President Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 7. (Associated Press) President Trump said Tuesday that he will double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada, escalating a trade war with the United States’ northern neighbor. Trump said on social media … Read more
Vice President JD Vance arrives Tuesday at the Capitol to meet with House Republicans ahead of the House vote on a continuing resolution that would provide a six-month funding extension and avert a government shutdown. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) Republicans will face a critical test of their unity when a spending bill that would … Read more
Lawmakers who believe President Clinton should be punished but not impeached are struggling with the wording of a censure resolution that is harsh enough to win votes from presidential critics but not so vicious that Clinton’s allies refuse to sign. Rep. Paul McHale (D-Pa.), the first Democrat to call for Clinton’s resignation, defended his sternly … Read more
Trump administration appears to violate law in forcing asylum seekers back to Mexico, officials warn From the roadside, Oswaldo Ortiz-Luna offered a box of candy to the cars idling in the golden dust of northern Mexico. His wife hawked another box of sweets farther up the line of traffic, perching their 18-month-old daughter on one … Read more
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. –Dan Quayle in a speech to the United Negro College Fund, May, 1989 Let me begin by saying that I think it is a mistake to get too worked up over what … Read more
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listens during a briefing with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III at the Pentagon on Sept. 1, 2021. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) Lamenting “pain and anger” over the two-decade Afghanistan war, the Pentagon’s top two officials acknowledged the end of a losing … Read more
The yellow banners in the auditorium of the Assumption Convent School read, “Thank God for Cory,” and a couple of the older nuns in the audience beamed with pride when presidential candidate Corazon Aquino took the stage. It was Cory Aquino’s old school, one of the series of Catholic convents, academies, high schools and colleges … Read more
Judy Nguyen is frustrated that anyone with enough money or the right connections can run as a candidate in an election. She’s disappointed she hasn’t seen immediate, tangible change under President Biden. And she feels for Americans who are trying to survive in an era when gas prices are skyrocketing and baby formula is scarce. … Read more
Are you black enough? Despite the rising American death toll in a divisive war, record gasoline prices and homes lost to foreclosure in historic numbers, this was the one question that I knew Sen. Barack Obama would be asked by Internet voters at the Democratic CNN-YouTube debate. It is a question that dogs not only … Read more
An attempt by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to mend troubled relations with the gay community was met Saturday with occasional hisses and boos at a public meeting that turned into a critique of the candidate’s gay rights positions. Dukakis stuck tenaciously to his views during the tense half-hour session, finally defending the Massachusetts policy … Read more
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