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Trump’s next legal challenges
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial may have ended in acquittal, but the U.S. president is hardly in the clear. The next nine months before the 2020 presidential election are packed with landmines that...
View ArticleTrump weighs tapping nuke envoy to negotiate with Russia
Aides to President Donald Trump want to name a high-level negotiator to oversee nuclear talks with Moscow, former U.S. officials say — an effort that may be delaying a Trump decision on whether to...
View ArticleAssange fight draws in Trump’s new intel chief Ric Grenell
Attorneys for Julian Assange, who is fighting a U.S. extradition request on espionage and computer hacking charges, plan to introduce evidence in the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition hearing involving...
View ArticleTrump asked China for help getting reelected, Bolton book claims
U.S. President Donald Trump asked President Xi Jinping of China for domestic political help to boost his electoral prospects in the midst of the two leaders’ trade war last summer, according to the...
View ArticleUS court takes no immediate action on John Bolton book
WASHINGTON — A federal judge denied on Saturday the Trump administration’s request to block the release of John Bolton’s memoir, noting that the former national security adviser’s book had already been...
View ArticleInside Trump’s Oklahoma debacle
Donald Trump’s campaign advisers had it all mapped out: A blowout rally in Oklahoma — coupled with a withering ad launched days earlier questioning Joe Biden’s mental acuity — would finally shift the...
View ArticleWhat Donald Trump really thinks of European leaders
European leaders probably didn’t need a behind-the-scenes memoir to know that Donald Trump is a volatile leader who does not hold many of them in high regard. Nonetheless, the details of what the U.S....
View ArticleTrump national security adviser compares Xi Jinping to Josef Stalin
PHOENIX, Arizona — Robert O’Brien, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, equated Chinese President Xi Jingping to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on Wednesday in an aggressive speech...
View ArticleThe 6 Trump bombshells still waiting to explode
WASHINGTON — We have known since nearly the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency that he believes his first attorney general was a dangerous idiot. We have known for nearly as long that his first...
View ArticleJohn Bolton: Boris Johnson ‘playing Trump like a fiddle’
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton claimed the British prime minister is playing his old boss “like a fiddle.” In an interview with Channel 4 News Thursday, Bolton also said...
View ArticleTrump admits it: He’s losing
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump knows he’s losing. The U.S. president has privately come to that grim realization in recent days, multiple people close to him told POLITICO, amid a mountain of bad polling...
View ArticleIs North Korea’s COVID-19 vaccine program a dangerous ruse?
North Korea recently surprised the world by announcing it is developing a COVID-19 vaccine, joining a high-stakes race to show off its scientific chops. But experts increasingly believe the famously...
View ArticleTrump administration weighs accusing China of ‘genocide’ over Uighurs
The United States is weighing formally labeling China’s brutal repression of ethnic Muslim minority Uighurs a “genocide,” two Trump administration officials said. Activists and lawmakers have been...
View ArticleTrump Northern Ireland envoy to visit in coming weeks
Mick Mulvaney, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former acting chief of staff, will soon make his first trip to the British Isles in his new role as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland, according...
View ArticleJohn Bolton: Trump could pull US out of NATO
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton thinks there is a “very real risk” of the U.S. withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if his old boss wins a second term. In...
View ArticleBiden’s decision: How hard to punch back at Putin’s hackers
U.S. President Joe Biden promised in December that he would “not stand idly by” after Russia’s latest massive cyberattack on the U.S. Well over 100 days later, his administration has yet to make it...
View ArticleTrump wanted out of Afghanistan. Now he wants to bomb it.
Donald Trump spent years arguing that America’s “endless wars” were draining the country of resources and lives. But in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, that’s...
View ArticleTiny Nicaragua is becoming a big problem for Joe Biden
On the sidelines of an international gathering in Costa Rica earlier this year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to make headway with the foreign minister of a government that is increasingly...
View ArticleEU proposes lifting pressure on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to revive nuclear...
BERLIN — Europe’s proposal to resuscitate Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers would blunt American sanctions against Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and pave the way for Tehran to avoid further...
View ArticleBiden condemns attack on Rushdie, pledges ‘solidarity’ with author’s ideals
President Joe Biden on Saturday condemned the frenzied attack on Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage that has left the author on a ventilator. “Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of...
View ArticleNo wonder the Brits voted Leave
John Bolton served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. Watching the United Kingdom’s ongoing...
View ArticleLicense to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder
License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder For rogue states, solving a problem by removing it often proves irresistible. By Matthew Karnitschnig Illustration by Joan Wong...
View ArticleTrump’s ‘24 game plan: Be the dove among the hawks
Donald Trump is settling on a simple foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy. Over the past week, Trump has assailed President Joe Biden’s...
View ArticleWhat another Trump presidency would mean for NATO
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” As a former United States ambassador to...
View Article‘Enough to make Reagan ill’: Trump’s NATO remarks under fire
Democrats and some Republicans were quick to condemn Donald Trump after the former president said Saturday night he would “encourage” Russia to attack the nation’s NATO allies who did not meet their...
View ArticlePutin kills off the handsome princes
The last images of Alexei Navalny alive show him behind bars. He is a bit gaunt. His hair is shorter,missing its old sheen. Yet his eyes are the same as ever: They light up. In the video shot on...
View Article10 ways a second Trump term could be more extreme than the first
An increasingly detailed picture of former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda is emerging — one that would make the near-daily shocks of his norm-shattering first White House tenure look...
View ArticleThe prospect of a second Trump presidency has the intelligence community on edge
Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of...
View ArticleBiden plans intel brief for Trump, despite his history with leaks
U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief Donald Trump on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified...
View ArticleTrump’s plan for NATO is emerging
Donald Trump has threatened to leave NATO so many times — or has appeared to, anyway — that for many of his critics, it’s a question of when, not whether, he’d ditch the 75-year-old alliance if he’s...
View ArticleNATO allies try to get inside Trump’s head while in Washington
Officials from NATO countries are enjoying an extra perk of this year’s summit in Washington: easier access to members of Donald Trump’s inner circle. They have fanned out around town to meet with...
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