Tag: White House

• Thursday, August 17th 2017 - 07:22 UTC

  Business leaders step down from White House council over Trump's comments of Virginia violent clashes

  

  President Trump has said he is scrapping two business councils after more bosses quit over his handling of violent clashes in Virginia. Business leaders left the White House manufacturing council after the backlash against how he reacted to the far-right rally last weekend.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2017 - 10:08 UTC

  Trump reminds Republicans in Congress who's the boss and the agenda priority

  

  United Stated House Republicans were forced to back down on Tuesday on plans to throw out a congressional ethics office as Donald Trump rebuked them over the move, in an embarrassing clash with the president-elect on the day the new Congress was sworn in.

• Saturday, November 26th 2016 - 11:46 UTC

  Trump names experienced heavyweights in national security and White House counsel

  

  President-elect Donald Trump named KT McFarland as deputy national security adviser and Donald McGahn as his White House counsel. McFarland served in three separate Republican administrations, most notably as a spokeswoman for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger under Ronald Reagan.

• Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:40 UTC

  Obama will host Trump at the White House and promises a smooth transition

  

  President Barack Obama will host on Thursday a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House, in their first public step toward a peaceful transition of power after the Republican businessman's surprise election victory. The two men have had almost no one-on-one contact previously. Trump led the “birther” movement that questioned Obama's U.S. citizenship and has pledged to overturn the Democratic president's signature policy achievements after he takes office on Jan. 20

• Monday, June 6th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

  UK dilemma with Malcorra at the UN, “a candidate favoured by Washington”

  

  Britain is facing a diplomatic dilemma since it seems quite clear that the US administration of Barack Obama favours the Argentine candidate and current foreign affairs minister Susana Malcorra as the next UN Secretary General, according to an article published on the Sunday edition of The Telegraph and written by Peter Foster, Europe editor and Harriet Alexander, New York editor.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2015 - 05:06 UTC

  Jeb Bush aims the White House presenting himself as an anti-Washington figure

  

  Former Florida governor Jeb Bush vowed to fix a dysfunctional Washington as he began his US presidential bid with an attempt to move out of the shadow of the White House legacies left by his father and brother.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2015 - 07:28 UTC

  Cuba to be removed from terror sponsors' list, announced President Obama

  

  The White House announced on Tuesday that President Obama intends to remove Cuba from the US government's list of nations that sponsor terrorism, eliminating a major obstacle to the restoration of diplomatic relations after decades of hostilities. The decision to remove Cuba from the list represents a crucial step in Obama’s effort to turn the page on a Cold War-era dispute.

• Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 05:04 UTC

  White House says it prefers the UK to remain “strong, robust and united”

  

  The White House weighed in carefully on the Scottish independence referendum, saying Washington would respect the outcome of the vote but would prefer the United Kingdom to remain “strong, robust and united.”

• Friday, April 4th 2014 - 07:41 UTC

  White House targets methane emissions

  

  By Nicholas Cunningham of Oilprice.com - On March 28, the White House released a multi-pronged strategy to reduce methane emissions from a variety of sources, a step the administration says is an outgrowth of the President's Climate Action Plan announced last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

• Friday, May 10th 2013 - 07:54 UTC

  Change of policy? Obama hosts Chile and Peru presidents; Biden visits Brazil and Colombia

  

  The White House announced that Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera will travel to Washington in June and meet with President Barack Obama. The White House also said that Vice President Joe Biden’s next week will visit Brazil and Colombia with a stop in Trinidad and Tobago.