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Image copyright Oystein Lund Andersen Image caption This image of Anak Krakatoa erupting was taken by Oystein Lund Andersen on Saturday At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say. The country’s disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged by Saturday’s tsunami. It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after…

Senior Trump administration officials said Saturday that the president still plans on having Mexico pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border. The statement comes on the first day of a partial shutdown of the federal government, after Congress adjourned until December 27 without agreeing on a spending deal. President Donald Trump made a last-minute decision in recent days to demand that Congress allocated $5 billion for the wall, despite…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly told President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchumer, Pelosi: Trump got ‘what he wanted’ with shutdown Trump has discussed firing Fed chief after latest interest rate hike: report LeBron James accuses NFL team owners of being ‘old white men’ with ‘slave mentality’ MORE last Friday that his country would handle the remainder of Islamic State forces in Syria following a U.S. withdrawal from the country. NBC News reports that…

Image copyright Oystein Lund Andersen Image caption This image of Anak Krakatoa erupting was taken by Oystein Lund Andersen on Saturday At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say. The country’s disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged by Saturday’s tsunami. It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after…

When President Trump announced that he would pick Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general, to serve as secretary of Defense, the decision was met with relief. In January 2017, Trump seemed like he might well be able to give conservatives real leadership and credibility on foreign policy. Mattis had the respect of the president and the military as well as the knowledge and experience necessary to navigate emerging threats to…

Senior Trump administration officials said Saturday that the president still plans on having Mexico pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border. The statement comes on the first day of a partial shutdown of the federal government, after Congress adjourned until December 27 without agreeing on a spending deal. President Donald Trump made a last-minute decision in recent days to demand that Congress allocated $5 billion for the wall, despite…

President Trump during a signing ceremony for criminal justice reform legislation in the Oval Office on Friday. (Associated Press) President Trump on Saturday night reacted to the resignation of Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State group (ISIS), while also offering a new response to the departure of his defense secretary, James Mattis. Trump took to social media to say he’d neither met nor…

Image copyright Oystein Lund Andersen Image caption This image of Anak Krakatoa erupting was taken by Oystein Lund Andersen on Saturday At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say. The country’s disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged by Saturday’s tsunami. It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after…

The mood at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill darkened with the resignation of Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOvernight Defense: Washington reeling from Mattis resignation | Allies seek ‘clarity’ on next steps | Graham wants hearings on Syria withdrawal | Lawmakers push back on Afghan drawdown On The Money: Latest on shutdown drama | Senate leaders tout breakthrough for moving forward | Last-minute talks to secure final deal |…

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Video Sen. Chuck Schumer: We arrived at this moment because Trump has been on a destructive two-week temper tantrum Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on President Trump to “abandon the wall” Saturday if he wants to reopen the government, saying Trump does not have the votes in the Senate to get it funded — hours after the government shut down over an impasse over funding for Trump’s signature 2016 campaign promise….

Video Sen. Chuck Schumer: We arrived at this moment because Trump has been on a destructive two-week temper tantrum Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on President Trump to “abandon the wall” Saturday if he wants to reopen the government, saying Trump does not have the votes in the Senate to get it funded — hours after the government shut down over an impasse over funding for Trump’s signature 2016 campaign promise….

Video Sen. Chuck Schumer: We arrived at this moment because Trump has been on a destructive two-week temper tantrum Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on President Trump to “abandon the wall” Saturday if he wants to reopen the government, saying Trump does not have the votes in the Senate to get it funded — hours after the government shut down over an impasse over funding for Trump’s signature 2016 campaign promise….

Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr McGurk (L) had previously said the US should retain a presence in Syria A top US official in the fight against the Islamic State group has quit over President Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria, reports say. Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat IS, brought his departure forward from February. Before Mr Trump’s announcement he had…

A former Interior Department official warned on Friday of the dangers of leaving U.S. parks open during the partial government shutdown. Tim Fullerton, who served as Interior’s director of digital strategy in the Obama administration, worked in the department during the 2013 government shutdown. “As someone who worked @interior during the shutdown in [2013], let me tell you how dangerous this is,” he tweeted. “If someone falls, gets lost, or has any issue in a…

CLOSE David Hogg goes after Laura Ingraham and her advertisers. Buzz60 In this combination photo, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 20, 2016, left, and David Hogg, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks at a rally for common sense gun legislation in Livingston, N.J. on Feb. 25, 2018. Some big name advertisers dropped Ingraham…

Not even a government shutdown can cancel Christmas for kids eagerly tracking his progress around the world and awaiting presents in the mail. As thousands of federal employees were likely to be sent home amid the gridlock in Washington after a partial shutdown on Saturday morning and even more were expected to work without pay, several agencies assured children and adults alike that Christmas was still coming. North American Aerospace…

Video House and Senate adjourn without reaching deal, partial government shutdown imminent A partial shutdown of the federal government appeared inevitable late Friday, as lawmakers left the Capitol without a deal to fund the government by a midnight deadline. The House adjourned Friday without a deal on spending. The Senate adjourned shortly thereafter and was not scheduled to return until noon Saturday. One early reaction came from Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.,…

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The challenge of replacing Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is twofold: His replacement needs to retain President Trump’s trust, but the person must also be willing to offer honest advice. Relatively few individuals could fill that role. But here are three that spring to mind. 1) Jon Huntsman A former governor of Utah, former ambassador to China, former ambassador to Singapore, and former U.S. trade representative, Huntsman currently serves as…