By: Avery Anapol – thehill.com – July 10, 2018 Lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a motion supporting NATO, as President Trump continues to criticize the alliance ahead of his summit in Europe. The nonbinding motion, which came as the Senate voted to reconcile its version of the annual defense policy bill with that of the House, expresses...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – June 16, 2018 President Trump has just slapped a 25 percent tariff on about $50 billion worth of Chinese products. His complaint is that China imposes significantly higher tariffs on the U.S. than the U.S. imposes on China. According to the World Trade Organization, the president is correct. Trump has been relentless in his...

By:  Samuel Chamberlain – www.FoxNews.com – June 26, 2018 How much damage has family separations issue done to Trump? Newt Gingrich breaks down the optics of the president’s handling of the immigration debate. Attorneys general from 17 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its policy of separating families who cross the U.S-Mexico border illegally....

By: Adam Liptak & Michael D. Shear – www.nytimes.com – June 26, 2018 The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to control immigration at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border....

By: Elizabeth Zwirz – foxnews.com – June 26, 2017 Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao tried to intercede between protesters and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as they continually asked McConnell why he was “separating families,” at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The couple was departing an event held at Georgetown University, The Hill reported, when the individuals...

By: Kaitlyn Schallhorn – foxnews.com – June 26, 2018 Supreme Court reaches decision on the Trump administration’s travel ban. The Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban that affected a handful of Muslim-majority nations. In what is the first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said presidents have...

By: Nikki Haley – humanrightsvoices.org – June 2, 2018 “The president of Venezuela, whose government shoots protesters in the street, recently thanked the international community for its ‘universal vote of confidence’ in that country’s commitment to human rights. The Cuban deputy foreign minister, whose government imprisons thousands of political opponents, once said Cuba has historic prestige ‘in the promotion and...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 18, 2018 It’s time for legislative impotence to end. One presidential administration enters into a consent decree that creates a “nationwide policy for the detention, release, and treatment of minors in the custody” of federal immigration authorities and makes it binding on future administrations. Another administration unilaterally implements a “catch and release” policy...

By: By Mark Landler – nytimes.com – June 12, 2018 In a day of personal diplomacy that began with a choreographed handshake and ended with a freewheeling news conference, President Trump deepened his wager on North Korea’s leader on Tuesday, arguing that their rapport would bring the swift demise of that country’s nuclear program. Mr. Trump, acting more salesman than...

By: Josh Shepherd – stream.org – June 10, 2018 Following a months-long process of advance work, on Tuesday President Donald Trump and North Korea supreme leader Kim Jong Un are expected to meet face-to-face in Singapore. It will be the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean head of state. On Thursday, President Trump noted the meeting...