MARCH 5, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White House Counsel's Office is refusing to release documents requested by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform related to its issuance of security clearances, teeing up a potential subpoena battle between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
In a letter addressed to Chairman Elijah Cummings on Monday, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said...
MARCH 5, 2019
Kim Jong Un arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 5, 2019 after his summit with President Donald Trump in Vietnam. - North Korean state media via BBC Monitoring
Kim Jong Un returned home to a hero's welcome from his 60-hour train ride from Vietnam after his summit with President Donald Trump.
He arrived in Pyongyang at 3...
MARCH 5, 2019
Ty Cobb, the veteran Washington attorney who represented the White House as special counsel Robert Mueller ramped up his investigation into Russian meddling, said he considers the man leading the probe “an American hero” and does not share President Donald Trump’s view that the Russia inquiry is a politically motivated hoax.
“I don't feel the same way about...
MARCH 5, 2019
Inside the cave of the ancient Jaguar God
Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual objects—untouched for more than a thousand years—in a series of cave chambers that may hold clues to the rise and fall...
MARCH 5, 2019
T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.
Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top...
MARCH 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he intends to end India's preferential trade treatment under a program that allows $5.6 billion worth of Indian exports to enter the United States duty free.
"I am providing notice of my intent to terminate the designation of India as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System...
MARCH 4, 2019
People watch a projection depicting a portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an event in the capital Riyadh. - AFP/Getty Images
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Muna AbuSulayman was relaxing in bed last month when her phone pinged with news that the grand mufti, Saudi Arabia’s religious leader, had died.
After checking that the alert appeared to originate...
MARCH 4, 2019
TikTok, the mini-music-video app launched by Chinese company ByteDance in 2016, last week surpassed one billon downloads, according to app data provider Sensor Tower. That makes it one of the world’s most-installed social networking apps last year behind only Facebook and its offerings.
The app was installed about 663 million times last year, compared with 711 million for...
MARCH 4, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Canadian PM Trudeau shuffles his cabinet after the resignation of Treasury Board President Brison in Ottawa,- Reuters/Patrick Doyle
OTTAWA, CANADA - In a serious blow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a second member of his Cabinet resigned on Monday, saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt with an escalating political...
MARCH 4, 2019
Hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 Indian government websites and critical systems within hours of the Pulwama suicide strike by a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist in which 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed, senior officials in the security establishment said on condition of anonymity. “There was an unusual surge of activity, attempts to breach...
