Presidency of Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government not to carry out a chemical weapons attack appears to have worked, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said on June 28.

"It appears that they took the warning seriously," Mattis said, referring to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

CNN accepted the resignations Monday of three journalists involved in a retracted story about a supposed investigation into a pre-inaugural meeting between an associate of President Donald Trump and the head of a Russian investment fund.

Russia is reportedly recalling Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the man who has emerged as a focal point in the FBI probe into Russia's election meddling, writes The Hill. The Kremlin did not confirm to the news outlet when Kislyak would head back to Russia, but the US-Russia Business Council on July 11 will have a going away party for Kislyak at the St. Regis Hotel, the report said.

When a successor tries to prove that he is different from his predecessor, then he takes an extra administrative burden - the burden of proving himself/herself right.

The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, The Washington Post reported late on June 14.

Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

While the number of those killed in the Grenfell Tower has officially risen to 12 and 18 of the 78 ahve been critically injured, with fears that the death toll is almost certain to increase, some ISIS and Islamist sympathisers took to twitter to celebrate the tragedy, despite the fact that some of those in the flaming tower were Muslims themselves.

Officials in Maryland and the U.S. capital Washington will sue President Donald Trump for accepting payments and benefits from foreign governments through his business empire, news reports said late on June 11.

The suit centers on the so-called emoluments clause, which bans U.S. officials from taking gifts or other benefits from foreign governments.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused Qatar of being a "high level" sponsor of terrorism, potentially hindering the U.S. Department of State's efforts to ease heightening tensions and a blockade of the Gulf
nation by Arab states and others.

Former FBI Director James Comey yesterday accused the Trump administration of defaming him and telling lies about the agency, but declined to offer his opinion on whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice by asking him to drop an investigation into the former national security advisor.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has largely resorted to irony at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) as reporters seemingly failed to come up with new questions, focusing on Moscow's alleged meddling in the US elections, and Donald Trump.