Tag: President Donald Trump

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown.…

One summer day, years ago, I chanced upon the diary of a German soldier from the early 1940s in a flea market in New York City. It was buried among a bunch of other random…

On Sunday evening, news broke that the Trump administration was targeting Jerome Powell — the Federal Reserve chair, whom President Trump has been raging about for months — with a highly dubious criminal investigation into…

On Aug. 1, 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed into the water during rush hour. Thirteen people died, and dozens more were injured. In the immediate aftermath, the president,…

U.S. President Donald Trump said a second wave of attacks on Venezuela has been canceled, citing improved cooperation from the country. Venezuela is “working well” with the U.S. on rebuilding its oil and gas infrastructure…

You would think Congressional Republicans would take offense from being kept out of the loop of last Saturday’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Heck, even the U.S. oil industry had been alerted to the…

Americans are trying to figure out President Trump’s goals in Venezuela, but spare a thought this week for Greenland. The President has good strategic instincts about the world’s largest island, so it’s regrettable that his…

As Sunday dawned in Caracas and Washington, a new reality was also apparent a day after the U.S. snatched dictator Nicolás Maduro in a daring raid.  To wit, the dictator’s cronies are still running Venezuela,…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fashions himself a tough guy, but on Monday he played the role of human-resources administrator, thundering that he would be adding a letter to Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s “personnel file.” Kelly,…

Though President Donald Trump may not admit it, Saturday’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro means the United States is once again in the business of regime change. At least that’s the usual outcome when…