Trump says Congress needs to pass crime bill, including 30-day extension of D.C. takeover
"We're going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions, because you can't have 30 days," Trump said at the Kennedy Center after he announced the 2025 honorees.
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- The Independent
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The Sun
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- The Sun
Hillary Clinton admits she will nominate Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize if he pulls off major promise
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"If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize," she said. She explained that she doesn't want to allow a 'capitulation' to Putin. White House officials have touted the idea of Trump being awarded the peace prize - a gong that was won by Barack Obama in December 2009. Officials are reportedly "very serious" about helping Trump win the prize, per The Hill. "There's no question the pressure's on," a former aide, who served in Trump's first term, told The Hill. "Trump sees this prize as the ultimate capstone to how history will remember him." Trump says tyrant Putin's need to kill 'might be in his genes' but onslaught 'hurts his negotiations' as leaders head to Alaska for Ukraine peace summit In July, Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary claimed: 'It's well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.' She said the president had managed to broker around a peace agreement or ceasefire per month over his first six months of his second term. Several world leaders, including Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has backed nominating Trump for the peace prize. Hun Manet, the president of Cambodia, nominated Trump after a deal was struck for a ceasefire following the clashes at the Cambodia-Thailand border. Netanyahu handed over a letter to Trump - a moment that the president described as very meaningful. Pakistan's government also championed a move to nominate Trump, praising the leadership he showed in striking a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Leaders in Rwanda and Gabon have also endorsed Trump. Olivier Nduhungirehe, the Rwandan foreign minister, credited Trump for how he helped end the 30-year conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reports in the Norwegian press have claimed Trump cold-called the country's finance minister to discuss the peace prize. 'Out of the blue, while finance minister was walking down the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called, he wanted the Nobel prize - and to discuss tariffs," an excerpt in Dagens Næringsliv said. If Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize, he would join a small club of ex-presidents who achieved the feat. 7 7 Obama was awarded the gong for his work to strengthen international diplomacy. Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights work and conflict resolution efforts in his post-White House career. Former president Theodore Roosevelt won the award for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese war that was fought between 1904 and 1905. And, Woodrow Wilson was recognized in 1919 for creating the League of Nations. Trump's meeting with Putin will be his first in six years with the Russian strongman. He warned Putin that Russia faces "very severe" consequences if he doesn't seem interested in striking a peace deal. Ahead of the summit, Russian forces launched aerial attacks in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Ukrainian soldiers were forced to evacuate a Donetsk town. During a gaggle on board Air Force One, Trump seemed to imply that Putin's urge for killing may be in his genes. "In [Putin's] mind it helps him make a better deal if they can continue the killing," he told reporters. "Maybe it's a part of the world, maybe it's a part of his fabric, his genes, his genetics but he thinks it gives him strength in negotiating. I think it hurts him." Russian officials have been pictured arriving in Anchorage ahead of the high-stakes summit. Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, was seen wearing a sweatshirt with Soviet Union branding on it. Lavrov's choice of clothing has been perceived as a troll to the West. Trump-Putin's meeting will not be the first high stakes summit that has taken place in Anchorage. In 1971, President Richard Nixon held a 30-minute discussion with Emperor Hirohito at the Elmendorf-Richardson base. And in 2021, Joe Biden met with senior Chinese officials in Anchorage - just two months into his presidency. But, the choice of Elmendorf-Richardson as a location means that there will be the optics of a Russian president visiting a US military base. The White House had reportedly tried to avoid this possibility in the run-up to the summit but failed to find an alternative location. 7 7
Reuters
3 minutes ago
- Reuters
In split decision, court clears Trump to restart CFPB mass firings
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Friday found that U.S. President Donald Trump should be able to resume mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that a lower court had lacked jurisdiction in temporarily blocking this, court records showed. However, the court said its decision would not take immediate effect, allowing lawyers representing CFPB workers and pro-consumer organizations to seek reconsideration by the full Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. "We hold that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider the claims predicated on loss of employment, which must proceed through the specialized-review scheme" under laws governing the civil service, the majority wrote. Other objections raised by the plaintiffs did not concern final decisions made by the agency and so could not be reviewed in court, wrote U.S. Circuit Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both Trump appointees. In a dissent, Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard said the lower court had acted properly in blocking the Trump administration from eradicating the CFPB entirely as the lawsuit played out, writing that "it is emphatically not within the discretion of the President or his appointees to decide that the country would benefit most if there were no Bureau at all."
