• Trump Activates National Guard to Assist California, New York, and Washington fight with Chinese virus

    Trump Activates National Guard to Assist California, New York, and Washington fight with Chinese virus

    President Trump announced Sunday that the federal government would activate the National Guard to help California, New York, and Washington — three of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic — deal with the outbreak. “The federal government will be funding 100 percent of the cost of deploying national guard units to carry out …
  • Trump Rejected Strikes on Iran-Backed Militias Due to Iran’s Chinese virus outbreak

    Trump Rejected Strikes on Iran-Backed Militias Due to Iran’s Chinese virus outbreak

    President Trump last week rejected an aggressive response to attacks by Iran-backed militias on U.S. forces in Iraq, because he thought an attack on Iranian forces would look bad while the country and the world are fighting the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, NBC reported on Thursday. On March 11, Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah killed two American …
  • Trump Bashes Chinese Propagandists for Blaming Virus Outbreak on U.S. Military

    Trump Bashes Chinese Propagandists for Blaming Virus Outbreak on U.S. Military

    President Trump on Tuesday skewered Beijing for floating an accusation that the U.S. military deliberately infected the Chinese people with coronavirus to make it appear as though the virus originated in China. “China was putting out information, which was false, that our military gave this to them. That was false,” Trump said at a press …
  • Justice Department Drops Criminal Trial against Russian Firms Indicted by Mueller

    Justice Department Drops Criminal Trial against Russian Firms Indicted by Mueller

    Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Justice Department on Monday abandoned plans to move forward with a criminal trial against two Russian firms indicted by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller for financing efforts to interfere in the …