Thursday 15 April, 2021
Trump denied any knowledge of a directive to cover up the ship’s name, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Trump was speaking at a rally in Ohio yesterday evening.
McCain died on 25 August from brain cancer.
Barack Obama and George W Bush are among those speaking about the senator during today’s service.
John McCain’s remains will lie in state in the US Capitol tomorrow, followed by a funeral service on Saturday.
A private ceremony will be held this morning at the Arizona State Capitol Museum rotunda, where McCain will lie in state.
McCain has take a shot at Trumpian policies in a farewell statement to US citizens.
A number of memorial services are due to take place for the former senator this week.
His father and grandfather were both four-star admirals in the US Navy.
The veteran politician is survived by his wife Cindy and seven children.
The 81-year-old was diagnosed last year.
John Weaver has advised George Bush Sr and John McCain. He’s a Republican to the core. He’s never seen anything like Donald Trump.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats distanced himself from his boss in the White House.
Paul Ryan, Jeff Sessions and John McCain have all called on Moore to drop out of the Senate race in Alabama.
McCain’s opposition is likely to doom the effort to repeal.
Three Republican Senators voted with Democrats to defeat the measure.
John McCain received a standing ovation from his colleagues as he entered the chamber.
The 80-year-old senator has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
McCain has been one of the more moderate Republican voices in Washington DC during the first six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The US intelligence community has said Moscow interfered to help Republican Donald Trump win.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has warned of “massive disappointment” if Trump backs away from his policy of mass deportation.
John McCain says he can not “emphasise enough how strongly I disagree” with Trump’s statement regarding Khizr and Ghazala Khan.
The Russian President has signed off on legislation to absorb Crimea into Russia. He says he will holding off on any return punitive measures, following the announcement of US sanctions.
The EU has suspended historic partnership talks with Ukraine today as 200,000 protesters gathered in Kiev.
The two US senators, one a former presidential candidate, say that Ireland should “close the door” on tax abuses.
He also criticises Putin for siding with the Syrian government in an article which hits back at the Russian President following his own New York Times opinion piece.
A Republican candidate’s surprise take of the senate seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy’s death in 2010 shook Obama’s administration – now, with the same seat up for grabs, Sam McNally wonders if the president has anything to fear this time around.
Enda Kenny met with Barack Obama at the G8 summit in Lough Erne this week but did not raise recent US Senate committee claims about Ireland being a tax haven for Apple.
Associated Press reports that the White House has reached a view that the Syrian crisis requires greater intervention by western powers.
Carl Levin and John McCain have dismissed the Irish ambassador’s account of Ireland’s corporate tax system.
Corporate giant Apple transferred 64 per cent of its income to Irish subsidiaries.
The firm pays just two per cent tax on profits in Ireland but has denied using any “tax gimmicks”.
The union representing immigration service employees say proposals to reform US immigration ‘will damage public safety’.
From Eisenhower to Obama versus Romney, this video shows how campaign videos have changed (and how a lot has remained the same…)
Winning Nobel Prizes, making Viagra ads, and playing ‘Mitt Romney’ – just some of what the losers of past US presidential elections have done and what might await Romney or Obama on Wednesday morning.
There hasn’t been much election fever spreading from America this year. We have some theories.
The Republican National Convention gets under way in Tampa, Florida this week as Mitt Romney accepts the party’s nomination for the presidency. Here’s how previous conventions have unfolded…
The 2008 Republican nominee defends his vice-presidential pick after the last Republican VP slates her credentials.
“A president shouldn’t run away from a challenge, and we have a national challenge in Syria now,” Syrian president Bashar Assad said in a defiant interview with German television last night.
The military crackdown has turned to southern Daraa province, where the uprising began a year ago as pro-Assad troops shelled a village there and clashed with military defectors.
