Throughout the world, countries hold national votes on weekdays and weekends, all during the year. But in the United States, the major national elections for president every four years and every-other-year congressional elections like those being held Tuesday are always held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. It’s been that way […]
New surveillance video from Istanbul appears to show a Saudi agent wearing journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s clothing and leaving Riyadh’s consulate on October 2, presumably in an attempt to cover up his killing by showing he had left the diplomatic outpost alive. The video was taken by Turkish law enforcement and shown Monday on CNN, suggesting […]
WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has rebuffed U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to punish it over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying Sunday it would retaliate with “greater” economic actions of its own if Trump were to sanction Riyadh. The Saudi stock market plunged seven percent before recovering to a five percent loss for the […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is assailing a new best-selling book about him and his White House as “just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults.” “The Woodward book is a Joke,” the U.S. leader said Monday about investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s highly critical look at Trump’s chaotic 20-month presidency, “Fear: Trump in […]