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The U.S.' Travel Ban For Six Muslim Countries Has Officially Applied

Trump's temporary immigration ban which is outlined to against the citizens from six muslim-majority countries and the rest of the refugees started to be applied. Quoted from REUTERS, Thursday (29/6, the travel ban started to be implemented on Thursday (29/6) at 8 pm local time or Friday (30/6) at 07.00 GMT. However, the ban was reduced. The US still allows citizens from those countries to travel to the country. The application of the controversial policy was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow Trump's executive order to apply the policy. However, the Supreme Court has reduced the scope of the ban, one is excluding the citizens and refugees who have a relationship with someone who can be trusted in the US. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry said, according to the verdict of the Supreme Court, any visa applicants from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen must have a close relationship with the family or an official relationship with someone ...

Trump : We Are Getting Out From Paris Climate Agreement

President Donald Trump has announced the United States withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. He added a step to negotiate a new deal which is 'fair' to the US business and workers. The Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 tied the United States and another 187 countries to keep the global temperature rise in 2 ' C (3.6 F ') and attempt to limit the temperature to 1.5’ C. Only two countries, Syria and Nicaragua, that did not sign the deal. When announcing the policy in Rose Garden, White House, on Thursday (01/06), Washington, Trump described the agreement is purposed to harm and impoverish United States. He argued that the deal will cause US a great loss of domestic product gross as much as $3 trillion and 6.5 million jobs field, while the US economic rivals such as China and India get better treatment. "This withdrawal is needed to protect America and its citizens," he said. "So we are getting out but will start the negotiation and...

Republicans Willing to Unite Behind Donald Trump, Poll Shows

A tremendous number of Republican voters say their party’s leaders should stand behind Donald J. Trump,  according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. And as Mr. Trump faces deep skepticism with general election voters and some Republican holdouts, the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, is grappling with Senator Bernie Sanders and how to win over his impassioned supporters. Both parties thus approach their July nominating conventions with significant unease and hurdles to overcome. Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are widely disliked by voters, and both parties will need to repair schisms that might spell doom in an ordinary election year. But this, of course, is no ordinary year. Mr. Trump’s and Mrs. Clinton’s soaring levels of unpopularity are extraordinary for the likely nominees of the two major parties. Nearly two-thirds of voters, for example, say that Mr. Trump is not honest and trustworthy. Just as many say the same of Mrs. Clinton. Strong majorities...

Former GOP Sen. Bob Bennett Apologized to Muslims at the End of His Age

The former Republican Sen. Bob Bennet used his last days to apologize to Muslims for the rise of Donald Trump as his party’s presidential nominee, confirmed by the family members to the Daily Beast. The wife and son of former Sen. Bob Bennett reportedly said the Utah Republican was disgusted by Donald Trump having become the party’s presidential front-runner based on his stances on Muslim and other immigration. (Associated Press) more > In a report posted Wednesday evening, the wife and son of former Sen. Bob Bennett said the Utah Republican was disgusted by Mr. Trump having become the party’s presidential front-runner based on his stances on Muslim and other immigration. “In the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his mind… disgust for Donald Trump’s xenophobia,” son Jim Bennett told the Daily Beast. “At the end of his life he was preoccupied with getting things done that he had felt was left undone.” The article by Tim Mak begins with a...

Donald Trump and His Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton on Fox News

The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump resurrected accusations of rape against former president Bill Clinton in an hour interview with Fox News. Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump about his feelings on a recent New York Times article that dug into the candidate’s troubled history with women. Photograph: Fox News Trump’s remarks came in response to a question from Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, who asked Trump about his feelings on a recent New York Times article that dug into the candidate’s troubled history with women, which Trump called a “con job” that made him “furious”. “Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick?” Hannity asked Trump, in apparent defense of the candidate. “Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey? In one case, it’s about exposure. In another case, it’s about groping and fondling and touching against a woman’s will.” “And rape,” Trump responded. “And rape,” Hannity followed up. “A...

Trump's Mock on Clinton, Clinton World: Criticism of Bill's High Demand on Wife's Campaign

Clinton World is scoffing at suggestions from Donald Trump and other Republicans. They said that Hillary Clinton is making a mistake in suggesting she’d give a major role in her White House on the issue of the economy to Bill Clinton. Trump has mocked the suggestion of putting the former president to work. “How can Crooked Hillary put her husband in charge of the economy when he was responsible for NAFTA, the worst economic deal in U.S. history?” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee tweeted on Tuesday. And former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) suggested that the promise of such a major role for Bill Clinton suggests he is effectively running for a third term. “The president of the United States has an actual job to create jobs, create wealth, create take home pay,” he said on Fox Business Network. “That’s Hillary’s job if she wants to be president. That’s not the first spouse’s job.” The Clinton camp sees Bill Clinton as a valuable asset and believes the GOP a...

Clinton Claims Kentucky, Oregon for Sanders

Hillary Clinton got the win in Kentucky. It took a last-minute campaign blitz and a significant financial investment for her to win the country Democratic primary by half a percentage point over her stubborn primary foe Bernie Sanders — in a state she won by 35 percentage points over Barack Obama in their 2008 primary clash and where her family has deep political roots going back decades. Sanders, after racing Clinton right up to the finish line in the Bluegrass State, easily won the Oregon primary, and declared at a raucous rally in California that despite pressure from the Clinton campaign to abandon his quest for the nomination, he would stay in the race "until the last ballot is cast." His speech did little to soothe escalating tensions between the Democratic campaigns. Clinton did not appear in public on Tuesday night, but her campaign tweeted thanks to the people of Kentucky and said "we're always stronger united." We just won Kentucky! Than...

Obama : Finalizing the Overtime Pay To Millions Of Workers

Announced by the Labor Department on Tuesday, one of the most ambitious economic reforms of the Obama era, finalizing a new rule that will extend overtime protections to millions of additional workers, have been completed. The administration will accomplish that by raising what’s known as the overtime salary threshold. Nearly all workers earning salaries beneath that threshold are entitled to time-and-a-half pay whenever they work more than 40 hours in a week. The current threshold is just $23,660. The White House will be doubling that number, to $47,476, guaranteeing overtime rights for salaried workers earning less than that. The Labor Department will now update the threshold every three years to make sure it keeps pace with inflation. The White House estimates that the change will bring overtime rights to 4.2 million workers who are currently excluded. It will also clarify eligibility for another 8.9 million workers who may or may not have overtime protections under t...

Donald Trump Trapped the Republican National Committee

On Fox News Sunday, Reince Priebus promised that Donald Trump will “bring an earthquake to Washington.” At the least, he’s put the RNC chairman on shaky ground. Priebus, the top official in the Republican Party, has a conundrum. His party’s presumptive nominee is making it extremely hard for him to attack Hillary Clinton, as Priebus’s most recent Sunday morning TV tour made excruciatingly clear. For years, the Republican Party has been developing talking points and strategic attacks to use against Clinton. And one by one, Trump seems to be rendering them useless. Priebus’s walk of Sunday shame came in the wake of a brutal few days for Trump. The Washington Post produced audio of Trump allegedly pretending to be his own PR flack,The New York Times released a scorching report about Trump’s creepy and predatory treatment of pageant contestants and female employees. On top of that, Trump spent the week arguing that he doesn’t have a responsibility to release his tax retu...

When Some Democrats Want Bernie Sanders to Leave Race

Pressure is raising on Bernie Sanders, hoping him to end his campaign for president, with Democratic Party leaders raising alarms that his continued presence in the race is undermining efforts to beat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this fall.  The new concerns come after Sanders' recent wins over front-runner Hillary Clinton in Indiana and West Virginia. While those victories have provided his supporters a fresh sense of momentum heading into next week's primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, they did almost nothing to help Sanders cut into Clinton's nearly insurmountable lead in the delegates who will decide their party's nomination. "I don't think they think of the downside of this," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, a Clinton supporter who hosted the 2008 meeting that brokered post-primary peace between Clinton and then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. "It's actually harmful because she can't make that general-election piv...

Fove More Takeaways from West Virginia and Nebraska for Primary Result

Hillary Clinton was defeated in West Virginia Tuesday night, keeping his long-shot bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination alive for now. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, captured two states -- West Virginia and Nebraska -- as voters continue to flock to the New York billionaire. Exit polls in both states painted a picture of conservative voters eager for outsiders in Washington. Here are five takeaways from Tuesday night's primaries: West Virginia doesn't like Hillary Clinton Clinton defeated Barack Obama here in 2008, but didn't come close to a victory on Tuesday, losing to Sanders by a wide margin. Sanders won handily in nearly every demographic, according to exit polls. He fared strongly among the many voters concerned with the economy and won big margins in coal industry households. Clinton has tried to clean up her comments from a CNN town hall in March that she wanted to "put a lot of coal miners and coal...

Trump Prepared for East Coast Primary Wins

Donald Trump is poised to extend his lead in the Republican presidential race in a string of East Coast primaries on Tuesday, but a complicated contest in Pennsylvania, the day's biggest prize, will test his recently reorganized campaign. The state features the sort of complex rules that Trump has repeatedly slammed for being "rigged" and that forced him this month to reshuffle his team to better compete with main rival Ted Cruz for the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination for the Nov. 8 election. "It's as crooked almost as Hillary Clinton," Trump said on Monday at a campaign event in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in an attack on both the Republican primary rules and the Democratic presidential front-runner. Just 17 of the 71 Republican delegates up for grabs in Pennsylvania on Tuesday are allocated to the candidate who wins its primary. The rest - people who are elected directly by voters - are free agents, able to support anyone they c...

Bernie Sanders Misunderstood What Poverty Really is

Bernie Sanders has been campaigning in Maryland, in Baltimore, and some of his remarks indicate that he doesn’t really understand what poverty is.   He’s getting very mixed up indeed between relative poverty and absolute poverty. Now, it is indeed true that American liberals and progressives get uptight about relative poverty, what we might also call inequality.  But it is still true that they are very different concepts, these relative and absolute poverties. Absolute poverty is simply not having a roof over your head, a shirt on your back or even a cheap meal of anything in your stomach. The relative poverty in Baltimore that Bernie is talking about is just not anything like this at all. It’s having less than others in the society around you, yes, but that is indeed inequality, not absolute poverty. Of course, some of what Sanders is saying is just standard stump politics: “It’s important to show the world that in the United States of America, in Freddie ...

Bathrooms and Transgender Rights Have Become a GOP Race Flash Point

Cletus Abate was upset knowing that the Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill that would extend protections to transgender people, including allowing them to use the bathrooms they choose. Cletus Abate said the issue of transgender people in bathrooms will lead her to vote for Ted Cruz rather than Donald Trump, whom she supported for months, in Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday. (Katie Zezima/The Washington Post) So she took a petition and packets outlining what opponents see as threats from the legislation to a Ted Cruz rally, handing them out to anyone who would listen, including the candidate himself. “I’m here because Donald Trump came out on the news and said he doesn’t have a problem with transgender bathrooms,” Abate said. Transgender rights have become an unlikely and heated issue in the presidential campaign after North Carolina enacted a law that, among other things, mandated that people use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their...