A ‘no’ On Health Care
In a long career as a maverick Republican, it may have been John McCain's defining moment. Donald Trump and his Republicans had rejoiced when the cancer-stricken senator returned to Washington this...
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US Senate Rejects Partial Obamacare Repeal, Bitter Blow To Trump
US Republicans failed spectacularly Friday in their latest effort to dismantle Obamacare, leaving the party in stunned disarray and President Donald Trump's dreams of repealing his predecessor's...
US Health Care Reform Collapses As Two More Republicans Say No
Two more US Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party's efforts to revamp Obamacare, derailing the controversial legislation in its current form and potentially dealing a...
Kenya’s Social Media Election
A strikingly toxic campaign ad was unleashed online in Kenya just weeks before national elections -- a potentially explosive move in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned. The...
McConnell, Republican Leader ‘boxed In’ On Health Care
Mitch McConnell may be Washington's master political tactician, but the Senate majority leader's failure to bring an "Obamacare" repeal bill across the finish line appears as a rare and costly...
Republican Win In Georgia Gives Trump Breathing Room
Finally, some good news for Donald Trump: battling dismal approval ratings, the US president on Wednesday relished a Republican victory in a closely-watched congressional election in Georgia, calling...
An Increasingly Isolated Trump Joins the Battle of His Life
Donald Trump has faced down a litany of scandals in his nearly 71 years, surviving bankruptcy, divorce, lawsuits and vulgar exposes. But less than six months into his White House tenure, he finds...
AJ Sarpong Honoured @ JD Nightlife Awards 2017 Launch
The JACK DANIELS NIGHTLIFE AWARDS 2017 has been launched at an exclusive media soiree with representatives of some of the most influential media brands in the nightlife industry. As part of the...
Republican Accused of ‘bodyslam’ Wins Montana Special Election
A US Republican candidate accused of assaulting a reporter was declared the projected winner of Thursday's Montana special congressional election, which had been considered a bellwether in the...
Maddow and the Trump Effect
Fiercely intelligent, acerbic and relentlessly liberal Rachel Maddow has defied ultra-feminine stereotypes to become the most watched news host in the United States, riding the wave of the Trump...
Trump Will Nominate Callista Gingrich As Vatican Envoy
President Donald Trump is set to nominate Callista Gingrich, wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, to be the next US ambassador to the Vatican. The nomination is expected to be formalized...
Trump To Nominate Callista Gingrich As Vatican Envoy
President Donald Trump is set to nominate Callista Gingrich, wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, to be the next US ambassador to the Vatican, CNN and The New York Times reported. The...
A Grey Man In the American Spotlight
The dramatic sacking of the FBI director has left a bespectacled 52-year-old most Americans have never heard of holding the credibility of the US justice system -- and possibly even its democracy --...
France’s Macron Announces Gender Equal List of Political Outsiders
The president-elect had made several conditions for candidates to sign up to (AFP) The party of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has selected a diverse list of 428 candidates for parliamentary...
US Cities, States Mobilize Against Climate Change Without Trump
Even as President Donald Trump steers the United States away from actively fighting climate change, a number of American cities and states are continuing to pursue renewable energies to reduce their...
Putin Did It To Demean Clinton and Help Elect Trump
Putin did it to demean Clinton and help elect Trump - JAMES CLAPPER So much has been written about former acting Attorney General Sally Yates since President Donald Trump fired her in January for...
Health Care Heads To US Senate, Bitter Fight Expected
With US Republicans relishing a win in the Obamacare repeal process, Democrats Friday girded for battle, warning that despite President Donald Trump's optimism, the health bill's fate is far from...
Trump Asks Whether Civil War Could Have Been ‘worked Out’
US President Donald Trump took a fresh shot at his predecessor Barack Obama and suggested the US Civil War could have been avoided, in a series of media interviews broadcast Monday. Trump told the...
Trump Moves To Review Status of America’s Nature Preserves
After moving to unstitch climate change rules, US President Donald Trump Wednesday opened the door to undoing the federally protected status of some of America's vast nature preserves. He signed an...
Trump Looks To Lift Protections On America’s Vast Nature Preserves
After moving to unstitch climate change rules, US President Donald Trump is turning his sights on America's vast nature preserves, with a view to possibly lifting federal protections brought in over...