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Trump Mocks Oscar’s Best Movie Pick Parasite

February 21, 2020 12:07 pm

The U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the historic best-picture Oscar win for South Korean film “Parasite,” telling a campaign rally he wished for the return of Hollywood classics such as 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.”

The cast of Parasite at the 92nd Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

“Parasite,” a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, earlier this month, became the first non-English Language film to take Hollywood’s top prize.

It also won three other Oscars – best director and original screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and best international feature film.…

Trump Offered Pardon To Assange If He Denied Russia Leak

February 19, 2020 4:36 pm

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a document that Trump relayed the offer through former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the UK’s domestic Press Association news agency reported.

The White House quickly issued a denial that Trump had dangled a pardon in exchange for help in the Russia controversy, which has cast a shadow over his first term in office.

“The president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. …

US Republican Senators Join Democrats To Wipe War Powers

February 14, 2020 4:18 am

The US Senate voted Thursday to rein in President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, sharply rebuking his foreign policy despite acquitting him last week in his impeachment trial.

Eight senators of Trump’s Republican Party, which enjoys a majority, bucked their leadership to join Democrats, following a classified Iran session by the Trump administration that one Republican called the worst briefing he had ever witnessed.

The resolution, which bars the United States from any military action against Iran without explicit approval by Congress, will head to the Democratic-led House of Representatives, which passed a text in similar form last month.

But …

Reports: Trump Mulls Slashing Foreign Aid

February 10, 2020 3:46 am

US President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia.

Trump, a Republican, sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced steep resistance from Congress and did not prevail.

His latest budget, which will be released on Monday, is a blueprint for his spending proposals that is unlikely, again, to be passed, particularly in an election year.

According to Reuters, Trump will seek to make a 21% cut in foreign aid …