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Business 2 Community
April 28, 2018
George H.W. Bush, former U.S. president, dead at 93 is another death hoax. There is no truth to another report that the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 passed away. Rather, this is a second death hoax following the recent death of his wife, Barbara Bush. Where did this death hoaxÃâà...
CNN
April 28, 2018
President Trump spoke for nearly two hours at a rally in Michigan. Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, journalists are gathering for the annual dinner that celebrates the First Amendment — an event that previous presidents attended yearly. President Trump, speaking his rally, took a jab at the White HouseÃâà...
The Sun
April 28, 2018
The new US embassy is situated near the former site of the iconic Battersea Power Station in South West London and was wholly funded by the sale of other properties in London. It is a veritable fortress set back at least 100ft from surrounding buildings - mostly newly-erected high-rise residential blocksÃâà...
The Independent
April 28, 2018
Around 60 per cent of Donald Trump voters said they did not hope to see a female US president in their lifetime, according to a new poll. While 63 per cent of those who voted Republican in 2016 said they thought it was likely they would live to see a woman lead the country, only 40 per cent of them saidÃâà...
LancasterOnline
April 28, 2018
But when U.S. News & World Report published an article Feb. 26, 2007, on America's worst presidents, Buchanan did not even make the cover of the magazine. Instead, Richard Nixon, Hoover, Ulysses S. Grant and John Tyler got the honor. It seems competition for the title of worst president keeps growing.
BBC News
April 28, 2018
US President Donald Trump has said talks with North Korea could take place "over the next three or four weeks". "It's going [to] ... Previous inter-Korean agreements have been abandoned after the North resorted to nuclear and missile tests and the South elected more conservative presidents. Mr Kim saidÃâà...
The National
April 28, 2018
Most likely, the US president Donald Trump will not tear apart the nuclear deal with Iran on May 12. Most likely too, the Europeans will not cave in to Tehran's categorical opposition to adding “a single clause” to the agreement, as Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said. At the White House, the FrenchÃâà...
Bucks County Courier Times
April 28, 2018
They kept their Silver Lake audience in stitches Saturday for more than an hour in the center's auditorium as they spun one tale after another about their experiences with five former U.S. presidents. As they joked, Raber demonstrated his culinary skills by preparing meals for three raffle-winning audienceÃâà...
BBC News
April 26, 2018
US President Donald Trump is to visit the UK on Friday 13 July, after previously cancelling a trip amid claims he would face mass protests. It will not be the full-blown state visit Mr Trump was promised when Prime Minister Theresa May visited the White House in January last year. But an invitation to a stateÃâà...
The Cheat Sheet
April 1, 2018
History reports that Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to make a state visit to another country while in office. On the one international trip of his presidency, Roosevelt traveled to Panama and Puerto Rico. That journey ushered in a new era of presidential travel and diplomatic relations, butÃâà...
Deadline
April 1, 2018
The biggest tweet of the morning was the message that there would be no deal on the DACA issue (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children. “NO MORE DACA DEAL!” tweeted the president at the conclusion of a post claiming the US border withÃâà...
The Hindu
April 1, 2018
Some senior Trump administration officials are pressing for more aggressive action toward Russia, hoping to persuade a reluctant President Donald Trump to change his approach. While aides say the President has become increasingly convinced that Russia is dangerous, he has still refused to embrace aÃâà...
EW.com (blog)
March 31, 2018
Jimmy Carter isn't hold anything back when it comes to his thoughts on the current U.S. president. Stopping by The Late Show to promote his new book Faith, Carter was asked several pointed questions about Donald Trump by host Stephen Colbert. Colbert began the interview segment by complimentingÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 31, 2018
Thus, President Obama has remained a darling of the liberal bourgeoisie and one of the most popular US presidents around the world. In complete contrast, we have his much vilified successor in President Donald Trump. Decried as being loud and crass, this president has been called a White supremacistÃâà...
The Cheat Sheet
March 19, 2018
As much as U.S. presidents want to be imposing figures, they don't exactly have control over their height. James Madison goes down in history as the shortest president ever at just 5 feet 4 inches tall. Chegg reports that Madison was also very slight. In fact, he never weighed more than 100 pounds. HistoryÃâà...
Bitcoinist
March 19, 2018
It seems as if President Trump has thrown a cog in the apparent billion-dollar machine that is Venezuela's Petro. According to Bloomberg, the US president issued a prohibition order on Monday banning the country's citizens from going anywhere near the South American country's first state-issued virtualÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
March 19, 2018
That last encounter happened after months of behind-the-scenes organisation, as much as will have gone into any game played during this week's visit, the first by an American president out of office since the then businessman Donald Trump was in Auckland in 1997. Is there much tangible benefit to theseÃâà...
CNBC
March 19, 2018
Fast forward 20 years, and a U.S. president is again facing "fresh revelations of potentially criminal conduct" on a near-daily basis, only this time the president is Trump, diGenova's new client. In the past week alone, Trump and those closest to him have faced fresh allegations of obstructing justice, falsifyingÃâà...
Tifton Gazette
March 19, 2018
The President of the United States must be the solution to the problems that we are facing in this country.” Pridgon cited several issues that he particularly feels should be addressed. He felt that the federal government has overlooked the needs of the citizens in Puerto Rico after the devastating storms ofÃâà...
NPR
March 19, 2018
President Trump outlined a wide-ranging plan to combat the opioid epidemic on Monday, including an ad campaign to discourage drug use, expand addiction treatment and pursue a get-tough approach to law enforcement. "Whether you are a dealer or doctor or trafficker or a manufacturer, if you break theÃâà...
CNBC
March 12, 2018
North Korean media noted a visit by a senior delegation from South Korea last week but no coverage has been seen of Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump or South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss the future of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. Trump agreed toÃâà...
BBC News
March 12, 2018
US President Donald Trump's plan to deter school shootings does not include his repeated calls to raise the age for buying semi-automatic rifles to 21. But he is moving ahead with his controversial proposal to provide firearms training to school employees. The president tweeted that there was not muchÃâà...
CNN
March 12, 2018
"Pennsylvania is the state that gave us the 45th president of the United States." This is beyond third person. It's like fourth person, says a reporter for CNN. 4. "A lot of evil. A lot of bad people. A lot of bad people." This is Trump talking about Washington. It's a throwaway line, but think about what he is sayingÃâà...
Business Insider
March 12, 2018
Vacations and weekend getaways help US presidents cope with the pressures of leading the country. John F. Kennedy frequented Hyannis Port in Massachusetts. Ronald Reagan had a ranch in California. And President Donald Trump has a golf course in New Jersey and his famous Mar-a-Lago private resort in Florida.
The Asia Sentinel
March 12, 2018
Figuring out what might happen next in the US-North Korea relationship is more than unknown. It is almost in the realm of “unknown unknowns.” But the place to start may be with recognizing that US President Donald Trump has got to where he is now, supposedly agreeing to meet with Kim Jong-un, almostÃâà...
BBC News
March 9, 2018
President Trump has signed controversial orders imposing heavy tariffs on steel and aluminium - but some countries will be spared. Mr Trump has said the US is suffering from "unfair trade" and that the move would boost US industry. But countries have expressed outrage at his plans, and experts haveÃâà...
Reason (blog)
March 9, 2018
There has been no shortage of skepticism and derision pointed at Trump's move, which would mark the first time a U.S. president has ever met with the head of North Korea, with which Washington is still technically at war. For instance, Naval War College professor and The Death of Expertise author TomÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 4, 2018
The White House did not respond to a request for comment late Saturday. US presidents, by tradition, served a maximum of two, four-year terms, until President Franklin Roosevelt was elected a record four times, starting in 1932. An amendment to the US Constitution, approved in 1951, limits presidents toÃâà...
History
February 28, 2018
In the beginning, the U.S. had no presidential term limits because it had no president at all under the Articles of Confederation. Granted, there was a president of the Continental Congress in the 1780s, but it was not a chief executive position. The Articles' framers in the Second Continental CongressÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
There are a lot of things that voters want presidents take care of that perhaps they should be thinking about differently. SHAPIRO: Just to give us a sense of what the job today entails, you list at one point in this article the things that President Obama did in the days leading up to the raid that killed Osama binÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
December 31, 1999
The Trump-administration-imposed China tariffs and the beginnings of the Chinese retaliation are dominating the headlines and are certainly to blame for the sell-off in the stock market last week. Still, some traders say that the market was ripe for a retest of the February lows, as it was rebounding on weakÃâà...
