President Trump on Wednesday said he has authorized the U.S. Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats if they harass American ships at sea. His announcement comes one week after nearly a dozen of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy boats made several “dangerous and harassing approaches” to U.S. warships conducting joint operations with…
President Trump said Tuesday he will order a 60-day halt to new immigrants arriving from outside the country, with an eye toward preventing them from competing with Americans for jobs amid the coronavirus crisis — though he said temporary guest workers will still be allowed. Mr. Trump said he felt a “solemn duty” to Americans…
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday night that he plans to sign an executive order temporarily suspending immigration to the United States. Trump said he wants to save jobs and prevent the “Invisible Enemy,” or coronavirus, from entering the U.S. from other countries. In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the…
In a tweet issued Monday evening, President Donald Trump pledged to sign an executive order temporarily suspending immigration into the United States. However, his tweet provided no additional information on whether the suspension would include all countries or how it would potentially handle visitors with work and other visas."In light of the attack from the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…