News chronological

Showing 10 items since 1128485

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - Iran War Day 163: Trump Considering Walking Away, Per Report

State of the Union: The Iranians claim to be communicating with the U.S. through intermediaries. The post Iran War Day 163: Trump Considering Walking Away, Per Report appeared first on The American Conservative .

The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, citing U.S. officials, said that President Donald Trump would be willing to “extend the current ceasefire indefinitely” if Iran’s nuclear program can be “kept in check” and traffic resumes in the Strait of Hormuz.  According to those officials, Trump had been “laying the groundwork” to declare victory if the Strait of Hormuz—which was free and open before the U.S. bombed Iran on February 28—can be reopened. They say that Trump would then be willing to walk away and declare victory even without a nuclear deal and would also probably lift the U.S. military blockade on Iranian ports. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, published on…Open

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Trump's week: Major Iran strikes halted, fallout for Pirro, new birthright citizenship challenges

President Trump on Sunday, August 2, explained his decision to cancel a new round of major strikes on Iran last weekend, saying that U.S. allies in the Middle East and Iran itself had asked for an alternative to the aggression. Speaking with reporters the next day, Trump returned to the subject of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, criticizing the decision by District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to drop the case against Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the pool. On Thursday, the president signed executive orders aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, expressing displeasure at the Supreme Court's reversal of an earlier action from his administration with similar goals. #Trump #WhiteHouse #Iran #Pirro…

AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Delta Flight 2204 evacuated by emergency slides after smoke forces landing on Atlanta taxiway

Roughly 200 passengers and crew aboard a Delta flight bound for Orlando evacuated down inflatable slides on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after smoke filled the cockpit, and the FAA says it will investigate. Delta Flight 2204 had barely left the ground Saturday morning when the crew reported fumes in the flight deck, […] The post Delta Flight 2204 evacuated by emergency slides after smoke forces landing on Atlanta taxiway appeared first on American Almanac .

Roughly 200 passengers and crew aboard a Delta flight bound for Orlando evacuated down inflatable slides on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after smoke filled the cockpit, and the FAA says it will investigate. Delta Flight 2204 had barely left the ground Saturday morning when the crew reported fumes in the flight deck, declared an emergency, and turned back toward Atlanta. The aircraft lifted off shortly before 7:30 a.m. and was back on the ground by about 8 a.m., landing not on a runway but on a taxiway at the nation's busiest airport. Within minutes, at least three inflatable evacuation slides deployed, and dozens of passengers clutching carry-on bags lined up along the pavement waiting for buses to ferry…Open