Author: Fotous
Congressional Democrats: Trump ‘Schemed’ to Pressure Ukraine
Congressional Democrats accused President Donald Trump Wednesday of designing “a corrupt scheme” to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s leading 2020...
How Does Climate Affect Credit?
The primary impacts of climate change are obvious, from the unprecedented fires in Australia to the melting ice caps in the Arctic. However more observers are starting to consider secondary impacts, a...
American NGO Unearths Mines in Vietnam to Make Farming Possible
The United States bombed parts of Southeast Asia a generation ago. The fallout of one of the longest military entanglements in American history wreaked havoc on local populations and destroyed much of...
DC Sues Trump Inaugural Committee, Alleging Abuse of Funds
The District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and two companies that control the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital, accusing them of throwing parti...
Biden Downplays Tensions with Sanders Over Social Security
Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders after the two candidates exchanged several volleys over Social Security and other matters. And ...
Trump Hails Growing US-Pakistan Ties During Khan Meeting
President Donald Trump met Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday in Davos, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, and hailed the growing relationship between the United States and Paki...
US Reports First Case of New Coronavirus
The United States is reporting its first case of the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, and has killed at least six people. Health officials in the northwest U.S. state of Washington sai...
Trump Touts US Economy in Davos as Impeachment Trial Begins
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted what he called an economic boom in the United States and also addressed the issue of climate change. Bu...
Tens of Thousands Lobby in Support of Second Amendment
A gun rally in a state south of Washington, DC, had officials on high alert as they worried about violence between gun rights advocates and anti-gun forces. Tens of thousands turned out for the annu...
Puerto Rico Protesters Demand Governor’s Resignation
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the seaside governor’s mansion and Capitol building on Monday in Puerto Rico to demand the U.S. territory’s leader resignation and to protest th...
Thousands Hold Peaceful Pro-Gun Rally in Virginia
Thousands of gun-rights activists, including armed militia members, rallied peacefully Monday in the capital of the southeastern U.S. state of Virginia in opposition to proposed gun control regulation...
Virginia State Capital Braces for Gun Rights Rally
Virginia’s capital city is bracing for the expected arrival of thousands of gun-rights activists and other groups that have vowed to descend on Richmond to protest Democrats’ plans to pass...
White House, House Lawmakers Lay Out Impeachment Cases as Trial Looms
White House lawyers are due to submit Monday a brief detailing their arguments in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump, a day before the proceedings begin in earnest. FILE: Jay Sekulow...
Chiefs, 49ers Earn Super Bowl Spots
The field for this year’s Super Bowl is set, with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers earning the right to play for the National Football League championship on Feb. 2 in Miami. The ...
A Sunday Fight Over Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Key players in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump and his defense argued sharply Sunday whether his efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit him politically were im...
Pompeo Angry Over Death of US Citizen Jailed in Egypt
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “expressed outrage” to Egypt’s president on Sunday at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in an Egyptian pri...