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Constitutionally perilous
Donald Trump’s counter-blast has astonished the United States of America and not the least because of its timing. And seldom in the country’s history has the presidency been mired in the kind of turmoil that it now contends with ~ two years after the presidential election and two days after the midterm convulsion. The Democrats’ …
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November 12, 2018 -
USA: A time to build bridges
As one of the most talked about and, perhaps, controversial US Midterm Elections comes to an end, the US, as a nation, remains where it was before the election started. That is at a crossroads, where the only good outcome would be for the two parties – Democrats and Republicans – to come together, talk …
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November 9, 2018 -
Fractured America
The historic “blue wave”, the consummation devoutly wished for by the Democrats, has eluded the United States of America. The outcome of the midterm elections scarcely signifies a wholesale rejection of Trumpist policies at home and abroad, though the President must of necessity betray abundant caution in his renewed innings at the crease. Neither the …
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November 9, 2018 -
US dollar rises amid concerns over split Congress after elections
Investors kept a close watch on whether Democrats will claw back control of the US House of Representatives and Republicans will hold on to its Senate majority.
November 7, 2018 -
Somali refugee, Palestine immigrant become first two Muslim women in US Congress
Democrats won back the House of Representatives but President Donald Trump’s Republicans maintained their Senate majority in crucial midterms, networks projected Tuesday.
November 7, 2018 -
US midterm polls | Democrats capture House, Trump’s Republicans keep Senate
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 seats in the 100-member Senate and 36 governorships were up for grabs.
November 7, 2018 -
A show trial gone bad
The controversial and bitterly fought confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has solidified a 5-4 conservative split on the highest court in the United States that is likely to persist for decades. More important, however, is how the confirmation process revealed — and exacerbated — the polarization of the current U.S. …
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October 9, 2018 -
Quiet resistance
Is Donald Trump facing quiet resistance? This was the dominant query in the perspective of America’s civil society on Thursday when the head of the fountainhead of libertarian democracy debunked the venerable New York Times. The US President has accused the paper of committing “treason” for having published an opinion piece by an anonymous senior …
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September 8, 2018 -
Guns and Goons
The gun culture is haunting America. The country is running out of superlatives to describe its frequent massacres. In the latest outrage at Parkland High School in Florida, 17 people were killed and many more were injured. It was America’s deadliest school shooting in the past five years. The police identified the gunman as Nicholas …
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March 23, 2018 -
Senate majority leader announces 2-year budget accord
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday announced a “bipartisan agreement” between Republicans and Democrats on a two-year budget deal just two days before the deadline for another government shutdown. He also said that the deal has the support of the White House, although he did not provide any specifics in that regard, Efe reported. …
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February 8, 2018 -
US government shuts down, Donald Trump blames Democrats
The US government officially shutdown today for the first time in five years after lawmakers failed to agree on a spending deal. Congress didn’t pass the budget before the midnight Friday deadline which paved the way for shutdown. US President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the shutdown which comes exactly a year after he was …
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January 20, 2018 -
Trump accuses Democrats of being all-talk, no-action on DACA fix
The United States President on Saturday accused Democrats of squandering a chance to work out a legislative solution for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented migrants. In remarks on Twitter, Donald Trump said he did not believe the opposition party truly wanted to negotiate a new arrangement for so-called Dreamers (undocumented migrants brought to the …
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January 14, 2018 -
Quietly, Trump packs American courts
While President Donald Trump for most of the year struggled on the legislative front, his administration was quietly succeeding at nominating and installing powerful right-wing judges at an unprecedented rate for a president’s first year in office. With the US Senate’s confirmation of a 12th circuit court judge earlier this month, Mr Trump set a …
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December 27, 2017 -
8.8 million people sign up for Obamacare despite Donald Trump’s ‘repeal’ declaration
A total of 8.8 million people have signed up for Obamacare health insurance plans for 2018 despite the Republicans attacks on the healthcare law. The robust enrolment pace defies President Donald Trump’s insistence that the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare is “dead” and will likely make Republican efforts to dismantle the 2010 healthcare law even …
December 22, 2017 -
Verdict in Alabama
Donald Trump has been flagged. An election in one of the 50 states in America would scarcely have been of much moment were it not for the huge stakes involved in the diehard Republican state of Alabama. The Democrat, Doug Jones, has defeated his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, who was backed by President Trump. The …
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December 14, 2017 -
Trump’s tax ‘triumph’
The starry-eyed euphoria ~ “momentous” and “landmark” are among the superlatives used ~ over the passage of the US tax bill has simultaneously been tempered with the thought that it was bulldozed after a nightlong legislative session that was attended by only a handful of Republicans… and no Democrats. The inhospitable timing, let alone the …
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December 6, 2017 -
Trump weighs ‘decertifying’ Iran nuclear deal
President Donald Trump has railed against a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, but officials say that far from scrapping it, he is considering kicking the decision to Congress. Ahead of an October 15 deadline, several officials familiar with White House deliberations said, Trump has made it clear he does not want to certify Iran’s …
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October 4, 2017