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FEBRUARY 15, 2019 President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to gain access to roughly $8 billion to fund a border wall. Before Trump's announcement in the Rose Garden, a senior administration official explained that the money will be pulled from the following areas: $1.375 billion from the Homeland Security appropriations bill $600 million from the Treasury Department's drug...
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 The Tribute in Light installation is illuminated over lower Manhattan as seen from The National September 11 Memorial & Museum marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York - Reuters/Andrew Kelly NEW YORK - The special master overseeing a U.S. government fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Friday said future...
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, shown on January 25, 2019, spoke out against President Trump's emergency declaration. - Joshua Roberts WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday ripped President Trump over his declaration of a national emergency to finish building his...
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 A sherpa collecting garbage left by climbers at an altitude of 8,000 metres on the Nepal side of Mount Everest. China is now closing to non-climbers the base camp on the Tibet side of the mountain because of environmental concerns- AFP China has banned tourists from accessing its Mount Everest base camp in Tibet amid an ongoing...
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will declare a national emergency to fulfill...
FEBRUARY 14, 2019 NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who referred to the Pulwama attack that left 43 CRPF jawans dead as a “despicable attack”, took stock of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir in a conversation with both the home minsiter Rajnath Singh and the national security advisor Ajit Doval. A Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting has been...
FEBRUARY 14, 2019 In this Nov. 26, 2017, file photo released by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks at a meeting of the Islamic Military Counterterrorism Alliance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP) Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is asking the chief executives of Apple and Google to immediately stop offering...
FEBRUARY 14, 2019 Amazon said Thursday it will not move forward with plans to build a headquarters in New York after rising opposition from local politicians. The company said it will not reopen the search process "at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate...
FEBRUARY 13, 2019 The cousin of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 pilot has admitted he made a 'mysterious' phone call to his relative before the doomed flight vanished. Former Malaysia Airlines engineer Zulhaimi Bin Wahidin said he called Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and spent 45 minutes on the phone with the pilot. He said he last called his first cousin on February...
FEBRUARY 12, 2019 An ultra-rare black leopard walks through Laikipia Wilderness Camp in central Kenya in 2018. - Photograph by Will Burrard-Lucas They say that black cats bring bad luck, but when Nick Pilfold heard about one lurking around central Kenya, he knew he was onto something special. The Kenya-based biologist and his team deployed a set of camera traps throughout the...