AUGUST 25, 2018
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan delivers his address in Islamabad, Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: AP
The Prime Minister also decided to stop using special plane for foreign visits or domestic travelling and use business class.
Pakistan’s new government has banned the discretionary use of state funds and first-class air travel by officials and leaders, including the President...
AUGUST 25, 2018
NASA obviously has a huge interest in mankind exploring space, so it would make sense that the administration’s newly-appointed chief shares the same interests. In a recent interview with Space.com, NASA’s newly-appointed boss Jim Bridenstine makes a couple of interesting declarations, but starts by assuring everyone that he wants to get as many humans as possible off...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Former CIA Director John Brennan issued one of his most stern rebukes yet of President Trump on Friday night, arguing that the political climate in the country is likely to get worse under his tenure.
"Fundamentally, though, what he's doing to this country, he's dividing us...He's dividing Americans," Brennan said of the president during an appearance on HBO's...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Prosecutors are edging closer and closer to President Trump's business empire, a fact underlined by the news Friday of an immunity deal reportedly given to the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer.
While it is unclear that CFO Allen Weisselberg's reported deal - first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday - puts Trump in any specific...
AUGUST 24, 2018
Treasurer of Australia Scott Morrison arrives for a party meeting in Canberra, Australia August 24, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/Pool
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's new Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday promised a stable government at the end of a tumultuous week in which his predecessor was forced out of office, 13 ministers resigned and Parliament was shut down...
AUGUST 24, 2018
When it comes to flipping, Rudy Giuliani won’t budge.
The former federal prosecutor — famous for coaxing New York mobsters into spilling the beans on their bosses — took a slight jab at President Trump on Friday over his claim that the longstanding legal tactic of “flipping” ought to be “outlawed.”
“The President is not a lawyer,” Giuliani told...
AUGUST 24, 2018
FILE PHOTO: Labourers, who set up the venue, sit under a wall with a billboard displaying a photo of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), political party, as they listen to him during a campaign rally ahead of general elections in Karachi, Pakistan July 22, 2018. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo
Karachi, Pakistan - Pakistan has called for...
AUGUST 24, 2018
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees. The goal, he says, is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb roughly $150 billion in taxpayer...
AUGUST 24, 2018
President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. - AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump renewed pressure Friday on Jeff Sessions to investigate the actions of his adversaries — what he called “corruption” on the “other side” — after the attorney general...
AUGUST 23, 2018
President Trump listens to lawmakers during a roundtable on the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday. - Jabin Botsford/Washington Post
President Trump asked his lawyers several weeks ago for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort and other aides accused of crimes, his lawyer said Thursday.
The...
