Sport

Elijah Dormeus was sitting Sunday among the throngs of graduating students at Morehouse College in Atlanta, trying to focus on the commencement speaker, but mostly basking in the glow of finishing four years of college.  Then the speaker, billionaire Robert Smith, told the graduates he and his family will be taking care of their student loans. Just like that, Dormeus’ $100,000 in student loans vanished.  Dormeus dropped his head into his heads, cried…

Last week, we saw a spate of articles, tweets, and opinion pieces making the case that national security adviser John Bolton was manipulating President Trump into a war with Iran. The arguments were basically that Bolton was eager for war, which Trump opposed, but Bolton is pushing him into making decisions that are escalating tensions and that could then lead to war. The narrative of a split between Trump and…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 20 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 20 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Fans of “Game of Thrones” spotted yet another gaffe during the highly anticipated series finale on Sunday. [WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM “GAME OF THRONES”] In the last episode, titled “The Iron Throne,” viewers noticed a plastic water bottle behind the legs of one of the…

Chinese shipping containers are stored at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, Calif. Americans like trade, in bigger numbers than ever. But they also believe China doesn’t play fair in trade. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Chinese shipping containers are stored at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, Calif. Americans like trade, in bigger numbers than ever. But they also believe…

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

Just days after saying he was prepared for talks, United States President Donald Trump has issued a direct threat to Iran, suggesting that the Islamic republic will be destroyed if it attacks his country’s interests. “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday. He did not clarify what threats he meant. …

“Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy,” Mr. Trump wrote in a midmorning Twitter riff that included, among other things, criticism of the “Fake News Sunday Political Shows” and boasts about his judicial appointments and health care policies. “Justin is a loser who sadly plays…

“You know, it’s unfortunate that you’re citing that article, George, because it’s a whole lot of fake news,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said. | Michael Wyke/AP Photo 2020 Elections By DAVID BEAVERS 05/19/2019 11:29 AM EDT Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat running for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination, on Sunday called a Daily Beast report that her campaign is being backed by prominent Russian sympathizers “fake news.” Speaking to ABC’s George…

Video Flashback: Biden mocks Romney over Russia threat Former Vice President Joe Biden’s attacks on Mitt Romney for his 2012 warning about Russia resurfaces. Soon after Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., went against the GOP consensus by claiming President Trump committed “impeachable conduct” in the form of obstruction of justice, another known Trump critic took the opposite position. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, acknowledged that while he has called out Trump when he’s…

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

Austria‘s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for fresh elections after his ruling coalition collapsed following an apparent video sting that forced his deputy to step down. In a statement on Saturday, Kurz said he would ask the country’s President Alexander Van der Bellen to hold a new vote “as soon as possible”. The call came hours after Heinz-Christian Strache, the vice chancellor and leader of the far-right Freedom…

“The president made it very clear that he thinks the greatest foreign policy mistake, probably in the modern age, was the decision by President [George W.] Bush to go into Iraq,” Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday on CNN. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo Congress By DAVID BEAVERS 05/19/2019 10:11 AM EDT As tensions between the United States and Iran increase, Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday expressed confidence that war with the…

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

• Read and search the full report • CNN found 77 instances of lies and false assertions in Mueller’s report. Trump told the greatest number • 77 lies and falsehoods Mueller called out • What Trump associates told the public vs. what they told Mueller • 4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller’s report

Attorney General William Barr is speaking out publicly for the first time about selecting Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to head up an inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI. “I was looking for someone who is tenacious, who is used to looking at sensitive material involving government activities, who has a reputation for being fair and evenhanded,” Barr…

Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech to the graduating class of Taylor University on Saturday, although not everyone chose to stay for it. Dozens of students and faculty at the Indiana evangelical Christian college walked out in protest before Pence walked up to the podium, according to the Indianapolis Star. Most of the graduating class stayed for Pence’s speech and gave him a standing ovation. So it’s hard to…

There’s no reason for anyone to get excited about the White House’s “new” immigration proposal. If he treats it anything like he treated the nearly identical bill introduced two years ago by Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., President Trump will forget about it 10 days after it’s introduced. White House officials have been dripping out details on the plan for two weeks, and so far it’s set…

Video Trump argues trade fight with China is worth having to strike ‘great deal’ Dow futures rebound after the president says a deal will happen ‘much faster than people think’; Kevin Corke reports from the White House. President Trump on Tuesday said that a deal with China will happen “when the time is right,” and only after the U.S. is allowed to “make up” ground he says was lost after…

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

Video Ingraham: Trump the cleanup man Trump cleaning up predecessor’s mess on China, using tariffs as trade enforcement tool. In her “Ingraham Angle” monologue on Monday, Laura Ingraham said President Trump is effectively the “clean-up man” for past presidents who may have been too wary to take a hard line against China on trade policy. Ingraham noted that the Chinese government “retaliated” against Trump’s 25 percent increase on tariffs on some…