A traveler holds his laptop and iPhone that he travels with at a security checkpoint at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif. (AP/Paul Sakuma)
In line with the so-called “extreme vetting” urged by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Department of State is proposing tougher scrutiny of visa applicants’ private affairs, including questioning applicants about their social media accounts.
The argument that some tariffs are necessary for national security is a farce. The US has more than enough steel production capacity and even if we didn't, unless the US is fighting the entire world at once, we'd surely have access to at least some markets. Congress should never have given the president this power.
Former CIA director James Woolsey adjusts his glasses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Snow falls at dusk by the White House, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON — Breaking with the practice of President Donald Trump’s predecessor, the White House is keeping secret the lists of visitors to the building.
Donald Trump, left, listens as Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves.
A traveler is patted down by a TSA agent as they go through security at the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City. (AP/Jim Urquhart)
(ANALYSIS) — Every time the government makes a mistake (a frequent occurrence) the people pay the price for its bureaucratic incompetence—both through tax dollars and forced compliance.
21st Century Wire says…
Is McMaster going to reignite tensions with Russia?
In the follow video Stuart J. Hooper asks if we should be worried about General McMaster replacing General Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) America’s generals are talking turkey. But we’re not talking about the well-known idiom for “speaking frankly” about a subject … although over 120 retired generals did just send a frank letter in response to a new State Department-slashing budget proposal by President Trump.
