After a crushing defeat in the effort to repeal Obamacare, the Trump administration is hoping for smoother sailing on tax reform, expecting this will be less divisive among Republican party factions. “Health care is a very, very complicated issue. In a way (taxes are) a lot simpler,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday. And Vice … Read more
President Donald Trump’s childhood home in the New York borough of Queens has sold for $2.14 million — a premium price for the neighborhood — to an unknown buyer. Built by his father Fred in 1940 in the upmarket enclave of Jamaica Estates, the building served as the president’s home for the first four years … Read more
The fate of Donald Trump’s presidency may hinge on what he does next. His failure to convert the core campaign promise of repealing and replacing Obamacare — even with a GOP monopoly on power in Washington — has left the White House reeling. Trump and his advisers must now regroup and try to figure out … Read more
Donald Trump on Sunday laid blame squarely at the feet of his Republican party’s ultra-conservative wing for the most stinging defeat of his young presidency, holding it responsible for the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare and for weakening a broader effort to curb abortions. “Democrats are smiling in D. C. that the Freedom Caucus, with … Read more
US President Donald Trump says he will turn to tax reform, following his failure to get his healthcare bill through Congress on Friday. The draft bill would have scrapped the Affordable Care Act of his predecessor Barack Obama, which was opposed by Mr Trump’s Republican party for years. Obamacare requires all Americans to have healthcare … Read more
President Donald Trump on Saturday declared that Obamacare will fall apart and vowed to develop a “great” new health care plan for Americans to take its place. “ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!” the Republican said on Twitter. The … Read more
Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Friday evening in an unfamiliar position — having to own failure. His health care reform, his very first significant legislative proposal, had fallen at the first hurdle in a friendly Congress. For sure, the 70-year-old businessman had faltered before — from bankrupt casinos to shuttered hotels. But … Read more
A rape at a Washington area high school has drawn intense scrutiny as part of the immigration debate launched under President Donald Trump, since the two alleged attackers are Latinos who entered the United States illegally. Under normal circumstances, a case like this would not make national headlines. But these are not normal times in … Read more
Emma Thompson revealed in an interview with Sweden’s SVT this week that she turned down a date with Donald Trump while filming 1998’s “Primary Colors.” Bullet, dodged. Or maybe not. Joking with the talk show hosts, Thompson said, “I wish I had [accepted] ? think of the stories!” The invitation had come in the form … Read more
World equity markets wobbled Friday, with US stocks finishing mostly lower, as investors monitored a swirl of negotiations surrounding President Donald Trump’s health care replacement bill, before the surprise decision to cancel the vote in Congress. The fate of the repeal of former president Barack Obama’s signature legislation has been seen by US and international … Read more
Donald Trump suffered a major political blow Friday as he was forced to ask Republican leaders to pull an emblematic health care bill that failed to gather enough support in Congress. House Speaker Paul Ryan “talked to the president at three o’clock today and the president asked the speaker to pull the bill,” a leadership … Read more
A vote on US President Donald Trump’s healthcare bill has been withdrawn at the last minute after it failed to gain enough support to pass in Congress. Mr Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan to pull the bill after it became apparent it would not get the minimum of 215 Republican votes needed. The withdrawal … Read more
President Donald Trump defended some of the most controversial claims of his young political career in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine published Thursday, in which he offered a simple and absolute defense of his method: “I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I … Read more
Donald Trump has never visited “The Late Late Show,” but if he did, James Corden knows exactly what game he’d play. It’s called “Stand By It or Take It Back.” “When [Trump] was running for president, he didn’t stop by our show, but I felt like we had the absolute game to play with Donald … Read more
Before he staged a professional comeback last week, the rapper Kayem had disappeared from public life for two years. A US citizen by birth who remembers his relatives’ suffering at the hands of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime in Libya, he was lying low on legal advice after the US authorities crippled his career by putting him … Read more
Trump at the wheel of a big rig? Yes, it happened — at the White House. US President Donald Trump was rallying votes for his health care reform bill Thursday but made a pit stop in the afternoon to meet with truck drivers and trucking executives. During that meeting, he spent a few minutes happily … Read more
A vote on President Donald Trump’s new health care bill in the House of Representatives has been delayed. The postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on Thursday. The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of … Read more
US President Donald Trump has defended making unsubstantiated claims about wiretapping and election fraud that have damaged his credibility, saying in a new interview he “predicted a lot of things.” When questioned about a litany of controversial statements — from unrest in Sweden, to Brexit, to dues owed by NATO states — Trump told Time … Read more
President Donald Trump’s chest-thumping nationalism and harsh immigration policies are the subject of a new play depicting an apocalyptic America where stadiums are turned into prisons and people become sick, hungry and frightened. “Building the Wall,” which opened last weekend in Los Angeles, was written by Robert Schenkkan, a two-time Tony winner who co-wrote the … Read more
Post-election communications of Donald Trump’s team were swept up in an “incidental collection” by intelligence agencies, a Republican lawmaker says. House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes said individuals were named in “widely disseminated” reports, which he said was “totally inappropriate”. Mr Nunes said this did not back Mr Trump’s claim Barack Obama had ordered Trump … Read more