Universal Magazine
Chinese, Russian and U.S. officials have all said they would like to minimize the threat of nuclear fallout created by the North Korean regime though they are greatly divided on how exactly to work together to reach that goal. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday conflict enveloping the Korean peninsula could create “chaos” for […]
Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in the year 2005—and paid just a small percentage of that in regular federal income taxes. Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston has obtained what appear to be the first two pages of Trump’s 2005 federal income-tax return, and published an analysis of […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan has been defending Donald Trump ever since his formal endorsement of him two days before the November 2016 presidential election. But in a conference call in early October, Ryan told fellow House Republicans he would not “defend Donald Trump — not now, not in the future,” according to […]
A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching security at the White House complex and was discovered by a Secret Service officer by the south entrance to the executive residence, officials said. The incident happened just before midnight while President Donald Trump was at the White House. […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately — including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan. The firings were a surprise […]
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates, sparking protests from her supporters two of whom were killed in clashes with police. Park becomes South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office, capping months of […]
Republicans’ long-awaited plan to replace former US President Barack Obama’s health law is facing opposition from members of their own party. House committees plan to begin voting on the legislation – which would repeal penalties for those who do not buy health insurance – on Wednesday. But congressional Republicans have […]
North Korea launched four missiles Monday morning in tests that coincided with joint military exercises being carried out by the United States and South Korea. From the Washington Post: The four missiles were fired from a known launch site on North Korea’s west coast, not far from the border with China, […]
At least 10 people were arrested and many others bloodied and bruised as a Berkeley rally supporting President Trump turned violent Saturday when fistfights broke out between marchers and counterprotesters, and crowds of masked anarchists joined the fray. “This is a sad day,” Berkeley Councilman Ben Bartlett told reporters. “We’re […]
Donald Trump claims Barack Obama ordered for his offices in New York to be “wire tapped” The allegation – made without showing any evidence – included calling Mr Obama a “bad, or sick, guy”. “Terrible!” the President said. “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower […]