President Trump tells Fox News that if Iran were to block the Strait of Hormuz, “it’s not going to be closed for long.” Trump was responding to a hypothetical question following the attacks Thursday on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, south of the strait, for which the United States has blamed Iran. […] Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refuses to say at what point she would support impeaching President Donald Trump. “Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said,” Pelosi says. “But he has a habit of making appalling statements,” she added. Even if Trump was found to have accepted a foreign government’s […] Read more
A former leading trade advisor to President Donald Trump says he thinks the U.S. will emerge from its lengthy negotiations with China with a deal — but it won’t happen at the G-20 summit at the end of this month. “There won’t be a deal at the G-20,” Clete Willems tells Kayla Tausche at CNBC’s […] Read more
Top Democratic presidential candidates are calling for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage. A lot has changed since the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when slight differences emerged between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders on the minimum wage. Democrats see the policy as one way to win over working-class voters as they try to […] Read more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in power will be defined by his ability to tackle a slowing economy where unemployment rate is at a 45-year high. Recently released data by India’s National Statistical Office showed the unemployment rate between July 2017 and June 2018 climbed to 6.1%, while labor participation rate fell below […] Read more
President Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force “big changes” at subsidiary CNN. “I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!” Trump tweets from […] Read more
Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament early on Thursday, paving the way for a new election after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government before a midnight deadline. The ballot is widely expected to take place in September, the second this year. It represented unprecedented upheaval, commentators said, even in a […] Read more
Italy’s nationalist Lega party is set to win the majority of the country’s seats at the European Parliament, while its coalition partner in Rome has seen a slump in support. Initial results — with over half the ballots counted — suggested that Lega would take around 34% of the vote against just 17% for the […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Monday directed former White House counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a subpoena to testify about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, intensifying a clash between the Trump administration and the House Democrats who subpoenaed McGahn to appear. In a 15-page legal memo from the Department of Justice and a […] Read more
“Right now we are in some sort of cyber Cold War, and deterrence is the only response,” says former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Western countries like Britain, America and France should stop offering nations like Russia and China “futile compromises,” Kasparov says. Kasparov, who famously took on IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer in the late […] Read more
