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U.S. Marine Corps photo A Huey door gunner unloads on a target at the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Calif., Oct. 2, 2013. WASHINGTON — American defense firms are the indisputable leaders of the world’s $398 billion arms sales industry, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research …
Read More »Trump calls meeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi a ‘total waste of time’ after he storms out
President Donald Trump on Wednesday stormed out of a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over an ongoing partial government shutdown, calling it “a total waste of time.” The breakdown in already fraught negotiations over border wall funding, which have kept nine federal agencies …
Read More »Food stamp benefits guaranteed through February despite shutdown
Helen H. Richardson | Denver Post | Getty Images United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, right, listens during a round table discussion with local Colorado vegetable growers on May 15, 2018 in Brighton, Colorado. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is visiting Colorado as part of a tour highlighting Trump …
Read More »Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer talk government shutdown and Trump border wall
Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images GP: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (2nd-R), D-CA, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (2nd-L), D-NY, Rep. Steny Hoyer (L), D-MD, and Senator Dick Durbin (R), D-IL, exit the White House after meeting with US president Donald Trump to discuss the partial government shutdown, January …
Read More »Trump’s prime-time sales pitch for wall didn’t change shutdown fight
Carlos Barria | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an address on border security in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. President Donald Trump’s lunchtime prediction to broadcasters on Tuesday was right. His televised speech didn’t …
Read More »Mueller accused Manafort of lying about sharing polling data with spy
Getty Images Paul Manafort, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump, speaks on the phone while touring the floor of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena as final preparations continue July 17, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort of …
Read More »Most illegal immigration isn’t at Mexican border where Trump wants to build a wall
Leah Mills| Reuters A migrant child sleeps while he is carried by family as fellow migrants, all part of the caravan of migrants who traveled from Central America with the intention of crossing into the U.S., walk to the border fence in order to cross into the U.S. from Tijuana, …
Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan shuts down White House’s Bolton on Syria
Adem Altan | AFP | Getty Images Turkey’s President and leader of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his party’s parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on January 8, 2019. Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan issued a …
Read More »Oil prices don’t influence US response to Khashoggi crisis
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said oil prices did not and will not influence the Trump administration’s response to the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Pompeo’s remarks, made in an interview with CNBC’s Wilfred Frost, come three months after Saudi agents killed the Washington Post columnist in …
Read More »Trump will address nation before visiting southern border amid shutdown
Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump (C) inspects border wall prototypes in San Diego, California on March 13, 2018. President Donald Trump said Monday that he will address the nation at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday to discuss the standoff over his proposed border wall that has …
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