US: McCabe reveals why he ordered Trump obstruction probe
By Jeffrey Rodack From Newsmax Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, said he ordered obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving Donald Trump and his ties to Russia, shortly after the president fired James Comey as director…
The global economy is living dangerously – but don’t expect superpowers to follow the 2008 script
By Ben Chu, The Independent From Business Insider Twelve months ago, the global economic outlook was encouraging. Now things are looking far less rosy. US growth is expected to slow from 2.9 percent in 2018 to 2.5 percent in 2019,…
Amphibian that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump
From BBC US presidents tend to receive their fair share of honours, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one. A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after him, apparently in…
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agree to trade truce, no additional tariffs, China state media says
By Zhou Xin From South China Morning Post US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agree to a trade truce in their dinner meeting Saturday Deal includes no trade tariffs after January 1, according to Chinese state media…
10 Terrible reasons why people don’t vote
By Laura Goldman From Care2 In the past five presidential election years, more than one-third of voting-age Americans didn’t bother to cast a ballot. In fact, only 65 percent of Americans are registered to vote. When comparing voter turnout rates…
Melania Trump in Africa
Melania Trump carves solo path in Africa visit By AFP From This Is Money UK Melania Trump, who hosted the spouses of foreign leaders during the UN General Assembly, is making her first big solo international trip — to Ghana,…
Why does Betsy D family yacht fly a foreign flag? Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ administration and the Cayman Islands
BY DAVID SIROTA From Newsweek This story is being co-published with Capital&Main When someone untied a yacht owned by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s family, the episode was portrayed as an example of anti-Trump harassment. But the yacht’s foreign…
US City of Fear
This story is a collaboration with The Marshall Project. From New York Mag 20,000 of New York’s immigrants have been identified for deportation since Trump took office. The rest worry they’ll be next. An estimated half a million New Yorkers are…
Putin hedges Trump bet by dumping Treasuries to safeguard assets
From Newsmax Russian officials are hoping Vladimir Putin’s rapport with Donald Trump will lead to rapprochement with the U.S. But they’re not taking any chances. A U.S. Treasury report this week appears to show Russia liquidating dollar assets at a…
OPINION: A monster of a President?
By Ewin James How does a man become a monster, if men can become monsters ? How does an ordinary man, with the virtues and vices of other men become the worst person on earth so that to protect people…