Jonathan Easley

1 week ago | thehill.com | Jonathan Easley

IT’S LINING UP to be a crucial week of diplomacy for President Trump, with Russia, Gaza and the president’s trade wars speeding toward new inflection points. Trump this week is venting frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Congressional Republicans urge him to crack down on Russia with new sanctions.

2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Jonathan Easley

A FEDERAL JUDGE on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to ban foreign students from attending Harvard University, the latest in the ongoing feud between President Trump and the nation’s oldest and richest school. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, an appointee of former President Obama, agreed with Harvard’s argument that it would “sustain immediate and irreparable injury” if the ban was implemented immediately.

2 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Jonathan Easley

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2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Jonathan Easley

WASHINGTON AND THE NATION are on edge after two staffers with the Israeli Embassy were fatally shot in an apparent politically motivated, antisemitic attack at an event outside the Capital Jewish Museum. The staffers, Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, were a couple and known figures in the Israeli-American political community in Washington. The couple planned to visit Jerusalem next week, where Lischinsky was going to propose to Milgrim.

2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Jonathan Easley

President Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in front of the cameras at the White House on Wednesday over what Trump described as a “genocide” against white farmers in the country. Ramaphosa was ostensibly in town to discuss trade, but tensions bubbled up over Trump’s focus on a law in South Africa that allows the government to take private land for redistribution as part of an effort to address the legacy of racial apartheid.