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After ripping up Obama’s Iran playbook, Trump quickly pieces it back together
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump started with over-the-top, machismo rhetoric toward Iran. He ended by backing down so far that he sounded more like his predecessor. In a span of just 24 hours,...
View ArticleTrump administration blocking dozens of emails on Ukraine aid freeze
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department revealed in a midnight court filing that two dozen emails shielded from Congress detail U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from...
View ArticleTrump’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...
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Trump 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...
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Assange 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...
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Trump 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...
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US 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...
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What 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...
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The 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...
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Trump 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...
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Is 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...
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