By Delphine Schrank TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) – Thousands of Central American migrants traveling together to enter the United States have hunkered down in shelters in a southern Mexico city along its border with Guatemala, according to local officials. The migrants pose a tough challenge to the Mexican government’s pledge to stop the illegal travelers’…
The outlook for global growth in 2019 has dimmed for the first time, according to Reuters polls of economists who said the U.S.-China trade war and tightening financial conditions would trigger the next downturn.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the United States should consider the consequences, both for Europe and for future disarmament efforts, of pulling out of an international treaty aimed at eliminating a class of nuclear weapons. President Donald Trump justified his decision, announced on Saturday, to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces…
A combination of the overturning of the Republican gerrymander and Trump’s unpopularity could flip up to 4 House seats to Democrats in North Carolina. The Princeton Election Consortium found some interesting data in North Carolina: Disapproval of Trump has hit North Carolina particularly hard. In four Congressional districts where polls are available – the 2nd,…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has opened up a 12 point lead over Republican Ron DeSantis (54%-42%) as Florida women are backing Democrats.
Latosha Brown of Black Voters Matter said that the effort to intimidate senior black voters in Georgia failed as the seniors who were pulled off of their bus are voting and taking friends and family with them to vote.
The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender by genitalia, which would eliminate civil rights protections for transgendered persons.
Nate Silver is out with his latest forecast, and it shows that Democrats have an 85% chance of winning the House.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke had the perfect answer to Trump’s trolling and shut the president down in less than half a minute.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that he doesn’t buy the Saudi story on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, which is something that the Saudi royal family owned Trump will never say.
President Trump is reportedly very unhappy with the relationship between his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. In fact, according to an account of a phone interview with the Washington Post late Saturday, Trump believes that Kushner is more of a liability than an asset, and he is hurting relations between…
A senior Saudi government official speaking to Reuters news agency has offered new details concerning the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd. Amid scepticism, Saudi official provides another version of Khashoggi death https://t.co/OoNNzCYrXi — Reuters (@Reuters) October 21, 2018 The latest account was provided by a…
The battle for the U.S. Senate may come down to Nevada where the race between Senate candidates Dean Heller and Jacky Rosen is a dead heat. In fact, the headline in The Huffington Post this morning reads “Nevada Senate Race Down to the Wire.†If the Democrat Rosen can win in Nevada, and if Democrats…
Amnesty International and several other leading global human rights organizations are calling for the United Nations to investigate the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In addition to Amnesty International, the groups include the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. They have joined together to ask Turkey to pressure the…
