Politics

A recap of the key soundbites from the meeting between Trump and US airline CEOs in the White House:

Congressman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) has introduced House Joint Resolution 46, making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill within National Parks. Environmental groups oppose the bill that aims to roll back recently introduced regulations, making it harder for the National Park Service to monitor private oil and gas companies that want to extract oil and natural gas in split-estate national parks.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the BBC of spreading rumours and “fake news.” The leader of the Labour Party is slowly coming round to US President Donald Trump’s idea that mainstream media is in the business of promoting fake news. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says “there is no news,” that all speculative stories put out by the BBC are just “absolute nonsense.” He told BBC Breakfast: “I’m really surprised the BBC is reporting fake news. There is no news.

Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,

When Barack Obama was still in office, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the perpetrators of the 9/11 terror attacks, penned a letter to him. Though a judge recently ruled that letter could be sent to the White House before the outgoing president left office, the contents were to be withheld from the public until a month later - until after President Trump had assumed power.

After a fiery start to his foreign policy overtures, Trump is gradually normalizing his approach to international diplomacy.