• TikTok sale to American company may not happen in time to avoid US ban

    TikTok sale to American company may not happen in time to avoid US ban

    TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, facing roadblocks recently thrown up by the Chinese government, may not be able to sell the app’s US business in time to meet President Trump’s Sept. 20 deadline to avoid a ban. Beijing last month introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology, seemingly including the algorithm that TikTok uses to …
  • Mattis Told Then-DNI Coats They May Be Forced to Take ‘Collective Action’ against ‘Unfit’ Trump, According to New Woodward Book

    Mattis Told Then-DNI Coats They May Be Forced to Take ‘Collective Action’ against ‘Unfit’ Trump, According to New Woodward Book

    Former defense secretary Jim Mattis told then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats they may have to take “collective action” against President Trump due to his unfitness for office, according to a new book by Bob Woodward. In excerpts of the book,”Rage,” published in the Washington Post Woodward, who is famed for his investigative reporting work …
  • ‘I Always Wanted to Play It Down’: Trump Admits to Understating COVID Threat to Avoid Creating ‘Panic’

    ‘I Always Wanted to Play It Down’: Trump Admits to Understating COVID Threat to Avoid Creating ‘Panic’

    President Trump admitted in March that he wanted to publicly downplay the danger posed by the coronavirus in order to avoid creating “panic,” even as he expressed privately that the disease posed a deadly threat, according to a new book on the Trump presidency by Bob Woodward. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told …
  • U.S. to Withdraw Over 2,000 Troops from Iraq, Reducing Presence to 3,000

    U.S. to Withdraw Over 2,000 Troops from Iraq, Reducing Presence to 3,000

    The United States will withdraw over 2,000 troops from Iraq this month, roughly half of its troop presence, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Wednesday. In a long awaited move that works toward President Trump’s goal of getting America out of “endless wars,” forces will be cut from 5,200 to 3,000, Marine …
  • How Trump won my respect after my wife died fighting ISIS under his orders

    How Trump won my respect after my wife died fighting ISIS under his orders

    I’d never met a president before Donald Trump. His empathy and thoughtfulness on one of the worst days of my life won my gratitude. “Hey, Joe,” a quiet but familiar voice said to me from the doorway of a small room with plush furniture. The room was meant to provide as much comfort as possible …
  • President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

    President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

    President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for his efforts towards resolving conflicts worldwide. ‘For his merit, I think he has …
  • Bezos tops Forbes’ richest list for third year in a row

    Bezos tops Forbes’ richest list for third year in a row

    Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos topped Forbes’ list of richest Americans for the third year in a row, while President Trump’s ranking dropped as the coronavirus pandemic slammed his office buildings, hotels and resorts, the magazine said Tuesday. The aggregate wealth of the Forbes 400 list rose to a record $3.2 trillion, as the richest …
  • Signed Bible inspired by Trump’s photo op going to auction

    Signed Bible inspired by Trump’s photo op going to auction

    After President Donald Trump posed with a Bible during the notorious June photo op outside St. John’s Church, Moments In Time auctioneer Gary Zimet reached out to an inside contact to have Trump autograph a Bible. The event made headlines around the world after cops used tear gas to disperse protesters so that Trump could …
  • Defending your property with a gun if needed is as American as apple pie. Trump will not denounce it

    Defending your property with a gun if needed is as American as apple pie. Trump will not denounce it

    When rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week burned down and looted businesses, the police did not stop them. We have seen this in cities across the country. No storeowner in Democratic-run areas that are subject to a leftist protest, which can “intensify” into riots, can have the slightest hope that the police will keep it …
  • Trump Oversees ‘Breakthrough’ Serbia-Kosovo Agreement to Normalize Economic Relations

    Trump Oversees ‘Breakthrough’ Serbia-Kosovo Agreement to Normalize Economic Relations

    Kosovo will recognize Israel, and Serbia will move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, President Trump announced Friday after he oversaw a “breakthrough” agreement to normalize economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovan prime minister Avdullah Hoti inked the Belgrade-Pristina deal during a joint visit to the White House on Thursday, …