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US President Trump Wants Armed Teachers in Schools

2018-02-22 06:50:15 UTC
WASHINGTON/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Students galvanized by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confronted lawmakers on Wednesday with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles, while President Donald Trump suggested arming tea...

North Korea canceled a secret meeting with US

2018-02-21 05:34:36 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence was all set to hold a history-making meeting with North Korean officials during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but Kim Jong Un’s government canceled at the last minute, the Trump administration said...

George & Amal Clooney to join student march for gun control

2018-02-20 23:23:11 UTC
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George Clooney and his wife said on Tuesday they are donating $500,000 to the “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington and will walk with students in support of gun control following last week’s shooting at a Florida high ...

US Election 2016: The Cook, Putin & Trump

2018-02-20 23:24:32 UTC
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — While Russian officials scoff at a U.S. indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, several people who worked at the same St. Petersburg “troll factory” say they think the cri...

Florida students to lawmakers and Trump: 'Shame on you'

2018-02-18 08:49:13 UTC
Victims of the recent Florida school shooting have called out politicians for their lack of action after yet another deadly massacre. "Shame on you!" the students said to Trump, NRA and U.S. lawmakers. Thousands of students, parents and gun con...

Supreme Court to decide whether to hear Trump's DACA appeal

2018-02-16 18:13:34 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court could say on Friday whether it will consider President Donald Trump’s appeal of a lower court decision blocking his order to end a program that shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from de...

Appeals court: Trump latest travel ban is unconstitutional

2018-02-15 17:34:09 UTC
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban on travelers from six largely Muslim countries is unconstitutional because it discriminates against Muslims because of their religion, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday In a 9...

US teenager shoots and kills at least 17 in a Florida high school

2018-02-15 08:05:51 UTC
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old gunman returning to a Florida high school where he had once been expelled opened fire with an assault rifle on Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others before he was arrested, auth...

The Real Concerns About Markets As U.S. Inflation Looms

2018-02-14 18:54:27 UTC
New York — U.S. financial markets have been roiled recently by something neither the economy nor investors have had to contend with for the better part of a decade: concerns they may soon have to reckon with rising inflation. The S&P 500 .SPX.I...

Rebuilding Iraq after war with ISIS will cost $88.2 billion

2018-02-12 10:49:21 UTC
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with Islamic State will cost $88.2 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told an international donors’ conference on Monday. Donors and investors have g...

Paul: I can't look the other way by trillion-dollar deficits

2018-02-09 06:06:44 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government stumbled into a shutdown at midnight as a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal, protesting the return of trillion-dollar deficits on the watch of...

Dow Jones falls again, sending investors into a panicked frenzy

2018-02-08 17:53:50 UTC
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks turned lower in early trading on Thursday, with investors still on edge as volatility in financial markets persisted following the worst declines in more than two-and-a-half years earlier in the week. Wall Street ran out...

Dow Jones Worst Day Since 2011

2018-02-06 03:58:21 UTC
TOKYO (AP) — Shares tumbled in Asia on Tuesday after a wild day for U.S. markets that resulted in the biggest drop in the Dow Jones industrial average in six and a half years. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index dropped as much as 5.6 percent in early tra...

Trump declassified FBI memo written only in his own favor

2018-02-02 19:38:37 UTC
House Republicans on Friday released a partisan and bitterly disputed memo that they say shows surveillance abuses in the early stages of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The memo, prepared by Republicans on the House...

Comey defends FBI and says, "weasels and liars never hold the field"

2018-02-02 06:57:54 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has defended the agency Twitter, writing, “All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. ” President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been attacking...

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe resigns

2018-01-29 20:43:13 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticized by President Donald Trump for alleged bias against him and in favor of his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, has stepped down as the agency’s No. 2 official, a source fam...

Weak US Dollar Struggles, Asian Shares Reach Record Peak

2018-01-25 07:27:10 UTC
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks hit a record high on Thursday though concerns about the Trump administration’s protectionist stance tempered enthusiasm in financial markets, while the dollar struggled after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin we...

Mueller Questioned CIA Officials About Trump

2018-01-24 18:31:36 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. intelligence officers including CIA Director Mike Pompeo have been questioned by the U.S. special counsel’s team about whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice in the Russia probe, sources told Re...

Dollar Slides to 3-year Low as Euro Gains

2018-01-24 07:28:05 UTC
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar slid to three-year lows against a basket of major peers on Wednesday. The euro climbed to as high as $1.2335 EUR=, its strongest level since December 2014, and was last up 0.2 percent at $1.2318. Euro zone co...

Trumpian Era Brings Unprecedented Trust Crisis in U.S.

2018-01-22 07:34:32 UTC
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Trust in U.S. institutions, particularly the government, has plunged in President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to a leading survey released on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The an...

Washington discusses bill funding government until Feb. 8

2018-01-21 20:26:12 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday that the House of Representatives would accept a bill funding the government through Feb. 8 and ending the current shutdown of federal agencies if the Senate can pass the measure. ...

A year of Trump: Hate binds and blinds US

2018-01-21 07:50:21 UTC
The US president has been in office for a year. His critics make it far too easy for him when they unite in blind hate against all things Donald Trump, writes Germany's public international broadcaster-DW Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl. Figures ...

Women's March 2018 Rallies Across the United States

2018-01-20 19:26:47 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters turned out across the nation for the second Women’s March on Saturday, marking the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration with rallies aimed at channeling female activism into poli...

Far-Right Leader Farage 'Handed Data to Assange' to Favor Trump

2018-01-19 20:44:53 UTC
Nigel Farage ‘handed data to Julian Assange during a secret meeting at the embassy where WikiLeaks boss is hiding.’ Private investigator tells House panel Farage gave thumb drive to Assange, who officials view as a conduit for the Russian gover...

Twitter intends to notify users exposed to Russian propaganda

2018-01-17 21:49:39 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter may notify users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service, a company executive told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday. The social media company is “working to identify and...