President Donald Trump’s profanity-laced Easter Sunday social media post threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran led some Democratic lawmakers to call for his removal via the 25th Amendment.
For perspective on President Trump’s talk about bombing Iran’s bridges and power plants and whether that's legal under international law, Amna Nawaz spoke with retired Lieutenant Colonel Rachel VanLandingham. She spent 20 years in the Air Force and is now a professor at Southwestern Law School.
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump’s shifting deadlines and threats on Iran, questions about his messaging on the war and new polls showing his approval rating slipping amid economic concerns.
... the Biden and Obama administrations, the department interpreted Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education, to include protections for transgender and gay students. The Trump administration has penalized schools that have made efforts to accommodate students based on their gender identity. It has filed lawsuits in California and Minnesota ...
... tomorrow night,” Trump said during his Monday news conference. Power plants in Iran, he continued, would be “burning, exploding and never to be used again.”Trump refused to say whether any civilian targets would be off limits in the U.S. response. Trump lashes out at Pacific allies for not ...
Trump says he’d prefer to ‘take the oil’ Trump said that he’d prefer to use U.S military power to take control of Iran’s vast oil reserves, but acknowledged there’s not much appetite for such a move among the American electorate. “Take the oil because it ...
Iran has rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and instead wants a permanent end to the war, even as President Donald Trump’s ultimatum looms.
President Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, following the rescue of a U.S. aviator who was shot down in Iran.
... work in the (Congress) to permanently preserve a system that's done so much for America.” At a college sports roundtable he hosted last month, Trump said he anticipated any order he signed would trigger litigation. Athletes have largely won the freedom to transfer almost at will via the portal ...
... to rebuild my life and rejoin society. Amna Nawaz: The release comes as the country grapples with an ongoing economic crisis made worse by the Trump administration's limited oil blockade. The arrival this week of a shipment of Russian oil allowed by the U.S. is providing some relief ...
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