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China Eliminates Tariffs on Africa to Outmaneuver Trump
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (172+ words) African countries are finding it harder to export to the U. S. since President Trump returned to the White House with a long list of tariffs. But China sees their struggle as an opportunity," the Wall Street Journal reports. Since May 1, Beijing…...
Trump Mulls Overhaul to Favor White Refugees
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (719+ words) The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U. S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration," the New York Times reports....
Trump to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (652+ words) The Trump administration plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low level in the upcoming year, reserving a bulk of the limited slots for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing "unjust discrimination," the New York Times reports....
Men Tried to Kill Zambian President with Witchcraft
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (664+ words) Two men in Zambia have been handed two-year prison sentences with hard labor after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate the country's president through witchcraft," The Independent reports. The Zambian and Mozambican nationals were convicted last week under a…...
A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (667+ words) Until a month or two ago, Nicholas J. Fuentes was regarded by right-wing influencers as a mosquito-like interloper whose lifeblood was attention. Ignore his openly racist and sexist rants, their thinking went, and Mr. Fuentes would eventually flitter off into oblivion,…...
Trump to Skip G-20 Summit
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (670+ words) President Donald Trump said he would not attend this year's Group of 20 leaders' summit in Johannesburg in November, after months of attacks on South Africa's government over unfounded claims it's carrying out a genocide on White Afrikaners," Bloomberg reports. Trump…...
State Department Scales Back Human Rights Criticism
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (669+ words) The State Department on Tuesday released a long-awaited series of reports on worldwide human rights practices that reveal scaled-back criticism of select countries including El Salvador and harsher assessments of traditional U. S. allies, including the United Kingdom and Germany," CBS News…...
Trump Delivers for His Conservative Christian Base
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (593+ words) In his first half-year in office " amid his tariff campaign, government-slashing moves and immigration crackdown " President Donald Trump has also repeatedly delivered for conservative Christians, who form the bedrock of his Republican support," the AP reports. Texas Democrats had been…...
The Art of Making Powerful People Squirm on Camera
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (664+ words) Those who have worked with Trump for years explain the behavior in various ways. Particularly when meeting with foreign leaders, Trump will absorb a briefing ahead of time, but has what one former administration official from the first term called…...
U. S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Migrants
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (703+ words) As President Trump met Wednesday with the leaders of five West African countries, his administration was pushing them to accept migrants deported by the U. S. whose home countries refuse or are slow to take them back, the Wall Street Journal reports....