By Margaret Hartmann February 2, 2017 6:09 a.m. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. New questions have emerged about what went wrong in the U.S. military raid against Al Qaeda in Yemen last weekend. Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a Navy SEAL, was killed in the operation and three other U.S. service members were injured. […]
By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson February 2 CLICK IMAGE for link to story. The Senate voted to overturn an Obama administration rule Thursday aimed at preventing coal-mining operations from dumping waste into nearby waterways, the first of nearly half-a-dozen rule reversals headed to President Trump’s desk for his signature this month. The 54-to-45 approval of the measure, which […]
By Alex Johnson JAN 30 2017, 10:48 PM EST CLICK IMAGE for direct link to the story. President Donald Trump replaced the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday night, shortly after he fired the acting attorney general, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed. Unlike the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, the […]
By MARK LANDLER, MATT APUZZO and ERIC LICHTBLAU JAN. 30 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to the story. WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons. Taking action in an escalating crisis for his 10-day-old […]
BY REBECCA KHEEL – 01/30/17 06:22 PM EST CLICK IMAGE for direct link to the story. THE TOPLINE: Fallout from President Trump’s executive order on refugees continued to roil Washington on Monday. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary James Mattis is compiling a list of Iraqis who helped U.S. troops during the war there who he wants to exempt […]
By Elise Labott, CNN Updated 3:38 PM ET, Mon January 30, 2017 The White House spokesman on Monday said career US diplomats who don’t back President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration executive order should find a new line of work if they don’t get on board. Asked about a draft memo (published by The Washington Post) signed by dozens of […]
Josh Rogin January 30 at 11:34 AM Dozens of State Department officials are expected to sign a memo opposing President Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, activating the famous “Dissent Channel,” which diplomats have used for decades, to oppose what they see as wrongheaded policies put forth by the Trump White House. “A […]
January 29th, 2017 President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council (NSC), downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon. Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join high-level discussions about national security. The order was signed on […]
By Jerry Markon, Emma Brown and Katherine Shaver January 28 at 9:46 PM Breaking: Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States following President Trump’s executive order. And only minutes after the judge’s ruling in […]
Joanna Walters in New York, Edward Helmore at JFK international airport and Saeed Kamali Dehghan in London Saturday 28 January 2017 17.50 EST Homeland security says green card holders included while ACLU files lawsuit after two Iraqi men detained at New York’s JFK airport despite having valid visas Donald Trump’s executive order to close America’s borders to refugees and immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries […]
