Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was never briefed on intelligence that Russians offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing U.S troops. “Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan …
Read More »Biden surging ahead in some polls, but next U.S. president still far from certain
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is ahead in the polls, but experts said the winner of the 2020 race to the White House is still far from a done deal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent civil unrest, U.S. President Donald Trump has come …
Read More »Trump signs executive order to protect monuments from vandalism
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump Friday said on social media that he has signed an executive order to protect the country’s monuments. “I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combatting recent Criminal Violence,” …
Read More »Trump administration asks Supreme Court to invalidate ObamaCare
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday night argued in a legal brief filed to the Supreme Court that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be invalidated, local media reported. “The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate, though the scope of …
Read More »Trump celebrates border wall milestone during Arizona visit
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated the completion of 200 miles (around 320 km) of border wall along the border with Mexico during his visit to the southwestern state of Arizona on Tuesday. The president flew to Yuma, a city in southwest Arizona, on Air Force One …
Read More »No other developed country “doing so badly” in fighting COVID-19: NYT columnist
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The United States “is too broken to fight” the novel coronavirus, and “no other developed country is doing so badly,” a columnist for The New York Times wrote on Monday. “Graphs of the coronavirus curves in Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy look like mountains, with steep …
Read More »Trump signs executive order halting certain work visas through 2020
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order suspending the issuance of a number of certain employment-based visas through the end of 2020, including the H-1B which are used for highly skilled workers and common in the tech industry. “Temporary workers are often accompanied …
Read More »One dead in shooting at Seattle protest movement autonomous zone
Los Angeles, United States, | AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | A man was shot dead and another seriously injured Saturday in a police-free autonomous zone created by protesters in the US city of Seattle, where officers were prevented from accessing the victims, officials said. The area, set up as part …
Read More »U.S. judge denies Trump administration’s request to block Bolton’s memoir
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | A federal judge on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request to block the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir. “While Bolton’s unilateral conduct raises grave national security concerns, the government has not established that an injunction is an appropriate remedy,” Royce Lamberth, district …
Read More »Trump fires prosecutor who refused to resign, says U.S. attorney general
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Saturday that President Donald Trump has fired Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, who refused to step down over unfinished investigations. In a letter to Berman, Barr accused of him choosing “public spectacle over …
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