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1. The following excerpts are taken from Peter Aitken's Newsweek article dated August 17, 2025: (Begin excerpts) Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, did not hold back on his assessment of the Trump-Putin summit that took place last week, saying in a Sunday appearance on NBC News'...

1. The following excerpts are taken from the Jan. 19, 2002 Los Angeles Times news report: (Begin excerpts) BEIJING — About a month before President Bush is to make his first state visit to China, reports have surfaced that the U.S.-made presidential plane for Chinese President Jiang Zemin has...

1. The following excerpts are taken from an AP News report from Hanoi, Vietnam, dated 3rd July, by Paul Wiseman and Aniruddha Ghosal: (Begin excerpts) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country...

1. The following are the White House incumbent's comments in his truthsocial.com about the US-China trade framework after the London talks: OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME. FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT...

1. Dr George Koo had retired from a global advisory services firm where he advised clients on their China strategies and business operations. Educated at MIT, Stevens Institute and Santa Clara University, he is the founder and former managing director of International Strategic Alliances. He...

1. ...Speaking aboard the presidential plane on a flight back to Washington DC, Trump said European and Asian countries were "dying to make a deal". He also pushed back against a reporter's inquiry about American consumers' "pain threshold" as fears of steep price increases and a market...

1. Donald Trump has claimed world leaders panicked by his gargantuan global tariffs are “kissing my a**” in desperate bids to reduce the levies. The president made the bold remark during a 90-minute address as he attempted to court political donors at the National Republican Congressional...

1. A year ago, he was serving time in prison. Today, Navarro is Trump's key adviser on the tariffs that have roiled markets. Two years ago, Peter Navarro wrote a 30-page policy paper titled "The Case for Fair Trade" that urged the next Republican president to take aim at "those countries that...

1. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again. Russia’s United Nations ambassador says he can’t..... At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I...

1. The following are excerpts from a September 7 news report by TRT World: (Begin excerpts) Condemnations and calls for investigation are growing after Israeli occupation troops shot an American-Turkish woman in the head and killed her during an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank. The US...

1. The following are excerpts from a September 23 news report published by The Verge: (Begin excerpts) The Biden administration proposed new rules blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehicle software originating from “countries of concern,” a move that would effectively ban all auto...

1. The following are excerpts from a September 5 CBS News report: (Begin excerpts) Los Angeles — Hunter Biden offered a surprise guilty plea in his tax evasion case on Thursday, capping a whirlwind day in court in Los Angeles, where jury selection in his trial was set to begin. The...

1. The following are excerpts from Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress on July 24, 2024: (Begin excerpts) Mr. Speaker, I want to thank you for giving me the profound honor of addressing this great citadel of democracy for the fourth time. We meet today at a...

Why did the White House incumbent drop out halfway from the presidential race? Of course, he was forced to hand over the torch to his vice-president after tremendous pressure from his party. His decision to quit the race has nothing to do with age, mental fitness or saving democracy as claimed...

1. ...“That is crazy question, why we can't answer and attack these, especially this person, this military base where from these guided bombs or missile came, targeted us, killed our children,” he said. “So, for me, that's not rhetoric. For me, it's real plan. … Now this is the plan for all our...

In my previous post, I pointed the way to the US leader to reenter the White House for another term. His political arch-rival should not lose heart. Common sense will tell him that the so-called "101% success" is not the monopoly of a single candidate. In other words, if either candidate...

President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance has reportedly set off alarm bells among top Democrats, leaving some to openly question whether Biden can stay atop of the Democratic ticket. There is no need to ring the alarm bells in America. What is needed should be the White House incumbent's...

1. The following are excerpts from a 17 April 2023 CNBC news report: (Begin excerpts) Western companies were quick to shutter operations in Russia after the country’s military invasion of Ukraine last February. But U.S. and European microelectronic tech continues to power the Kremlin’s war...

1. The following are excerpts from Fernando Fong's May 10 article in The Rakyat Post. (Begin excerpts) In a recent development that has caught the public’s attention, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has reaffirmed the country’s stance on recognizing only sanctions imposed by...

How many anachronisms are there in the following sentence? "Jesus always carried a gun when he preached the gospel."