Listen to this article | 4 mins info Donald Trump has appeared to confirm that the United States is looking to further shore up military assets in the Middle East despite ongoing diplomacy to ease tensions with Iran. The US president shared on his Truth Social platform on Thursday, without comment, a Wall Street Journal article titled … Read more
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Thursday that a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned in his ongoing corruption trials was still under review, after Donald Trump called him “disgraceful” for not granting it. File photo of Israel’s President Isaac Herzog looks on during a meeting with the German Chancellor at his residence … Read more
Former US president Barack Obama on Thursday issued a stark warning on Donald Trump’s decision to repeal a landmark scientific finding underpinning climate regulations, saying that it would leave Americans “less safe, less healthy.” Former US President Barack Obama speaks with President-elect Donald Trump before the State Funeral Service for former US President Jimmy Carter … Read more
Senate Democrats block DHS funding bill as department shutdown looms Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) open on Thursday. The legislation failed to clear the 60 vote threshold needed, and fell almost entirely along party lines in a 52-47 vote. Senator John Fetterman was the only Democratic … Read more
The Trump administration just eliminated the landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planet-heating pollution since 2009. For nearly the past two decades, the “endangerment finding” has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to craft rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than repealing those rules individually, the Trump administration … Read more
After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which found that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane were a threat to human health and welfare. The finding had so far supported the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Currently, the … Read more
Climate leaders gathered outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on Wednesday to condemn the Trump administration’s plans to repeal the legal finding underpinning all federal climate regulations, and promised to fight against the rollback. “This is corruption, plain and simple. Old-fashioned, dirty political corruption,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, senator for Rhode Island, at the rally. … Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that US President Donald Trump believed he was creating the conditions for a “good deal” with Iran, though the Israeli leader remained skeptical about the quality of any such agreement. Netanyahu says Trump thinks he is creating conditions for ‘good deal’ with Iran Netanyahu had travelled to Washington for … Read more
Here’s three things we know about Donald Trump. He thirsts for revenge; he’ll stretch the limits of presidential power to enact it; and he never gives up after a defeat. No wonder that six Democratic lawmakers, all military and intelligence veterans, are bracing for what comes next despite a grand jury refusing to indict them … Read more
President Trump said Wednesday that nearly all governors are welcome at the White House for a formal meeting and dinner next week, though the Democratic governors of Maryland and Colorado are still being excluded. The White House was initially going to exclude Democratic governors from a formal, typically bipartisan business meeting on Feb. 20 during the … Read more