First Lady Melania Trump landed under cloudy skies in Accra, Ghana, on Oct. 2, the first stop in her extended solo trip to Africa.
Before greeting officials, the first lady accepted a bouquet of flowers wrapped in a kente cloth from Lillian Naa Adai Sai, an 8-year-old girl who looked starstruck looking up at Trump.
The first lady then greeted Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the first lady of Ghana, at the foot of a red carpet rolled out on the tarmac.
Before departing the airport, the two first ladies watched an arrival ceremony that featured tribal dancers and children waving Ghanaian and American flags.
Trump Believes Kavanaugh Will be Confirmed, Depends on FBI
The highly-anticipated full Senate vote on Kavanaugh will happen by Oct. 6, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) said.
The process has taken months, starting with most senators meeting privately with President Donald Trump’s nominee followed by a week of public hearings.
Trump Says Economic Policies Translating Into More Jobs
President Donald Trump told electrical contractors on Oct. 2, that his economic policies would translate into more jobs for their ranks as he highlighted a new trade deal among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
“We’re in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance—something which nobody thought you'd hear,” Trump said in a speech to the National Electrical Contractors Association Convention in Philadelphia, a day after celebrating the new North American trade deal.
Trump calls the new trade agreement USMCA, for U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. “Like YMCA or U.S. Marine Corps with an A at the end,” he explained.
Ricin Found in Mail Sent to Pentagon Officials
Pentagon officials said they discovered two packages suspected of containing the poison ricin, according to officials on Oct. 2.The packages set off alarms as they were being screened in an off-site security mail processing center.
“On Monday, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency detected a suspicious substance during mail screening at the Pentagon’s remote screening facility,“ Col. Rob Manning said in a statement. ”The envelopes were taken by the FBI this morning for further analysis. All USPS mail received at the Pentagon mail screening facility yesterday is currently under quarantine and poses no threat to Pentagon personnel.”
Amazon Ups Hourly Wage to $15, Will Advocate for Higher Pay
Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.The company, whose value topped $1 trillion briefly in September, was facing political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees.
“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO.
The wage hike also comes at a time Amazon needs to hire holiday workers amid the tightest job market in nearly two decades, making it more difficult to lure workers who have a lot more job choices than just a year ago. Amazon said it plans to hire more than 100,000 holiday workers, who will pack and ship boxes in its more than 100 warehouses around the country.
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