Tag: Washington

• Thursday, January 14th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Opinion polls blame Trump for the violence, while his approval ratings drop to historic lows

  

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the Congress in the process to impeach him for the second time, outgoing President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged his supporters to shun violence as the National Guard prepared to deploy thousands of troops in Washington for the Jan. 20 swearing-in of his successor Joe Biden.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 01:17 UTC

  Capitol mob represents an internal collapse of US political system: Global Times editorial

  

  Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday in an attempt to stop Joe Biden from being certified the winner. Although the situation was quickly brought under control, politicians and public opinion condemned the riots, and Congress officially certified Biden's victory afterwards, the far-reaching implications of the incident may not be controllable.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 00:00 UTC

  Washington D.C. under public emergency for the next fifteen days

  

  Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday night extended the public emergency to 15 days, until the day after President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Panda diplomacy survives current US/China confrontation

  

  Giant pandas will remain at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington for another three years under an agreement reached with Chinese wildlife officials, the zoo said on Monday.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  March on Washington: “You might have killed the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream”

  

  Thousands of people took part in a march in Washington on Friday to denounce racism, on the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his historic 'I Have a Dream' speech.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Washington DC mayor and Secret Service, contradict Trump's tweets

  

  US President Donald Trump said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been “greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.”

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  People in Washington state protest the governor's 'stay at home' order

  

  An estimated 2,500 people rallied at the Washington state capitol on Sunday to protest Democratic Governor Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order to limit the spread of COVID-19, defying a ban on gatherings of 50 or more people. The move follows similar actions in several states that took place on Saturday.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:04 UTC

  US approves rules on imports from countries that undervalue their currencies

  

  The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday finalized a new rule to impose anti-subsidy duties on products from countries that it has determined undervalue their currencies against the dollar, including potentially China.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  US/China Phase One trade deal to be signed 15 January at the White House

  

  A partial new US-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, US President Donald Trump said, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazil nominates career diplomat to be ambassador in US; Bolsonaro's son wish over

  

  Brazil’s government on Tuesday sent to the Senate the nomination of career-diplomat Nestor Forster to be ambassador to the United States, ending a saga in which President Jair Bolsonaro tried to nominate his own son for the role.