Politics

Following several veiled jabs at Trump in the last few days by the president, The Donald came out swinging last night slamming Obama as "a president who doesn't have a clue." Trump's tirade comes, as The Hill reports, after Obama used official White House events to comment on several of Trump's plans, calling his tax proposals "crazy." It appears, as expected, that no one is off limits to Trump once they start taking shots at him as the GOP presidential nominee lashed out, if "he’s going to start campaigning...

The anticlimatic conclusion to today's OPEC meeting came earlier courtesy of Bloomberg which moments ago reported that OPEC has failed to reach a new oil supply agreement, but that it has agreed to appoint a Nigerian candidate for new OPEC secretary general.

Moments ago, in a move that will infuriate Turkey, the German parliament withstood a barrage of pressure from the Turkish government, and approved a symbolic resolution that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a ‘genocide’, a step widely viewed as a tacit escalation against Turkey.  The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining. The move was largely expected and was supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A law in Kansas is creating chaos among voters, especially younger voters in the state. In 2013, Kansas passed a law that requires residents to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and if it isn't provided, the registration is put in suspense, leaving residents unable to vote. While you must be a US citizen to vote in American elections, most states allow those who register to simply sign a statement affirming they are citizens and provide a driver's license number, Social Security number, or other proof of residence according to Reuters.

A World War 3 scenario looms as both the Syrian army flanked by Russians, and the US army flanking Kurds head to Raqqa, Syria to ‘destroy ISIS’.  A massive convoy of soldiers from the Syrian Armed Forces traveled to the Hama-Raqqa border over the weekend, in order to liberate the city from ISIS.