US President Donald Trump is willing to grant 1.8 million foreigners who came to America as a child in the long run to grant citizenship. That is more than double the number of people now receiving protection under the so-called DACA scheme.
The White House is considering discontinuing the subsidy for the International Space Station from 2025. The technology website The Verge reports this after having viewed a draft budget. American astronauts must remain on earth without subsidies.
Donald Trump would like to be interviewed by special prosecutor Robert Mueller in the context of the Russian investigation. In contrast to journalists in the White House, the American president said he was prepared to make statements under oath. 'I look forward to it, honestly.'
US President Donald Trump voiced his concern in a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Turkey's military operation in the Syrian Afrin region. There the Turkish army started an offensive against US-backed Syrian Kurds from the YPG.
The Democrats have withdrawn their support for financing the border wall with Mexico promised by President Trump on Tuesday. In the negotiations on public funding, the Democrats would have offered support for the wall in exchange for a solution to the immigration issue.
The coalition fighting against Islamic State in Syria under the leadership of the US has eliminated nearly 150 jihadists in the Euphrates Valley. 'The precision attacks were the culmination of extensive intelligence work to establish that it was a IS headquarters and command center in still occupied territory \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, was the statement issued on Tuesday.
According to the American space agency NASA, an asteroid will fly past the Earth at relatively close distances in early February. The celestial body with the name 2002 AJ129 will rage past our planet on February 4 at 10.30 pm around 4.2 million kilometers. That is about ten times the distance between the earth and the moon.
The American president Donald Trump receives his French colleague Emmanuel Macron at the end of April in the White House. That will be the first official state visit since Trump moved in there a year ago.
The United States Secretary of State, Jeff Sessions, has been questioned by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller. He is investigating the possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It is the first time that someone from President Trump's ministerial team has been questioned in the context of this investigation.
North Korea has accused the United States of using the Olympic Games as an excuse for even more military presence in the region. But North Korea has 'a powerful and reliable defense' against the Americans. This is what the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Han Tae song, said during disarmament talks in the Swiss city.
Eleven countries around the Pacific will sign the new TPP free trade agreement in March without the United States. Washington stepped out of the treaty a year ago.
With the signature of President Trump, the closure of US government agencies has come to an end after three days. The US Senate voted on Monday against 81 to 18 votes for the legal measure that guarantees the financing of government agencies until 8 February. The House of Representatives also quickly gave its approval with 266 votes in favor and 150 against.
The US Senate approved the legal measure with 81 to 18 votes on Monday, guaranteeing the financing of government agencies until 8 February. If the House of Representatives also agrees, President Donald Trump can then ratify the law with his signature.
The White House assumes that President Trump signs the financing law that puts an end to the government's shutdown on Monday. The Democrats in the Senate concluded an agreement with the Republicans in exchange for a promise that there will be talk about the fate of immigrants.
The American parliamentarians have reached an agreement on government spending for the coming period. That would mean that after three days there will be an end to the shutdown, the closing of the government offices.
The one-year presidential party for Donald Trump has been messed up by a shutdown that kept Washington in its grip all weekend. Democrats and Republicans flew each other in such a way about the government budget that an agreement flopped and the government had to be locked.
The US were aware of the invasion and the bombings that Turkey has carried out in Syria this weekend. That's what the US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said.
The American vice president Mike Pence will start a visit to the Middle East on Saturday. The trip had been postponed twice before, because Pence had to stay in Washington for the Senate vote on the Republicans' tax plan and because in the Middle East there was a heated reaction to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Immediately after shutting down the federal money tap, the American president Donald Trump shouted hard to the Democratic members in the Senate who demanded a counterpart to prevent this shutdown.
In the US Senate, at the end of the deadline, too few members voted to keep the money supply for public spending open in the coming period.
US President Donald Trump is meeting with Theresa May next week. He speaks to the British Prime Minister in Davos. The annual World Economic Forum is in the Swiss mountain resort.
The theme of Iran will dominate a large part of the talks next week during a visit by the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, London, Paris, Warsaw and Davos.
The first year of President Trump did not go unnoticed, to say the least. Like a bulldozer, the former property icon from New York drew through Washington. It was not the end of the world, as some predicted, twelve months full of tumult. High time to take stock.
The US Congress has not yet voted for new money flows towards public services. The danger of a 'shutdown' from the government is therefore not yet taken.
The countdown clocks for a shutdown have already been removed from the stable at the American TV stations. With great excitement, it is checked whether the Congress and the president can sign an agreement before Friday midnight, so that the government will not be closed. Trumps border wall seemed like a child of the bill, but the president does not want to know anything about it.
The German IS terrorist and former rapper Denis Cuspert died in Syria. This is reported by the US-based Site Intelligence Group, which specializes in jihadist reporting.
The planned relocation of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will not take place within a year. That's what President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
The US Department of Defense has stated on Wednesday that it will not create a new army or a border troops in Syria. Earlier in the day, Turkey had fiercely responded to US plans to train fighters including Syrian Kurds for security in the country.
President Donald Trump has announced the winners of his own 'Fake News Awards'. On the website of the Republican party he announced that among others The New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News and CNN were winners of the 'long awaited 2017 fake news awards'.
Steve Bannon, the former strategist of the White House, agreed that he would be interrogated by the team of Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating Russian interference in the US presidential campaign of 2016. That is what CNN heard from a source close at Bannon.
