Trump says he’s looking closely at Amazon contract with Pentagon
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration was looking closely at Amazon’s contract with the U.S. Defense Department after getting complaints from other tech companies.
Trump distances himself from ‘send her back’ chants
Facing a backlash, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday distanced himself from supporters’ chants of “send her back” after he criticized Somali-born Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar at a rally in North Carolina.
‘Send her back’ chant at Trump rally catches Republicans off guard
Chants of “send her back” by supporters of President Donald Trump, attacking Somali-born U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, triggered a wave of concern among congressional Republicans on Thursday, while Omar said Trump was “spewing fascist ideology.”
Factbox: More Republicans hit Trump’s attacks on minority congresswomen after ‘send her back’ chant
More Republican lawmakers complained on Thursday about U.S. President Donald Trump’s inflammatory attacks on four Democratic lawmakers, all minority women, after chants of “send her back” by Trump supporters at a rally targeted one of them.
U.S. House passes bill to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by October 2025, a big win for workers and labor groups, even as it remained unlikely the bill would pass a Republican-controlled Senate.
Documents detail Trump team’s efforts to arrange payment to porn star
Documents released by a judge’s order on Thursday detailed a flurry of communications involving Donald Trump, his campaign team, personal lawyer Michael Cohen and others to engineer hush-money payments shortly before the 2016 election to an adult-film …
UK opposition leader Corbyn calls remarks by President Trump racist
Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the comments by President Donald Trump about four minority Democratic congresswomen are racist and called on the candidates to be the country’s next prime minister to use the term.
Trump administration, Congress agree on spending levels: Mnuchin
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that the Trump administration and congressional leaders have agreed on broad spending levels for the next two fiscal years, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not confirm there was a deal.
Documents on Trump ex-lawyer’s porn star hush payment released
Hundreds of pages of documents regarding hush-money payments by Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to a porn star and a Playboy model who said they had sexual encounters with the president were made public on Thursday, offering a windo…
UK foreign minister calls U.S. ‘send her back’ chanting deeply concerning: TV
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that chants at a President Trump rally of “send her back” were deeply concerning, Channel 5 reported.
