Perhaps the president is onto something.Upon returning from a potentially game-changing diplomatic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un this week, President Donald Trump tweeted: "So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North ...
After Election Day in 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won a landslide victory over Republican Barry Goldwater and Democrats procured a 68-32 majority in the Senate, the Democratic Caucus of the U.S. Senate met in private. Rightly confident -- they now had the numbers needed to pass Medicare, ...
Each week the Standard-Examiner hashes out issues large and small and takes a thumbs-up, thumbs-down stance. Have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down you’d like to give? Email a submission of 100 words or less to jmccabe@standard.net.Here’s what we recommend this week for praise and ...
President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy.The British prime minister once counseled, “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”At his Singapore summit, Trump smartly saluted a ...
That was quite a show Donald Trump put on in Canada. Insulting our closest friends and trading partners while sucking up to Russian leader Vladimir Putin -- well, that got people's attention. As Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium, tweeted, "Just tell us what Vladimir has on you. ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The Standard-Examiner received 16 awards and four honorable mentions at the 2018 Utah Journalism Awards and reporter Mark Shenefelt received the <a href="https://mailchi.mp/a67528c13785/announcing-the-2018-utah-spj-honorees-1397858" target="_blank">Don Baker ...
