Month: January 2020

Associated Press Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed alarm following a New York Times report about Ukraine and is demanding that four key witnesses testify in the Senate impeachment trial. “This new story shows all four witnesses we Senate Democrats have requested — Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton, Michael Duffey, and Robert Blair — were…

The year 2020 will most likely mark the end of President Trump’s impeachment saga, but it won’t stop the flow of scandals from this White House. It probably won’t even bring real resolution to the Ukraine scandal that set the impeachment in motion. We might be stuck with the refuse of this presidency forever, condemned…

AP Photo/Steve Helber In a now-deleted Monday tweet, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli blamed a Saturday stabbing at a rabbi’s home in New York on illegal immigration and amnesty laws. On Saturday, an attacker wielding a machete wounded five Jewish individuals gathering in the home of a Hasidic rabbi to…

After a leader in the Trump administration came under fire for seemingly trying to turn the latest violent anti-Semitic attack in New York into an anti-immigrant parable, the target of his smear responded Tuesday, calling his comments “a disgrace.” Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, claimed in a Monday morning…

You have a substantial retirement portfolio. You’re an accomplished investor. You’ve done truly well selecting stocks. You probably already own a couple of Zacks Top Retirement stock picks like: Banner (BANR), FNF Group (FNF) and First American Financial (FAF). If that sounds like you, should you actively trade your own retirement assets? It could be…

Ivana Trump a accordé un entretien à ABC News, lundi 9 octobre. En pleine promotion de son livre Raising Trump, l’ancienne épouse de Donald Trump a envoyé un pique à l’actuelle First Lady. Une mauvaise blague que Melania Trump n’a vraiment pas appréciée. « Du bruit pour attirer l’attention », voilà comment la porte-parole de…

For this end-of-the year installment of “Points of Progress,” we asked six Monitor correspondents to survey their regions and tell us what they saw as the significant steps of progress made there in the past year. What follows is the result.  We began this weekly feature in response to the fact that the news media…

(Bloomberg) — Protesters across India are planning to use the New Year’s eve holiday to throw street parties to continue their fight against the country’s new religion-based citizenship law that they say is discriminatory. Activist and student groups in New Delhi and several other cities have taken to social media asking people to join them…

On Wednesday, cries of “kagaz nahin dikhayenge” (we wont show papers), “Tanasahi nahin chalegi” (we won’t allow dictatorship) rang out at the iconic India Gate in Delhi as protesters took a pledge to defend the constitution and continue to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new citizenship law. Thousands of Indians brought in the New Year…

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Zeba Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks. The protests have rocked India since Dec. 12, when the government passed legislation easing the…