The CEO of the Panama Canal has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s allegation that the waterway built by the United States over a century ago is now under the control of China. ‘The accusations that China is running the Canal are unfounded,’ Panama Canal Authority leaderRicaurte Vásquez Morales told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. ‘China has no involvement whatsoever in ...
The House passed legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court on Thursday in protest of its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In one of the new Congress’ first acts, the bill passed 243-140, with 45 Democrats joining Republicans in support of it. The bill now heads to the Senate, where Republican Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has promised ...
The Kremlin on Thursday said it is closely monitoring the ‘dramatic’ comments made by President-elect Donald Trump over his desire to acquire Greenland amid his expansionist rhetoric to take over the Panama Canal and assume Canada as a ’51st state.’ ‘The Arctic is a zone of our national interests, our strategic interests,’ Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to a Reuters transcript. ‘We are ...
House Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill for the United States to repurchase the Panama Canal after President-elect Trump raised concerns that the critical waterway is under Chinese control. The bill, named the Panama Canal Repurchase Act, was introduced by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., a member of the Select Committee on China and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. ‘President ...
President-elect Donald Trump and his former Vice President Mike Pence shook hands at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday in their first public interaction in four years. Pence was seen standing up to shake Trump’s hand as the former president arrived inside Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral for the funeral. After the two acknowledged each other and appeared to say ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra warned against the impact of a preemptive presidential pardon for people like Dr. Anthony Fauci just hours after President Biden said in an interview that he was still considering it. ‘It sinks my heart to think that we’re going to use the pardon process in a way that will follow the whims of ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra warned against the impact of a preemptive presidential pardon for people like Dr. Anthony Fauci just hours after President Biden said in an interview that he was still considering it. ‘It sinks my heart to think that we’re going to use the pardon process in a way that will follow the whims of ...
A group of more than 60 former Democratic and Republican attorneys general sent a new letter to Senate leaders Thursday urging the confirmation of Pam Bondi to head up the Department of Justice, praising what they described as Bondi’s wealth of prosecutorial experience— including during her eight years as Florida’s top prosecutor—that they said makes her especially qualified for the ...
A group of more than 60 former Democratic and Republican attorneys general sent a new letter to Senate leaders Thursday urging the confirmation of Pam Bondi to head up the Department of Justice, praising what they described as Bondi’s wealth of prosecutorial experience— including during her eight years as Florida’s top prosecutor—that they said makes her especially qualified for the ...
After meeting with President Biden at the White House on Monday, Edmundo Gonzalez, the man who won Venezuela’s presidential election in July, traveled to Argentina and then Panama with the ballots to prove that he, not Nicolás Maduro, is Venezuela’s democratically elected leader. ‘We elected by a landslide, a good man and Edmundo Gonzalez. We have the proof of that ...