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by Chris Lefkow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis in the United States a national public health emergency on Thursday and vowed to step up the fight against an epidemic that kills more than 150 Americans every day. “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic,” Trump said at a somber event at the White House attended by former addicts, parents of overdose victims […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The US on Wednesday announced anti-dumping measures on carbon and alloy steel wire rods from Italy, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Ukraine and the United Kingdom imposing duties of up to 147.6 percent. Washington held that the countries sold their goods in the US at “less than fair value,” according to a statement. “The dumping of goods below market value in the United States is something […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – The brother of the man behind the worst mass shooting in modern US history has been arrested on suspicion of having child pornography, police said on Wednesday. Bruce Paddock — one of Stephen Paddock’s three brothers — was arrested early Wednesday in Los Angeles, officer Norma Eisenman told AFP. She said Paddock, 59, is facing child pornography charges in relation to a probe that began before the shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump hit back at critics within his own party Wednesday, painting them as outliers in what is otherwise a “love fest” between him and Republican lawmakers. A day after Republican senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker described Trump as having a “flagrant disregard” for truth and decency and of “debasing” the nation, the combative president shot back. Trying to forestall a broader party backlash, Trump […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump congratulated Xi Jinping on Wednesday, after the Chinese leader solidified his grip on power at a landmark Communist Party Congress. “Spoke to President Xi of China to congratulate him on his extraordinary elevation. Also discussed NoKo & trade, two very important subjects!” Trump tweeted after the call. The phone call came as Xi was formally handed a second term in power and his doctrine was written into the party […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump is poised to meet with top advisers and officially declare the opioid crisis in the United States a “national emergency,” he said on Wednesday. “We’re going to have a big meeting on opioids tomorrow,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’re going to be doing an important meeting sometime in the very near future on opioids in terms of declaring a national emergency, which gives us power to do […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (Reuters) — People in downtown Los Angeles suffered through a record-setting heat wave on Tuesday (Oct. 24) as dry desert winds gusted through southern California raising the risk of wildfires similar to those that ravaged the northern part of the state earlier in the month. At its most intense, temperatures in the city climbed to 104 degrees (40 C) smashing a record of 99 degrees set back in 1909. The heat […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will resume accepting refugees after a 120-day ban, but arrivals from 11 “high-risk” countries, most of them home to Muslim majorities, will still be blocked, officials announced Tuesday. The temporary ban, which President Donald Trump fought to implement since January and finally proceeded with in late June after a Supreme Court decision, allowed officials to review security procedures and set tougher screening procedures. Jennifer Higgins, associate director […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Senate on Tuesday approved a $36.5-billion disaster relief package for hurricane-affected communities like Puerto Rico and for areas devastated by wildfires, sending the bill to President Donald Trump for his signature. The measure outlining “supplemental” disaster spending passed 82 to 17, nearly two weeks after the emergency package cleared the House of Representatives. The aid includes $18.7 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund, $16 […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A senator from Donald Trump’s Republican Party unleashed a powerful attack on the US leader Tuesday as he announced he would not seek re-election for fear of being “complicit” with a “reckless” presidency. Jeff Flake, of Arizona, assailed Trump in a bombshell 17-minute speech on the Senate floor, hours after the president made what was meant to be a bridge-building trip to the Capitol to […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was to arrive in Islamabad Tuesday as Washington turns up the heat on Pakistan for allegedly providing “safe havens” for Taliban militants. Tillerson’s visit, his first to Pakistan since becoming secretary of state, comes weeks after US President Donald Trump angrily accused the nuclear-armed country of harboring “agents of chaos” who can attack NATO-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan. It follows on the heels of an unannounced stop […]
by Sylvie Lanteaume Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States is considering a stepped-up military presence in Africa to pursue Islamic State group jihadists looking for new havens after the fall of their “caliphate,” American officials say. After IS lost its de facto capital Raqa in Syria this month, and its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul earlier, the group “has aspirations to establish a larger presence” in Africa, the US military’s top officer General Joseph […]
