WASHINGTON - President Trump planned to formally abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, pulling away from Asia and scrapping his predecessor's most significant trade deal on his first full weekday in office, administration officials said. Mr. Trump sharply criticized the partnership agreement during last year's campaign, calling it a bad deal for American workers.
US intelligence satellites have picked up signs of activity at North Korea's Chamjin missile factory southwest of Pyongyang, according to two officials familiar with the matter. The US believes the activity could signal preparations for some type of ballistic missile test in the first days or weeks of the Trump administration, they said.
The police came for Mr. Alam at night, said his wife, Jhorna Begum. When he did not return after several days, Ms. Begum scraped together about $12 to pay a lawyer who helped track him down to a local jail.
Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Anuar Zhainakov told CNN the Syrian opposition delegation had arrived at the capital Astana ahead of the talks. Representatives of Syria's government are due to arrive later. "I can confirm that the delegations from Russia, Turkey, Iran, (UN Special Envoy for Syria) Staffan de Mistura and the Syrian opposition delegation are all in Astana already," said Zhainakov.
"I think," said Bob Jones, 72, a shoe shiner at the station, "he's the highest-ranking person we ever had." Mr. Biden was born in Scranton, Pa. (and he speaks of it often), but he moved to Delaware as a young teenager and has considered it home, more or less, since.
President Trump's new executive order instructing federal agencies to grant relief to constituencies affected by the Affordable Care Act has begun to reverberate throughout the nation's health-care system, injecting further uncertainty into an already unsettled insurance landscape.
A flight of U.S. stealth bombers struck Islamic State targets southwest of the Libyan city of Sirte Monday, less than a month after the Pentagon declared an end to an extended air campaign there. A U.S.
"The project of civil rights has always demanded creativity," she said in an interview. "It requires being bold. Often that means going against the grain of current-day popular thinking. Or it requires going to the more expansive reading of the law to ensure we are actually ensuring equal protection for everyone."
The Philippine president has launched a tirade at priests and bishops critical of his crackdown on illegal drugs, accusing them of homosexuality, corruption and of child abuse. Rodrigo Duterte was furious about concerns by the Catholic church of alleged extrajudicial killings during his war on drugs, and lambasted clergymen for denouncing him instead of using their influence to help end addiction.
Americans views of Obamacare tilt narrowly positive, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, marking the first time more have favored than opposed the law since its passage in 2010. The shift comes at the same time more than 8-in-10 say the law is likely to be repealed and replaced by incoming president Donald Trump.
Capitalism is in crisis across the globe - but what on earth is the alternative? Well, what about the musings of a certain 19th-century German philosopher? Yes, Karl Marx is going mainstream - and goodness knows where it will end
After a tumultuous campaign and transition, President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office Friday as the least-popular incoming president in at least four decades, but a majority of Americans nevertheless express optimism that he will be able to fulfill campaign pledges to boost the economy and deal with threats of terrorism, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Donald Trump was asked a seemingly innocuous question by the Times of London over the weekend: Name a few of your heroes. Here's how Trump responded: Trump was asked if he has any heroes. Answer: https://t.co/3idRsQFQoN pic.twitter.com/yGyjx1q1Bl - Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 16, 2017 Um, ok. Let's unpack this.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that repealing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, while leaving other parts in place, would cost 18 million people their insurance in the first year and could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 32 million in 10 years, while causing insurance premiums to double over that time.
Up to about 40 Democratic members of Congress have announced they will skip Donald Trump's Friday inauguration. While some made their decision in previous weeks, several more have now come forward, citing the president-elect's perceived insult of Rep. John Lewis as the final straw.
Numerous reports on Twitter from locals have claimed that several apparent explosions have rocked houses in the Riviera city. One person wrote: "The explosion was felt on the wall [of my house] and the window trembled." There has been no official confirmation of what caused the apparent blasts. More to follow.
The announcement, which was expected, comes after criticism of the Justice Department's handling of the investigation, particularly on how the public was notified. The email probe was a major issue on the 2016 campaign trail. Developing story - more to come
The action by the Senate is essentially procedural, setting the stage for a special kind of legislation called a reconciliation bill. Such a bill can be used to repeal significant parts of the health law and, critically, is immune from being filibustered. Congress appears to be at least weeks away from voting on legislation repealing the law.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he spoke Wednesday to Donald Trump seeking to reassure the President-elect that intelligence agencies weren't the source of news accounts about a private intelligence dossier that was summarized in briefing documents for Trump.
"Russia as you know with their incursion into Ukraine, that's something that has a lot of our allies and partners concerned," Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters. "Being able to demonstrate tangibly our commitment to their defense is an important element of our overall collective defense in Europe."
davisem on 23 Jan 17WASHINGTON - President Trump planned to formally abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, pulling away from Asia and scrapping his predecessor's most significant trade deal on his first full weekday in office, administration officials said. Mr. Trump sharply criticized the partnership agreement during last year's campaign, calling it a bad deal for American workers.
