The Obama Administration should protect those “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally but later granted legal temporary status to stay, a U. S. congresswoman said on Tuesday. The Obama Administration in the remaining term should take legal action to prevent those who enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and … Read more
United States President-elect Donald J Trump’s potential pivot to isolationism could impact the aid money that the US spends on health, education, agriculture and humanitarian crises across Nigeria, and Africa as a whole. Nigeria is set to lose over $1.6 billion dollars in a five-year developmental assistance support agreement signed with the Obama administration in … Read more
U. S. officials are striving to put finishing touches on a slew of banking rules before President Barack Obama leaves office and hands regulatory power to Donald Trump who has vowed to rewrite the existing financial rule book. President-elect Trump will take over on Jan. 20 and his fellow Republicans will have control of Congress … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street Journal that he also favoured allowing young … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said in an interview he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged repeatedly to repeal the 2010 law, signalled he was receptive to a compromise after visiting the White House on Thursday. He told the Wall Street Journal he … Read more
Expert Views: What will be the impact of Trump presidency on immigration, refugees? The election of Republican Donald Trump to be the next U. S. president raises questions about the impact his administration could have upon immigrants in the United States and the nation’s immigration and refugee policies. During his campaign Trump took a hardline … Read more
Former United States Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton phoned real estate magnate Donald Trump in the early morning hours of November 9 to concede defeat in the national presidential elections. During the course of 2015-2016, the corporate media networks were highly critical of all campaigns outside the one conducted by Clinton. Nonetheless, both … Read more
play videoMajority of people are voting on Tuesday to elect a new President of the United States Watch how the 2016 US Elections are panning out in real time. Who is going to replace Barack Obama as the most powerful person in the world? Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in … Read more
I will first begin with the Obama administration and its policy toward Liberia. The administration was faced with a weak economy left by the Bush government. When Obama took office in 2009, unemployment was about 7.2%. Despite the Democrats having control of both houses, the economy was down. Like in Clinton’s first term, the Democrats … Read more
President Barack Obama warned against FBI “leaks” and “innuendo” in his first public comments about the agency’s decision to disclose its new review into emails that could be relevant to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state. Speaking to NowThisNews in an interview released Wednesday, Obama said he didn’t … Read more
Donald Trump criticized the Obama administration’s move to normalize relations with Cuba as a “very weak agreement,” though he said some sort of a deal is “fine,” in an interview with a local CBS station in Miami over the weekend. The Republican nominee also said he would do “whatever you have to do to get … Read more
Government missed its budget deficit target in the first seven months of 2016 as the government raised less revenue than forecast and exceeded spending plans for goods, services and capital expenditure. An overall budget shortfall of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product was recorded from January through July as against the target of 3 percent. … Read more
Despite the failure of the Middle East policy, the United States has not abandoned its strategy aimed at global domination to be reached with the help of military might. Libya, Somalia and Mali may become a bridgehead for an intervention to encompass other countries under the pretext of fighting terrorists. President Obama, a Nobel Peace … Read more
Congress has voted to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabian officials. In the first veto override of his presidency, the Senate voted 97-1 and the House of Representatives 348-77, meaning the bill becomes law. Mr Obama told CNN the lawmakers had made … Read more
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea to the African-American community Saturday night to help stop Donald Trump, saying he would consider it a “personal insult” to his legacy if black voters didn’t turn out for Hillary Clinton. Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus gala for the last time as president, Obama warned that while his … Read more
The Trump campaign has acknowledged in a statement that President Obama was born in the US. The Republican candidate had been a leader of the “birther” movement that questioned Hawaii-born Mr Obama’s citizenship. But his campaign now accuses his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of introducing the “smear” during the 2008 Democratic nomination contest. There is … Read more