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President Trump issued a proclamation today (June 3) ordering flags be flown at half-staff on federal buildings to honor the five victims of the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, the White House said. The mass shooting occurred on June 28, 2018, at the offices of newspaper publisher Capital Gazette Communications in Annapolis at Maryland. The […]

Steven T. Mnuchin in an op-ed for Tampa Bay Times, has claimed that six months after the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, tens of millions of hardworking Americans are experiencing an economic renewal and that GDP is growing faster than it has in a decade. Mnuchin who is is the 77th Secretary […]

If the White House salary data released on Friday is accurate, President Trump’s staff may be better taken care of than Obama’s. According to the data, Madeleine Westerhout who serves as an executive assistant to Trump is paid an annual salary of $130,000. She received a 37 per cent pay raise this year from the $95,000 she was paid last […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump’s trade tariff policies. The Chamber which has 3-million members and is customarily a close ally of the Republican Party, is upset that President Trump is risking a global trade war that will hit the wallets of U.S. consumers. Chamber President Tom Donohue […]

Mexico’s next president will be Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and outspoken critic of the political establishment both in Mexico and the United States. The 64-year-old leftist, who had for months led a crowded presidential field, beat three competitors on July 1 to triumph in his third presidential bid. López Obrador […]

Indiana State Police said they found “Trump shaped ecstasy pills” during a recent multi-agency operation. The ecstasy pills included some which were orange-colored and Trump-shaped, while others displayed the words ‘Great Again’. The multi-agency sting operation dubbed ‘Operation Blue Anvil’ conducted from June 19 to June 28, targeted several small time drug dealers along U.S. […]

One man has taken his devotion to President Donald Trump to a whole new level – and the best thing is, he not even an American and lives 8,100 miles away in India. The Indian man Bussa Krishna has spent the past three years worshiping Trump as a god, carrying around a picture of the […]

President of the United States of America (POTUS) Donald Trump on Monday (June 18), ordered the creation of a sixth branch of the military to focus on space. The new military branch will add to the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The POTUS in ordering the creation of the United States Space Force said: […]

Etta Ng, daughter of superstar Jackie Chan, along with her girlfriend, have appealed to the public for help because of homeless state. The two women claim that they are homeless because their parents are homophobic. Ms. Ng, 18, came out last year via an Instagram post, writing, “In case no one got the memo, I’m […]

In the South China Morning Post, journalist Alex Lo writes about how Hong Kong’s denizens can be unbelievably kind and generous one minute, and then openly racist and unspeakably rude the next. Mr. Lo cites his fellow Post writer, Michael Chugani, who is a Hong Kong-American Indian journalist, as an example of this. Mr. Chugani […]

In a seeming victory for world peace, the heads of state of both North and South Korea have agreed to seek after lasting peace between their two countries as well as the full nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula. The two leaders, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in, were seen not […]

Erhai Lake in Dali, China, is one of the country’s most beautiful lakes, and has long been a top tourist attraction as well. However, the lake is also the receptacle of runoff from pesticides from nearby farms, and sewage from local restaurants and hotels also end up in it, causing massive pollution to the lake.  […]

In an article for BBC News, Professor Rana Mitter shows five ways how China’s past has shaped the country into what it is today. The author’s premise is that in order to understand how China approaches such issues as internet censorship, trade or foreign policy, we must look into the country’s past.  Key to understanding […]

All eyes were on Prince Harry and his fiancee, Meghan Markle, at the Queen’s 92nd birthday concert last Saturday, April 21. The pair both wore stylish navy blue outfits that elicited much praise on social media. In less than a month, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle are scheduled to get married at St. George’s Chapel, […]

There are three trends that dominate the weddings of China’s brides and grooms, which are: destination weddings, customization and quality. More and more of China’s young betrothed couples are personalizing their weddings and combining traditional wedding details with more modern and Western elements. For example, some couples are now choosing to have two weddings. One […]