack on a Saudi warship by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, but gave no details about how Washington intended to respond.
