Politics

While so far Trump's trade focus was fallen mostly on Nafta countries, and to a lesser extent China, one country that is taking precautionary steps is the one which recently suffered a major loss when Trump signed an executive order to exit the TPP, effectively killing the trade deal: Japan. The TPP, which took years to negotiate among 12 countries, has often been described as being, at its core, a deal between the United States and Japan, the world's largest and third-largest economies respectively.

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will have their first official discussions since the inauguration in a phone call planned for Saturday, the Kremlin said, a first step towards what Trump has billed as a normalization of relations after three years of tensions marked by open hostility during the Obama regime.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress that if the states want to keep the possession, sale, and distribution of marijuana legal then Congress should pass a law that makes it legal at the federal level. “The United States Congress has made the possession of marijuana in every state, and distribution of it, an illegal act,” Sen. Sessions testified. “If that’s something is not desired any longer, Congress should pass a law to change the rule.” “It’s not so much the Attorney General’s job to decide what laws to enforce.

A new study reveals that Hillary Clinton received at least 800,000 votes from non-citizens during this years Presidential election, verifying claims made by President Trump. Political scientist Jesse Richman from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, published the research this week which he says conclusively proves that Clinton “won” the popular vote illegitimately. Washingtontimes.com reports: Based on national polling by a consortium of universities, a report by Mr. Richman said 6.4 percent of the estimated 20 million adult noncitizens in the U.S. voted in November.