WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would turn back the 7,000-person caravan of migrants from Central America when they reach the United States’ border with Mexico. “The United States also has a message for those who are currently part of this caravan or any caravan which follows: You will not be successful at getting into the United States illegally no matter what,” Pompeo said at a briefing with reporters at the State Department.“I repeat, the caravan will not cross our southern border under any circumstances,” Pompeo said. Pompeo briefed reporters on several issues, including the U.S. investigation currently underway on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was allegedly killed in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul on October 2. Pompeo also spoke about the elections in Afghanistan, which he said were successful despite some glitches. But he spoke in most detail about the thousands … [Read more...] about Pompeo to Caravan Migrants: ‘You Will Not Be Successful in Getting into the United States’
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NOAA Unveils Its Winter Outlook for the United States
It looks like this winter could be a bit warmer than usual, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Winter Outlook unveiled Thursday. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s Winter Outlook for December through February foresees above-average temperatures as a likelihood across the northern and western parts of the United States, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. NOAA Climate Prediction Center notes that even during a warmer-than-average winter, periods of cold temperatures and snowfall are likely to occur. Its seasonal outlooks do not project snowfall accumulations, though; those typically are not predictable more than a week in advance. Seasonal forecasts can be particularly challenging to predict, meteorologists say. NBC10 Boston's Early Warning Weather team plans to release its own Winter Forecast in November. NOAA also expects that El Nino will have a 70 to 75 percent chance of developing. El Nino is an oceanic climate interaction … [Read more...] about NOAA Unveils Its Winter Outlook for the United States
United States seeking Mexican steel export quotas
By Frank Jack Daniel MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to impose quotas on Mexican steel exports as part of a negotiation to remove metals tariffs, the chief trade negotiator of Mexico's incoming government said on Monday, adding the issue needed to be resolved within weeks. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in June, citing national security reasons. Although the three countries agreed a renewed trade deal earlier this month, the measures remain in place. Jesus Seade, who represented Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the wider trade talks, said the current Mexican government was leading the metals talks but that he had spoken to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on the matter. "I have had a couple of calls with Lighthizer, and it is along those lines, to manage volumes etc with Mexico and with Canada," Seade said in an interview with Reuters, declining to give more details … [Read more...] about United States seeking Mexican steel export quotas
Chinese State Media: United States Is a ‘Cyber Predator’
China’s state-run Xinhua news service vented Beijing’s mounting anger at U.S. allegations of espionage and election interference by claiming on Monday that it is the U.S., not China, that menaces the Internet as a “cyber predator.” Xinhua raged against Vice President Mike Pence’s October 5 speech to the Hudson Institute, which is certainly turning out to be one of the most consequential foreign policy orations of recent times. Admirers of Pence’s speech compare it to Winston Churchill’s warning about the descent of the Iron Curtain at the beginning of the Cold War. The Chinese denounce it as “groundless” slander.Xinhua’s Monday editorial claimed the U.S. is projecting its own cyber-sins onto innocent, blameless China: The United States has kept cooking up such charges against China over recent years, regardless of the fact that it is an unrivaled cyber superpower, home to Internet founders, most of the core infrastructure, and … [Read more...] about Chinese State Media: United States Is a ‘Cyber Predator’
Alec Baldwin: ‘Overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump’
Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post Published 8:14 am PDT, Monday, October 15, 2018 Actor Alec Baldwin urged voters to use their collective voice during the upcoming midterm election and "overthrow" President Donald Trump. A day after Baldwin portrayed Trump in a "Saturday Night Live" skit about the president's recent meeting with rapper Kanye West, he addressed voters at a political fundraiser for the New Hampshire Democratic Party, according to the Associated Press. "The way we implement change in America is through elections," Baldwin said Sunday night, according to the news agency. "We change governments here at home in an orderly and formal way. And in that orderly and formal way and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump." Baldwin went on to say that some of the Republicans in power are setting up the country for failure. "There is a small cadre of people currently in power who are hellbent on continuing a malicious … [Read more...] about Alec Baldwin: ‘Overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump’