US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate floor and walks back to his office after the failure of both competing Republican and Democratic proposals to end the partial government shutdown in votes on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday.
US Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said "Donald Trump is taking us pell mell toward another war", in reference to the recent confrontation with Iran after the US killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike at the Baghdad airport on Jan 3.
US lawmakers are returning to Washington this week after recess. Both the Senate and House have scheduled hearings on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, on trade with China.
US defense media reports China's efforts to assist the search for a missing US sailor, Aug 3, 2017. [Photo/Screenshot]
URUMQI -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to build 210,700 houses for underprivileged people in 2019, authorities said Thursday at the ongoing session of the People's Congress of the region.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that could tighten the H-1B immigrant visa program that is popular with skilled workers from India and China.
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US President Donald Trump recently stated “Trade wars are easy to win”. Historical evidence tells a different story and also shows how a trade war between two main protagonists such as the US and China can quickly become “a world war” by impacting in numbers of ways in many other parts of the globe.
US Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, and Senator and former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley attended the event, among others.
US exports of crude oil to China reached more than 18 million barrels in March, up from more than 15 million in January, according to the US Energy Information Agency. At the current price of around a barrel, that translates to about billion dollars a month.
US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday will release the final version of the "public charge" rule that will affect legal immigrants seeking permanent residency, as the acting director of US immigration services offered a revised version of the famous poem at the Statue of Liberty that's in line with the new rule.