US under Trump Series: Government can remain funded until mid-October without debt ceiling rise
Jun 30, 2017 07:43 am UTC| Commentary
United States Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a report that suggests that the government can remain funded until early to mid-October. After which the Treasury is expected to run out of cash. The United...
Jun 28, 2017 06:34 am UTC| Commentary
This week turned out to be a big victory week for the US President Donald Trump and his administration which remained dogged by allegations of colluding with Russia since the first day of the Presidency. Several leaks and...
Is Nancy Pelosi worth the trouble?
Jun 27, 2017 02:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Democrats in Congress are struggling to keep up a unified front. As the minority party, Democrats have spent the past six months standing by, mostly powerless, as President Donald Trump has made haphazard progress...
US under Trump Series: Trump pours on cold water on 'Comey tapes' speculation
Jun 23, 2017 07:52 am UTC| Commentary Politics
With a series of tweets, President Donald Trump poured cold water over the hot speculations that has been brewing for months that there are tapes of conversations between him and the former FBI director James Comey. After...
Jun 21, 2017 10:07 am UTC| Commentary Law Politics
According to a Fox News report, which was confirmed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal inquiry into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
US under Trump Series: Trump to announce further details on ‘Comey tape’ later this week
Jun 21, 2017 09:46 am UTC| Commentary
After US President Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey in May, he tweeted a warning to the director against leaking information to the press. The tweet said James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of...
US under Trump Series: Is Trump giving up on Chinese help with North Korean aggression?
Jun 21, 2017 08:53 am UTC| Commentary
After being inaugurated as the US President in January, President Trump escalated tensions with North Korea by sending an armada consisting of several U.S. aircraft carriers and submarines in the Korean Peninsula in...
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