Tag: President Donald Trump

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan to meet with both the country’s president and U.S. troops — saying that peace talks with the Taliban have resumed amid…

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani’s interest in Ukraine was about more than just dirt on Democrats. The former New York City mayor pursued a lucrative business deal with Ukraine’s former top prosecutor while pushing officials…

  The case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was charged with multiple war crimes before being convicted of a single lesser charge earlier this year, was troubling enough before things…

President Donald Trump provided a clear path Friday for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to come back to Kansas and run for the Senate. “He loves the people of Kansas,” the president said of Pompeo…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, scheduling a hearing for next week as they push closer to a possible vote on actual…

President Trump displayed a noticeable weakness in the knees Friday when speaking about legislation that Congress has overwhelmingly passed to impose sanctions on China for the crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Although the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered former White House counsel Donald McGahn to appear before Congress in a setback to President Donald Trump’s effort to keep his top aides from testifying. The outcome…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has fired the Navy’s top official, ending a stunning clash between President Donald Trump and top military leadership over the fate of a SEAL accused of war crimes…

Last month, President Trump called his hand-picked ambassador to the European Union, “a really good man, and a great American.” By Wednesday, the president had changed his tune, saying Gordon Sondland “is not a man…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A persistent buzz about Mike Pompeo stepping down as the top U.S. diplomat to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas has built to a roar as impeachment hearings into…