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Trump plan to offer citizenship to 1.8m undocumented immigrants
Lindsey Graham , a Republican from SC, said in a statement . After the Trump administration formally announced the end of DACA, DREAMers all around the United States are in fear, anxious about what the future holds. After celebrating his anniversary in the post with a government shutdown caused by his inability to reconcile with the bipartisan Senate, the president again uses his tele... [Articulo completo...]
Karnataka bandh over Mahadayi river water dispute : Life partially affected
The 12-hour, dawn-to-dusk bandh has been called by Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha (KCVP) and other fringe outfits. On the account of this issue, centered around the Mahadayi river shared by Karnataka and Goa , a bandh has been declared on the 25 of January in Karnataka, following which another bandh will take place in Bengaluru on 4 February. [Articulo completo...]
Donald Trump reportedly attempted to fire Robert Mueller
Instead, the White House lawyer threatened to resign his own post. Mueller is leading the probe into allegations of collusion between the U.S. president's campaign team and Russian Federation in the 2016 election. Sources say the special counsel wants to ask president trump himself about the firings of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Federal Bureau of Investigatio... [Articulo completo...]
White House releases list of employees questioned by Mueller — RUSSIA PROBE
I certainly don't support the goal of #ReleaseTheMemo, which is to demonize the FBI and special prosecutor Robert Mueller and pave the way for President Trump's all-but-inevitable attempt to fire Mueller . "It says the Trump campaign turned over 1.4 million pages". But earlier this month, Trump was less committal, dodging on a question about being interviewed by Mueller and saying, ... [Articulo completo...]
Republic Day 2018: Leaders of 10 ASEAN nations to be chief guests
Modi was accompanied by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa and Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba. The marching contingents aside, several aircraft, military vehicles, and weapons are displayed during the parade. The tableaus of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh roll down Rajpath. [Articulo completo...]
Icahn Carl C Lowered Freeport (FCX) Stake as Stock Value Declined
Caterpillar Inc shares surged 3.51 percent in premarket trading after the world's largest heavy duty equipment maker trounced profit forecasts for a seventh quarter. Fortunately, there is way to use the speed and magnitude of these price changes to predict future performance, thanks to what are known as momentum indicators . [Articulo completo...]
Trump threatens to freeze more aid to Palestinians
Addressing the participants of the meeting on Thursday, Netanyahu said Jerusalem will be Israel's capital "under any peace agreement". Trump has threatened to halt aid to its refugee agency if they do not engage in peace talks. "Peace can only be built on the basis of truth". Talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace have frozen since the embassy announcement. For those watching from the sideli... [Articulo completo...]
Trump: I'm 'Looking Forward' to Mueller Interview
Trump and the White House have voiced frustration over the continuing investigation looking into Russia's impact on the 2016 election and whether or not the Trump campaign colluded. "I think he's just taking a layperson's view of obstruction". The Time's Up organization hopes to support women who raise sexual misconduct complaints and was formed by Hollywood celebrities and executives including ... [Articulo completo...]
Recollect arms from PYD/PKK terrorists — Turkey to US
The country's meteorological service said exceptionally high levels of rain this winter were to blame for the floods, with rainfall in Paris twice as high as normal. President Donald Trump has urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to de-escalate the country's military incursions in northern Syria, warning against actions that "could risk conflict between Turkish and American forces". [Articulo completo...]
White House says 'immigration framework' will be unveiled next week
Trump said he was open to giving DACA recipients citizenship over a 10- to 12-year period. Those eligible will be able to become citizens in 10 to 12 years, Trump said on Wednesday, contingent on meeting work and education requirements the White House is leaving up to Congress to establish. [Articulo completo...]
Trump's DACA Decision Is Right but Unsettling
Trump's sympathy to a pathway to permanency for the young immigrants after they've spent 10 or 12 years in the country is a "major breakthrough", argued Sen. On Tuesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show", Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that the Democrats in the Senate "came to the view that" if the government shutdown continued, the country would lose support for the ... [Articulo completo...]
Senate Republicans Reject Trump's Call To End The Filibuster Rule
Something also that's been voted on along with a funding bill is continuing the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), something Stefanik said Schumer and other Democrats in the Senate voted against. The bill passed with a resounding "yes" from Democrats on the plan. Senators were still negotiating on the Senate floor as the clock turned midnight, but Trump's office issued a statemen... [Articulo completo...]
Trump says he's open to pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
GOP Senate leaders want more clarity from the White House on what version of a DACA fix would be palatable to Trump, who previously told lawmakers he would sign whatever deal they could come up with. "We have created a process for input". A White House official said on Thursday that the administration anticipates the House will probably pass its own immigration bill that will have to m... [Articulo completo...]
Missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents recovered
I promise you, I would tell you if you should", she wrote. But Johnson refused to publicly release the full text message, sent the day after Trump was elected in November 2016, or to characterize the "whistleblower" in any way. Mark Warner of Virginia: "At this point I accept the FBI's word". The department last month began providing lawmakers with copies of text communications to and fr... [Articulo completo...]
AT&T CEO Calls On Congress To Create An Internet Bill Of Rights
The Federal Communications Commission narrowly voted in December to get rid of the net neutrality regulations which guaranteed traffic on the internet was treated equally, and prevented broadband and wireless providers from blocking or slowing online content. [Articulo completo...]
North Korea calls for reunification with South Korea: report
The hit occurred with 1:59 left in the third period of Boston's 3-2 win and knocked Johansson out of the game. The two places in North Korea are appropriate for its peace offensive or the propaganda of its achievements. Reunification of the Korean Peninsula has long been an aspiration of the North; however, it should be noted that this is unification under North Korean leadership. [Articulo completo...]
Winter Olympics trip for Newberry
Ian Chesterman, Chef de Mission of the Australian team, said it was the most accomplished Winter Olympics team in Australia's history with the athletes having won 54 World Cup medals between them. Parrot will be competing at his second Olympics after finishing fifth in slopestyle in 2014. On Friday, the International Olympic Committee said it had cut an initial list of 500 Russian athletes dow... [Articulo completo...]
White House Switches Up Voicemail to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
It was a major victory for President Donald Trump as Senate Democrats on Monday gave up on the government shutdown without any action on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (aka, DACA ). "We will vote today to reopen the government", Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the Senate. But we need to have a substantive answer, and the only person who can lead us to that is P... [Articulo completo...]
United States warns Turkey over military action in Kurdish enclave
Amid rising tensions, Trump urged Turkey to "exercise caution and to avoid any actions that might risk conflict between Turkish and American forces". The United States is trying hard to accommodate Turkey's national security interests with the reasons why the USA military is in Syria, the general said. [Articulo completo...]
Turkey disputes United States version of Trump-Erdogan phone call
The BSF would be mainly constituted by the YPG, supported politically and militarily by the United States since 2014 in the battle against the Islamic State. "We are in full readiness to respond to any attack". The Turkish shelling by assorted weaponry has targeted residential areas in Afrin, 63 km north of Aleppo province in northern Syria, leaving civilian casualties and big property losses,... [Articulo completo...]