U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley gave an update Thursday on the latest developments emerging from the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, telling reporters that countries at the UN responded "very positive to [Trump's] speech" earlier in the week. "They appreciated how blunt and honest he was ...
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s political news, including President Trump’s wildly different approaches to his address on Afghanistan strategy and his remarks in Phoenix, his attacks on top Republicans in Congress, and his Pentagon directive to ban transgender people from joining the...
RENO, Nev. — Within a 24-hour span, President Donald Trump delivered one speech in which he tore into the media and members of his own party, and a second in which he called for national unity and love. The about-face seemed to reflect the president's real-time internal ...
... leader of the white separatist movement, which calls itself the alt-right, tweeted: Trump has never denounced the alt-right. Nor will he. Before the speech, Mr. Trump met with Border Patrol officers along the Mexican border, and later declared he will do whatever it takes to achieve a signature ...
... the kitchen. A Trump opponent hoisted a sign depicting the president with horns. A day of noisy but largely peaceful protests turned unruly after his speech, as police fired pepper spray at crowds after someone apparently lobbed rocks and bottles at officers. Trump is on a two-day trip to ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: U.S. military and diplomatic leaders are moving ahead on the Afghanistan strategy that President Trump laid out in a speech to the nation last night. His remarks brought reaction today from the region, and the world. Nick Schifrin begins our coverage. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) NICK SCHIFRIN: Today ...
President Donald Trump will delivered a televised address Monday on how the U.S. will proceed in the nation's 16-year war in Afghanistan. Trump refused during his prime-time speech on Afghanistan to discuss the size of the American force that his new strategy requires. White House talking ...
As many as 40,000 counter-protesters overpowered a scheduled "free speech" rally by far-right groups in Boston on Saturday in a largely peaceful showing that did not lead to the violence seen one week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia. By 11 a.m. on Saturday, the counter-protesters -- who ...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning hate speech and bigotry as un-American and antithetical to the values the U.S. was founded on and promotes abroad. In his most extensive comments on race and diversity since last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Tillerson on Friday called ...
... has so far been silent on the president's remarks, and the Justice Department did not immediately say whether he would mention them during the speech. Sessions has said far-reaching federal civil rights investigations of police departments can malign entire agencies and make officers less effective on the streets ...
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