WASHINGTON, D.C. , UNITED STATES (RECENT-JULY 21, 2017) (NBC) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is leaving the job after little over a week, the White House said on Monday (July 31), in the latest staff upheaval to hit the Republican’s six-month-old presidency. Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND UNKNOWN LOCATION, UNITED STATES (JULY 28, 2017) (FOX NEWS CHANNEL’S HANNITY) – Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show on Friday (July 28) said he offered to resign and that he was not asked to resign hours after President Donald Trump replaced him after only six months on the job, installing retired General John Kelly in his place in a major shake-up of his top team. Continue reading
Open warfare erupts within the White House, as Donald Trump’s new communications director Anthony Scaramucci attacks senior Washington officials in a scathing rant published in The New Yorker. Matthew Larotonda reports. Continue reading
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called leaks coming from the White House as ‘un-American’ and ‘an injustice to the institution of the American presidency’, and he said those leakers will be fired. Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. , UNITED STATES (FILE – JUNE 22, 2017) ( RESTRICTED POOL) – White House spokesman Sean Spicer ended a brief, turbulent tenure on Friday (July 21) by resigning, a White House official said. Continue reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a vigorous defense of globalisation and free trade in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. As Ivor Bennett reports, it underscores Beijing’s desire to play a greater global role as the United States turns inward. Continue reading
Incoming Trump chief of staff, Priebus, says there will not be a registry based on religion but a new vetting system will have to be put in place.