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QUEZON City, Philippines – Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump said that he will pull the United States of America from the Paris Climate Agreement out because it gives the foreign bureaucrats control on US energy consumption within US soil. He also said that he will slash oil regulations and that he will make American energy dominance as a strategic and foreign policy goal. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The rapper Belly, a Canadian of Palestinian origin, canceled a coveted appearance on a late-night US television show as a protest against fellow guest Donald Trump. Belly had been due to perform with R&B sensation The Weeknd on Wednesday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to promote the rapper’s upcoming album “Another Day in Paradise.” But Belly announced that he was scrapping the performance because Trump was the main guest, […]
BISMARCK, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne White House hopeful Donald Trump claimed victory Thursday in the Republican nomination race, while shrugging off criticism from the man he aims to replace, President Barack Obama, who blasted the billionaire’s ignorance and arrogant attitude. Trump vaulted past the threshold of 1,237 needed to win the party’s primary race when a group of unbound delegates from North Dakota said they would back him. The accomplishment caps an extraordinary […]
by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton tried to draw a sharper contrast with Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the central message of her campaign was “We’re stronger together,” even as a new poll showed the two candidates in a statistical tie. The new Washington Post/ABC News survey found the presidential frontrunners in “a virtual dead heat” among registered voters. Never in the poll’s history, The Post said, had two major […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton on Thursday blasted her likely general election rival Donald Trump as a threat to US democracy and declared him unqualified to be president, unleashing some of her toughest criticism yet of the Republican presumptive nominee. “The threat that Donald Trump poses is so dramatic to our country, to our democracy and our economy,” the former secretary of state told CNN in an interview. “I […]
LONDON , United Kingdom (AFP) — Donald Trump warned Monday he may end up having a bad relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who branded the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s proposal to stop Muslim immigration to the US “stupid”. “It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship,” Trump told Britain’s ITV television. “Who knows, I hope to have a good relationship with him but he’s not willing to address […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Thursday’s high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan marks a critical point in the billionaire’s presidential quest, with party grandees pressured to close ranks and support the presumptive nominee. Ryan, the top-ranked Republican currently elected to public office, dropped a bombshell and triggered soul-searching within a fractured party last week when he said he was “just not ready” to […]
(REUTERS) Japan’s ambassador to the United States weighed in on the U.S. presidential election debate on Friday by arguing against the “America first” stance of Republican candidate Donald Trump and stressing the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Without mentioning Trump by name, the envoy, Kenichiro Sasae, told a Washington forum Japan had come up unexpectedly in the election debate, showing that nothing could be taken for granted in terms of the long-standing alliance. “In the […]
(Reuters) Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, announced on Tuesday (May 3) in Indianapolis, after losing the Indiana primary to his rival Trump that he “will be suspending his campaign.” “From the beginning I’ve said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight I’m sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed,” Cruz said Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept to a commanding victory in Indiana, putting […]
(Reuters) Republican front-runner Donald Trump scored an important victory over rival Ted Cruz in Indiana on Tuesday, a win that moves him close to being unstoppable in his march to the party’s presidential nomination. The New York billionaire was quickly projected to be the winner by television networks shortly after polling places closed in the Midwestern state. Trump was on track to take well over 50 percent of the vote, eclipsing Cruz, a U.S. senator […]
(Reuters) Front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will have essentially sealed the Republican U.S. presidential nomination if he wins Tuesday’s contest in Indiana, where he holds a big lead over chief rival Ted Cruz. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist opinion poll showed Trump with a wide lead in Indiana, 49 percent to 34 percent for Cruz and 13 percent for a third candidate, Ohio Governor John Kasich. Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday took aim at Democrats and Republicans alike in his final appearance headlining the star-studded White House correspondents’ dinner, but saved his sharpest barbs for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. “The Republican establishment is incredulous that he’s their most likely nominee,” Obama told attendees at the black-tie event, which brought together journalists and media moguls with Hollywood stars and power brokers from Capitol Hill and beyond. “They […]
