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☆ British Foreign Secretary David Cameron meeting with Trump on Monday night
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Kaitlan Collins | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will meet with Donald Trump at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club on Monday night, two people familiar with the visit told CNN. “The Foreign Secretary is on his way to Washington DC, where he will hold discussions with US Secretary of State Blinken, other Biden administration figures and members of Congress. “Ahead of his visit to Washington, the Foreign Secretary will meet former President Trump in Florida today. The foreign secretary of one of America’s closest allies, Cameron served as prime minister from 2010 to 2016, stepping down before Trump assumed the presidency the following year. Trump and Cameron have both in recent days criticized Israel’s handling of its war in Gaza.

Persons: David Cameron, Donald Trump, Antony Blinken, Biden, Trump, ” Cameron, America, Ukraine’s, Mike Johnson, America’s, Cameron, “, Israel “, Israel, CNN’s Jack Forrest, Kate Sullivan, Rob Picheta Organizations: CNN, British, Washington DC, State, Western, Russia, Trump, Conservative Party, Labour, Sunday Times, Israel, Gaza Ministry, Health Locations: South Florida, Washington, Ukraine, Florida, languish, Gaza, Israel

☆ Opinion: America isn’t cool anymore. Just ask the French
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Opinion Euny Hong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I asked her excitedly in French, “What do you think about the abortion rights thing?”“C’est fou, hein?” she said. She continued, “Trump, he wants to reverse abortion rights. Unbelievable.”“Oh!” I said, “I meant about how France is writing abortion rights into the Constitution.”“Oh that?” she said, less excitedly. On the other hand, French women were allowed to open their own checking accounts in 1965 — horrific until you realize that their American counterparts were not granted that right until 1974. But compared to today’s America, France looks like the version of a feminist utopia that could only be dreamed of by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie universe.

Persons: Roe, Wade, Laurence Rossignol, Le Monde, Rossignol, fou, hein, ”, “ Trump, “, Alexis De Tocqueville, America “, Barack Obama, George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, —, Congrès, I’ve, ” Claude Malhuret, she’d, Gabriel Attal, Greta Gerwig’s Organizations: CNN, CNN — America, US, Democracy, Communist, Minnesota, American, Equality, Fraternity Locations: Paris, America, France, French, Spain, Communist China, Versailles

He dreamed of studying business administration to help his family’s stores. He enjoyed taking care of his younger siblings and was “very polite, very respectful, very intelligent,” according to his mosque’s president. A Palestinian-American teenager was killed by a barrage of gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Friday. The U.S. State Department confirmed the killing without naming the victim, but the teenager’s family identified him as Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, 17. Tawfic and his family had moved to the West Bank temporarily in May to connect with relatives — he hoped to improve his Arabic while he was there and planned to return to the United States for college.

Persons: Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, Tawfic, ”, Sherean Murad, — Organizations: West Bank, U.S . State Department, Muslim Academy Locations: Palestinian, New Orleans, America, Gretna, United States

It is the first major piece of the multi-pronged judicial overhaul plan to get this far in the legislative process. The judicial overhaul is a package of bills that each need to pass three votes in the Knesset. Defending his plans, the prime minister has pointed to countries like the United States, where politicians control which federal judges are appointed and approved. Should the overhaul pass, the changes will be the most extreme shakeup to Israel’s judiciary since its founding in 1948. Its executive, the Bar Council, approved the decision to petition the Supreme Court to cancel the reasonableness law if it passes on Monday, the Bar said.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Aryeh Deri, Critics, Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Joe Biden, New York Times ’ Thomas Friedman, ” Biden, Friedman, ” Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog –, –, Herzog, ” Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, Sunday, Israeli, Court, Critics, Israel Democracy Institute, Air, New York Times, White, Biden, Israel Bar Association, Bar, Association Locations: Jerusalem, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, United States, Washington

As a result, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Bank of America (BAC) to pay more than $100 million to customers and $90 million in penalties. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also ordered Bank of America (BAC) to pay $60 million in fines. “Bank of America wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double-dipped on fees, and opened accounts without consent,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a statement. Bank of America noted in an email to CNN that those fees were eliminated last year. In 2014, it was ordered by the CFPB to pay $727 million in redress to consumers for illegal credit card practices.

Persons: Wells, ”, Rohit Chopra, Bank of America “, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, Bank of, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Bank of America, Currency, “ Bank of, OCC, CNN, of America Locations: New York, United States

☆ What Tucker Carlson Leaves Behind as He Is Shown the Door
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Carlson’s departure upended Fox’s lucrative prime-time lineup and shocked a media world far more accustomed to his remarkable staying power. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr. Carlson’s show frequently promoted the Kremlin’s point of view, attacking U.S. sanctions and blaming the conflict on American designs for expanding NATO. The drought of premium advertisers on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” — driven away by boycotts targeting his more racist and inflammatory segments — did not seem to dent his standing within the network, so long as the audience stuck around. Disdainful of the cable network’s top executives, Mr. Carlson cultivated the impression that he was close to the Murdoch family and, perhaps, untouchable. But he prospered in tandem with Mr. Trump’s presidency, as the New York real estate tycoon made frank nativism and seething cultural resentment the primary touchstones of conservative politics.

☆ ‘Confronting Saddam Hussein’ Review: ‘Bush’s War,’ or America’s?
▼ + stars: | 2002-02-05 | by ( John Bolton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, calling for America “to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein,” passed the Senate by unanimous consent and the House by 360-38. In October 2002, the Senate authorized force to overthrow Saddam by 77-23, and the House by 296-133. In March 2003, when the war began, 72% of Americans supported President George W. Bush’s decision; his approval-disapproval rating was 71%-25%. Today, supporters of “Bush’s war” aren’t exactly thick on the ground. Melvyn Leffler’s “Confronting Saddam Hussein,” however, assesses the decision to attack, and its immediate aftermath, in a calm, reasoned and persuasive fashion.

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