
Because of multiple lawsuits challenging his declaration of a national emergency, we don’t know if President Trump will be able to carry out his plans to use $8 billion in federal funds to build a barrier along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border to reduce illegal immigration.
Even if the courts side with the president – and even if he then uses billions of dollars more to build additional sections of a border barrier – no wall or fence alone will stop immigrants from crossing our southern border in large numbers.
While Free Solo is a film that cauterises cynicism, it would be a shoo-in for most gripping footwear commercial as well as best cinematography.
Alex Honnold’s solo and ropeless climb of the 3,000ft vertical wall of El Capitan in Yosemite has been called a great athletic achievement but this is absurd. It’s tempting to argue that Free Solo should win the Oscar for best documentary simply on the strength of its subject.
A seven-year-old Texas boy has raised approximately $2,000 by selling hot chocolate in support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed southern border wall.
Trump punches back against states suing over border wall emergency declaration. Speaking with KEYE CBS News, the boy’s parents, Shane and Jennifer Stevens, said the family attended Trump’s inauguration and their son got the business idea after watching the State of the Union address earlier this month.
Asian shares were mostly lower Friday after a slide on Wall Street as investors nervously watched the U.S.-China trade talks in Washington.
The U.S. Labor Department said fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than economists expected, an encouraging sign that layoffs are low. Investors are cautious about business conditions going forward as signs of weakness in the global economy emerge.
Albert Edwards, global strategist at Société Générale, cautioned on Thursday that stock markets were becoming “stoned on free money,” leaving them “detached from reality.” It’s a condition that the strategist says could “prove fatal,” in the end.
That is to say, he believes that central bankers’ inability to end easy-money policies that had been put in place to address the 2007-09 financial crisis could lead to more risk-taking on Wall Street that could lead to a fresh crisis.
A seven-year-old boy was harassed and called "Little Hitler" after setting up a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Trump's border wall, his parents say.
Between his hot chocolate stand, a matching donor and Venmo receipts, Benton has raised close to $5,000 - but his parents say it was at the cost of his privacy after videos and photos of their son were posted to Facebook. “People think he’s brainwashed,” his mother, Jennifer, said.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: TRUMP, EX-AIDE CLIFF SIMS AND AN INCREDIBLE FREE SPEECH DEBATE. He also offered his personal view that many of the folks entering through these unapproved areas are gang members who are trafficking in drugs and human slavery.
By spending money not unauthorized by Congress, he has failed to uphold the Constitution, which he has sworn to preserve, protect and defend.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised eyebrows after comparing President Trump’s border wall plans to the Berlin Wall separating communist Germany from the free world.
BILL DE BLASIO CORRECTS OCASIO-CORTEZ'S CLAIM ABOUT SPENDING AMAZON TAX BREAK MONEY. “No matter how you feel about the wall, I think it’s a moral abomination,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the issue of the border wall that Trump has been pushing for since getting into office.
In his State of the Union Address, President Trump called for increased border security to help limit the flow of drugs across our southwest border.
President Trump’s comprehensive plan to secure our border must be adopted in full to successfully repel the continued trafficking of drugs into our country. While a District Attorney in Mississippi, I prosecuted those who sold or transported illegal drugs into our communities.
Egyptian authorities have started work on a concrete barrier around the Sinai resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, which has struggled to attract tourists since a Russian passenger jet crashed in the region shortly after taking off in 2015 in a terrorism-linked attack, killing 224 people.
The Egyptian authorities have since enhanced security measures at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, hoping for the return of flights from Russia and the UK.