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GOLDSBORO, NC (Eagle News) — Smoke pours into the sky as authorities respond to a fire reported near Martin Luther King Highway in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The fire is causing major traffic delays in the area and, according to reports of local residents, is said to be burning at the Eastern Aluminium Supply building. (Eagle News Service, Bernadette Raguini, EBC Washington D.C. Bureau)
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump accused Friday the FBI director he fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath. In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves Tuesday, Comey said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about everything. “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in […]
by Paul Handley and Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to become Washington’s top diplomat pledged Thursday to work with US allies to strengthen the Iran deal and played down fears he is bent on regime change in North Korea. Mike Pompeo, the outgoing director of the Central Intelligence Agency, disavowed his reputation as a “war hawk” and an anti-Muslim hardliner as he sought to woo support […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse Former FBI director James Comey says in a new book that President Donald Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him, and lied about everything. According to excerpts of the book leaked by US media on Thursday, Trump was also obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by Trump urinated […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US House Speaker Paul Ryan’s shock retirement announcement marks the latest victory in a populist, anti-establishment revolution that brought its champion Donald Trump to power and is remaking the Republican Party. Whether that spells longterm GOP success in policymaking, diplomacy and at the ballot box remains unclear. Trumpism is ascendant in Washington but is a permanent Republican shift away from conservative orthodoxy and the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday the US could re-enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership if it could get a “better” deal. The decision would mark an abrupt about-face for a president who had campaigned against the deal and swiftly withdrew from it after taking office last year. “Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama,” he wrote in a late night tweet. “We […]
MEXICO (AFP) — Their lips often curve into a tentative smile as they face the camera, but the Central American migrants crossing Mexico toward the United States have little reason to be happy. The migrant caravan’s trek triggered the fury of US President Donald Trump, who demanded the Mexican government stop them and ordered thousands of National Guard troops to reinforce the border. Holding the few things they brought with them on their journey — […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Teachers in the Midwestern US state of Oklahoma called off their historic demonstration at the state Capitol Thursday, with their demands for additional public school funding only partially met. Tens of thousands of teachers, students and other supporters had rallied in Oklahoma City and swarmed the state Capitol building since April 2. The protesters shut down schools across the state and demanded that the Republican-controlled legislature pass funding measures to restore […]
BELGIUM (AFP) — The European Commission on Thursday called on Facebook to “cooperate fully” with investigators into the scandal over the harvesting of personal data of millions of users which were then shared with the British political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has admitted up to 2.7 million people in the EU may have been caught in the scandal. And last week the EU had said that its justice commissioner, Vera Jourova, would hold phone talks […]
by Dave Clark with Francesco Fontemaggi Agence France-Presse UNITED STATES (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s threat of action against the Syrian regime places the United States and Russia at perhaps the greatest risk of conflict since the days of the Cold War. No serious observer thinks Washington or Moscow want to fight each other over Bashar al-Assad’s latest alleged use of banned chemical weapons on his country’s civil war battlefield. But the Syria conflict […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg testified for nearly 10 hours over two days on Facebook’s privacy and data protection issues before committees of the Senate and House on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are key points: Protecting the platform “It’s clear now we didn’t do enough,” Zuckerberg said on the protection of private user data and to prevent the hijacking of data on millions by Cambridge Analytica. Zuckerberg said Facebook was built […]
by Dave Clark © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “missiles will be coming” in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, as the UN chief urged world powers to stop a face-off with Russia from spiraling out of control. With punitive US military action seemingly imminent, Russia scrambled to deflect blame from its ally Bashar al-Assad and, according to a monitor group, Syrian forces evacuated key […]
