A British man has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison over his attempt to grab a gun in a bid to kill Donald Trump. Michael Sandford, 20, pleaded guilty in September to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function. He was accused of grabbing … Read more
President Barack Obama says any president who shuns daily intelligence briefings would be “flying blind” on national security matters, a stiff push-back against Donald Trump’s suggestion that that he doesn’t need daily read-ins to fulfill his campaign pledge to “make America safe again.” “I think the president-elect may say one thing and do another once … Read more
Senior Republicans in Congress have said they will support further investigation of findings that Russian hackers meddled in the US election. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said any foreign intervention in the polls was unacceptable. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly poured scorn on the claims, made by US intelligence. The … Read more
A bipartisan quartet of high-profile senators said Sunday that “recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American,” as President-elect Donald Trump sharpened his unprecedented attacks on US intelligence agencies. The group — two Republicans and two Democrats — called for an investigation into American intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russian hacking was … Read more
In an unprecedented public display of acrimony, President-elect Donald Trump and the CIA are engaged in a war of words over the extent and details of Russian efforts to interfere with the American presidential election. “There must be big smiles this morning at the Kremlin,” said former White House cyber security official Richard Clarke, now … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as “ridiculous” a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour. He told Fox News the Democrats were putting out the reports because they were embarrassed at the scale of the election defeat. On Friday, CIA officials told US media they had concluded that Russians … Read more
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Friday he had removed his name from consideration for a position in Donald Trump’s new administration as the president-elect narrows the field of people he is considering for secretary of state. Giuliani’s withdrawal from consideration came after Trump made clear that he was broadening his search for … Read more
President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into a series of cyber-attacks, blamed on Russia, that shook the US election season. The hacks targeted emails at the Democratic Party and a key aide to presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In October, US government officials pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of meddling in the US … Read more
Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to Donald Trump, defended the President-elect’s recent call with the president of Taiwan, saying in a local radio interview that he didn’t care if it upset China. “Taiwan is our ally,” Moore said in a radio interview Monday on the Big John and Ray Show on WLS AM890. “That is … Read more
Fresh off saving 800 Carrier factory jobs from being off-shored to Mexico, President-elect Donald Trump is renewing his threat against companies that move their operations to foreign countries. In a series of tweets Sunday morning, Trump pledged to lower corporate taxes across the board. But he also said he would charge a hefty 35% tax … Read more
If you ask me I will say the Americans went too low in their campaigning. This was not expected of a matured democracy. What is even intriguing is that it went beyond the corridors of the contenders to include the fourth estate of every nation-the media. I for one can say that the president elect … Read more
Trump starts ‘thank you’ tour with raucous rally Donald Trump delivered an unmistakable message Thursday in his first big speech since election night — the unconventional, impulsive and unscripted person who won a stunning victory is the one that America will get as its President. The President-elect emerged from three weeks closeted in Trump Tower … Read more
Republicans in the U. S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as a way to fulfill his campaign promises to restore blue-collar jobs. The plan would be one way to help Republican lawmakers reconcile their … Read more
China appears to be sending a message to President-elect Donald Trump: Good luck competing against us on manufacturing. Mere hours after Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Carrier announced a deal to keep nearly 1,000 factory jobs in the U. S., a top Chinese newspaper published an analysis piece with the headline: “China would benefit … Read more
Ghanaian actress Lydia Forson has warned the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their supporters to be circumspect in how they react to criticism from opposition factions lest they lose the December 7 polls. According to Ms Forson, the NPP is banking on the general perception that people are frustrated with the governing National Democratic … Read more
I am an immigrant, a woman, a community leader that vigorously campaigned for Hillary Clinton not just on social media but across the country, and I proudly voted for her on November 8TH, 2016. At exactly 8pm on the Election Night, a group of African leaders gathered at a well-known African Restaurant in New Jersey … Read more
Polls are like blankets you can’t go without them during cold seasons. They give allergies when you throw them on and you may likely catch pneumonia or severe cold if you decide to go without them says author Gordon Offin-Amaniampong. This appears to be the dilemma facing Ghanaian voters and political parties in this election … Read more
Berkeley Professor Emerita Arlie Russell Hochschild ’s newly published Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right is an important book and a delight. It’s a sociological – almost anthropological – foray into the minds, hearts, and lives of the Tea Party — my own Tribe. Prof. Hochschild’s jacket biography describes … Read more
Trump to name Georgia lawmaker Tom Price as health secretary President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce on Tuesday that he has chosen Republican U. S. Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon and vociferous critic of the Affordable Care Act, as health and human services secretary, two sources told Reuters. If confirmed by the Senate, … Read more
Hilary Clinton’s campaign on Saturday said that it would participate in a recount initiated by Green Party nominee Jill Stein in Wisconsin and said it would take similar action if a recount was initiated in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The campaign has taken a number of steps since election day to review election results and has … Read more