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Ex-US Homeland Security official says Trump wanted to trade Puerto Rico fo
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], Aug 20 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Donald Trump wanted to exchange Puerto Rico for Danish-owned island of Greenland, Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, said in an interview on Wednesday.
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Trump wanted electrified border wall with spikes that could tear human fle
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Oct 02 (ANI): President Donald Trump is so impatient to stop immigration in the United States that he suggested the border wall be electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh, and proposed that it should be fortified with a "water-filled trench" with "snakes
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Mulvaney said bringing up Russian political interference concern wasn't a
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 25 (ANI): Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had urged former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen not to bring up concerns of Russian interference in the 2020 presidential election with President Donald Trump.
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Trump says no plans to reinstate family separation policy
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 10 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) said that he was "not looking" to revive his administration's policy of separating migrant families at the US-Mexico border.
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Day after Homeland Security Secretary's resignation, Trump fires US Secret
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 9 (ANI): Less than 24 hours after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned, President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) removed Secret Service Director Randolph 'Tex' Alles from his post.
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Homeland Security Dept Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 8 (ANI): Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has stepped down from her post, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday (local time).
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USA imposes visa restrictions on Ghana
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 1 (ANI): The United States, on Thursday (local time), imposed visa restrictions on Ghana for a "lack of cooperation in accepting their nationals ordered removed from the United States."
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Amid shutdown, Pelosi asks Trump to defer State of the Union address
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jan 17 (ANI): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday asked US President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address set to be held on January 29, amid the partial government shutdown that has entered its record 26th day.
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US accuses China of facilitating cyber theft
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): United States of America has accused China of enabling cyber theft and hacking of multiple the US and global managed service and cloud providers.
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Homeland Security calls for 'verifiable ballots' in 2020 US poll
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 23 (ANI): The United States Department of Homeland Security has asked poll officials to ensure that the ballots which will be used in the 2020 presidential election are "verifiable and auditable".
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Democratic Party launches software to counter bots on social media
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [USA], Aug 12 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections for all 435 House of Representative members and a third of the United States (US) Senate , the Democratic Party has launched an internal software to tackle potential meddling on social media. The elections are sch
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'Obama was aware of Russian meddling before polls'
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 23 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump claimed that his predecessor, Barack Obama, was aware of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential polls before the elections itself.
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