Beyond the question of why Trump let his cabinet secretaries (and top military adviser) waste their time marketing a soon-to-be-jettisoned policy, there is the question of why he pressed pause at all.
The Dutch-flagged polar cruise ship will sail to the Canary Islands where its passengers will be examined as disease experts share theories on how and where the unusual outbreak began.
The US president’s decision came just hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a news conference talking up the so-called Project Freedom mission, as he declared combat operations were “over”.
A cruise ship with nearly 150 people aboard was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after three passengers died and at least three other people were left seriously ill in a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus, according to the World Health Organization and the ship’s operator.
The prime minister took the unusual step of sharing the fake image to confront online critics who fell for the falsehood and complained that she should be ashamed of herself.
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries advances Donald Trump’s goal of weakening the powerful oil bloc.