Tag: Donald Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sooner-than-expected departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis shifts the focus to President Donald Trump’s appointment of an acting Pentagon chief and plans for a permanent replacement. It also signals an acrimonious…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said today it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat. The surprisingly blunt statement jars…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says U.S. troops do not need to remain in Syria. Trump tweeted today: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”…

TNS — Three years after forging the Paris climate agreement, world leaders are meeting again to decide how to turn emissions-cutting pledges into action. But as talks begin this week in Katowice, Poland, a clash…

The U.S., Canada and Mexico signed a new trade deal championed by President Donald Trump to replace the quarter-century-old NAFTA pact, capping a year of intense negotiations and offering a glimmer of certainty amid rising…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel in the Russia investigation is accusing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of violating his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to federal investigators, an extraordinary allegation that could expose…

We’re not sure why, but President Donald Trump has worked this election cycle to see that Americans should feel very afraid of immigrants. From coast to coast, Mr. Trump has been casting immigrants as our…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said today he had spoken with Saudi Arabia’s king, who “denies any knowledge” of what happened to the Saudi journalist who disappeared after entering the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul…

Kudos to singer Taylor Swift for getting political this week and urging young people to vote during her “artist of the year” acceptance speech at the 2018 American Music Awards and in an earlier Instagram…

It’s getting increasingly difficult to believe the U.S. Supreme Court can be an arbiter of justice. As illustrated with the recent appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, justices today are selected, more and more, because of their…