Today in News:
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- Trump threatens the very foundations of American world order.
- China emerges as Europe's unlikely global partner as they seek climate leadership after USA relinquishes its hold as world leader at the EU. The European Union seeks new allies to uphold the Paris Agreement.
- Trump brags about a non-exisitent tax bill in the Rose Garden.
- Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) stated that U.S. President Donald Trump badly misunderstood their research when he cited it on Thursday to justify withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said that elements of a U.S. anti-missile system in Alaska and South Korea were a challenge to Russia and that Moscow had no choice but to build up its own forces in response.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to sell employees’ jobs in a buyout program to reduce staff. Scott Pruitt, Head of the EPA was an instrumental voice in convincing Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, doubts that human beings drive climate change.
- Trump chose to continue Barack Obama's policy of signing a six-month waiver overriding a 1995 law requiring that the Tel-Aviv embassy be transferred to Jerusalem.
- The ethics waivers exempt staffers from Trump’s executive order on ethics meant to avoid conflicts of interest after Trump campaigned on “draining the swamp” of lobbyists in government. 17 White House staffers were granted these ethics waivers.
- Both the hiring of private counsel and the announcement of Sean Spicer to refer questions to Marc Kasowitz signal the beginning of a whole new chapter in the President’s ongoing Russiagate scandal.
- President Trump may reverse any form of the punishments imposed on Russia for election meddling by the Obama administration. Trump considering the return of Russian compounds in Maryland that enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
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