ISLAMABAD — America’s security “failures” in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited Afghan leaders to his “bunker” for talks, neighboring Pakistan said Thursday. “This situation tells the whole story of U.S. failures, despite fighting in the […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked two Republican senators who sharply criticized his White House performance, saying the “very simple” reason they are retiring is that they “had zero chance” of being re-elected. Trump, in Twitter comments, said Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee “now act so hurt & wounded!” […]
WASHINGTON — With a vote of 51 to 49, Republicans in the U.S. Senate have approved a $4 trillion budget that could pave the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for what he has called “massive tax cuts and reform.” Senate Republicans were under pressure to approve the tax cut measure before next year’s midterm […]
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. president George W. Bush on Thursday spoke against the country’s political divisiveness, saying that “at times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together.” Bush, the country’s 43rd president, a Republican who served two terms in office from 2001 to 2009, never mentioned […]