U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday removed his chief political strategist, Stephen Bannon, from the National Security Council, reversing an early appointment that had drawn the ire of foreign policy experts in Washington. Some lawmakers and others steeped for years in U.S. foreign policy decision-making had said that it was inappropriate that Bannon, whose chief […]
BAGHDAD — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Baghdad on Monday on one of his periodic visits to assess the health of the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford brought Jared Kushner, the senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump, and Tom Bossert, […]
Detail of portrait of Shoshoni Chief Tendoi Demonstrating Sign Language. (Photo by Charles M. Bell, circa 1880, courtesy National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups. The three-day […]
Michael Flynn, the retired Army general whom U.S. President Donald Trump ousted as his national security adviser, has amended his financial disclosure statement, revealing his ties with Russia. Flynn’s new filings show the Russian state-sponsored news organization Russia Today – RT – paid him $45,000 to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration. In addition, two […]