Media captionThe surprising thing about America’s migrant past The US House of Representatives has voted to condemn President Donald Trump after a series of attacks aimed at four congresswomen. The resolution denounced Mr Trump’s “racist comments that have legitimised fear and hatred of New Americans and people of colour”. Mr Trump had been accused of […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Rep Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, left, shown with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Queens, New York, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, spoke out against the president President Donald Trump telling four congresswomen to “go back” to the countries where they came from has caused a storm in Washington’s political circles. But […]
Media captionFallout from Trump’s tweets attacking four congresswomen continues to embroil Washington The US House of Representatives has voted to symbolically condemn President Donald Trump after a series of attacks aimed at four congresswomen. The resolution denounced Mr Trump’s “racist comments that have legitimised fear and hatred of New Americans and people of colour”. It […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Rep Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, left, shown with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Queens, New York, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, spoke out against the president President Donald Trump telling four congresswomen to “go back” to the countries where they came from has caused a storm in Washington’s political circles. But […]
Media captionAyanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib responded to the attacks at a press conference on Monday US President Donald Trump has insisted he is not a racist after his Twitter attacks on four US congresswomen were widely condemned as racist. Mr Trump had suggested the four women – all US citizens […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Rep Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, left, shown with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Queens, New York, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, spoke out against the president President Donald Trump telling four congresswomen to “go back” to the countries where they came from has caused a storm in Washington’s political circles. But […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some people believe Area 51 is home to crashed alien spaceships It started as a bit of a joke, but now the US Air Force has told people not to go near Area 51. More than a million people have RSVP’d to an event on Facebook, threatening to storm […]
Media captionApollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins spoke to the BBC in April One of the surviving crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon – Apollo 11 – has returned to the site where the mission set off 50 years ago. Michael Collins, 88, visited Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. He marked […]
Image copyright Reuters Facebook’s plan for a cryptocurrency has come under further attack at a US hearing, with politicians calling the company “delusional” and not trusted. The Senate Banking Committee is quizzing Facebook executive David Marcus over the tech giant’s intention to launch its Libra digital currency. The company had showed “through scandal after scandal […]
Media captionAyanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib responded to the attacks at a press conference on Monday The four US congresswomen attacked by US President Donald Trump in tweets widely called racist have dismissed his remarks as a distraction. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib urged the US […]
