LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. A person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity confirmed Volker’s resignation, which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona State University, where…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. A statement issued in President Donald Trump’s name gave no further details, such…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly forced out John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser with whom he had strong disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and a cascade of other global challenges. The sudden shake-up marked the latest departure of a prominent voice of dissent from the president’s inner circle, as Trump has…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight months after first raising the idea, President Trump on Wednesday said his administration is again “very seriously” looking into ending the practice of conferring U.S. citizenship on anyone born in the United States. “We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump threatened undefined retaliation Friday against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence. “If they did that, we’d just reciprocate,” Trump said during a wide-ranging impromptu gaggle with reporters at the White House, en route to fundraisers in New York. He added:…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge on Friday blocked a move by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop migrants from claiming asylum unless they had entered the country at an official border crossing, news outlets reported. The policy, enacted by Trump last year, is among a host of measures his government has taken against the…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump, President of the United States of America has claimed America will soon find a cure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The US president also vowed that the country would also put an end to childhood cancer very soon. Trump in a campaign rally at Cincinnati, Ohio said, “We will achieve…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding. The conservative-majority court on a 5-4 vote with…