“I’m not going there,” one GOP senator said when asked about racially charged insults the president has directed toward African Americans and others. The studied avoidance reflects the reluctance of Republicans to confront some of Trump’s often divisive and inflammatory remarks.
The plan, which would let states set emission standards for coal plants, would make only slight cuts to overall emissions of pollutants by 2030, an EPA analysis shows. That could result in hundreds of millions more tons of carbon dioxide being released into the air compared to Obama-era rules.
The Take
Analysis President Trump’s order to revoke the security clearance of critic and former CIA director John Brennan has generated a kind of collective rebuttal rarely, if ever, seen in relations between a president and those who have gathered the nation’s secrets.
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1938–2018 Annan’s popular and influential reign at the United Nations — the body he led from 1997 to 2006 — was marred by White House anger at his opposition to the American invasion of Iraq.
The former cricket star vowed to build a “new Pakistan,” but now he also has to tackle thorny economic problems.
The Russian Embassy had jabbed at U.S. prosecutors over D.C. jail conditions for the alleged covert agent.
The president said “mistakes are being made” just two weeks after some social media companies banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Retropolis
The Past, Rediscovered Queen Elizabeth’s cousin is expected to wed in the first same-sex royal wedding this summer — but he is far from the first gay British royal, according to historians.
Swiss officials said the couple's refusal to shake hands with interviewers signaled a lack of integration. Some Muslims, with the exception of certain relatives, do not physically touch members of the opposite sex.
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