Ivanka Trump’s rabbi is condemning President Donald Trump’s response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein told his New York synagogue that he is “deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation” of Trump’s reaction. Trump has blamed “both sides” in last week’s march that also drew neo-Nazis and Ku […]
Scaramucci criticizes Trump’s reaction to Charlottesville violence
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Donald Trump’s reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “This Week” today in his first television interview since his whirlwind 11-day stint in the White House. “I wouldn’t have […]
An outpouring of support for Sen. John McCain from across the political spectrum
Sen. John McCain, who has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, has received an outpouring of support from current and former lawmakers from across the political spectrum. The 80-year-old Arizona Republican underwent a procedure last Friday to remove a blood clot above his left eye at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. […]
An Iranian cancer researcher who was detained at Boston Airport , sent back to Iran
An Iranian cancer researcher who was detained at Boston’s Logan International Airport has been sent back to his home country. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokeswoman Stephanie Malin said Mohsen Dehnavi and his family were put on a return flight shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday. Dehnavi was arriving in the U.S. to start work at […]
ISIS is on the verge of defeat in Raqqa too, its fighters surrounded and under fire
The closer you get to the last bedrock of ISIS, the more obvious their impact and the more frequent the sights and stories of loss and deprivation. ISIS is on the verge of defeat here, its fighters surrounded and under fire. But military victory will not soon heal the families ripped apart by years of […]
‘Morning Joe’ co-host Joe Scarborough is leaving the Republican Party
Joe Scarborough, the conservative co-host of MSNBC’s political commentary show “Morning Joe,” is leaving the Republican Party. He made the announcement Tuesday night during an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” alongside his co-host Mika Brzezinski. A two-minute clip of the segment was teased on the program’s Twitter account earlier Tuesday. Scarborough tore into what […]
Why did Trump Jr repeatedly change his story on Russia
AS DONALD Trump’s son confronts the fallout from his meeting with a lawyer connected to the Russian government, one big, obvious question remains unanswered. Why would the president’s son repeatedly omit key information about the meeting if he had nothing to hide? Donald Trump Jr’s explanation for last year’s meeting with Russian lawyer Vatalia Veselnitskaya, […]
Wife stabbed to death husband and their four children in Georgia, USA home
Georgia’s Gwinnett County police said a father and four children — all under the age of 10 — were stabbed to death and one young girl was hospitalized Thursday. The GCPD said the mother of the children, who is also the father’s wife, has been detained. The father was in his mid-30s. The GCPD said […]
Kremlin dictated terms of Putin, Trump talks. McMaster was excluded from meeting
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face talks on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday accompanied by just their foreign ministers. “We look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for Russia and the United States,” Trump said as he headed into the […]
Qatar needs a healthy, constructive relationship with Iran – Qatari FM
Qatar’s foreign minister said on Wednesday his country needed to have a healthy and constructive relationship with neighbouring Iran. Speaking in London at the Chatham House international affairs think-tank, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar and Iran had to live alongside each other, and noted the two countries share a gas field. REUTERS