By Luc Cohen and David Lawder BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The United States sought to woo Europe and Japan with free trade deals on Saturday to gain leverage in an escalating tariff war with China but its overtures faced stiff resistance from France at a G20 finance ministers meeting dominated by trade tensions. U.S. Treasury…
The 412 pages released this Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the Trump Russia 2016 probe discredit Devin Nunes (R-CA) and the GOP memo, which claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele.
The FBI on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 U.S. election.
HAVANA (Reuters) – The draft of Cuba’s new constitution opens the path to same-sex marriage, a government official said on Saturday, which would make the country that once persecuted homosexuals an unlikely leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. In the early years of Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, many homosexuals were sent to correctional…
German industry groups warned on Sunday, ahead of a meeting between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. President Donald Trump, that tariffs the United States has recently imposed or threatened risk harming the U.S. itself.
(Reuters) – A woman whose nine family members were among the 17 people killed when a tourist duck boat capsized in a storm on a Missouri lake said on Saturday she is not sure if there is any way to recover from such a loss.
Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public on Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denied any wrongdoing a day after reports that his onetime attorney Michael Cohen had recorded them both discussing buying the rights to a story by a woman who said she had an affair with Trump.
New information gathered from the U.S. Secret Service under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) shows that Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are costing taxpayers by traveling the world on business trips. “Taxpayers spent nearly $250,000 on hotels, airfare and other costs for Secret Service…
Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer running in a competitive congressional race in Virginia, is using the outcry over President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to press what she and other Democrats believe will be a powerful campaign theme.
In an editorial entitled  The Trade Casualties Mount,†the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal harshly criticized the trade policies of President Donald Trump and his trade representative Peter Navarro. According to the Journal, the Trump administration’s trade policies are already having a very negative effect on U.S. manufacturers as well as stifling…
In a Saturday tweet, Trump proclaimed himself your, and by extension, America’s favorite president while throwing his ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, under the bus.
Republican Senate candidate Corey Stewart was laughed off stage during his debate with Sen. Tim Kaine when he claimed that Trump is standing up to Russia.
This is a dangerous moment for the country, and the American people need to wake up and stay engaged, particularly as the midterms approach.
Trump’s decision to throw Cohen under the bus and dedicate all of his loyalty to Russian president Vladimir Putin will end up having disastrous consequences
Trump’s three-pronged meltdown on Saturday – trashing the government, accusing Cohen of a crime and insisting that “your favorite President did nothing wrong!” – is proof that he’s terrified.
In April the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a novel lawsuit against WikiLeaks alleging they were part of a global conspiracy to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It is widely believed that by publishing hacked emails from the DNC and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign WikiLeaks hurt Clinton and helped Trump become president. The hacked…
The U.S. Treasury is open to removing Russian aluminum producer Rusal from a U.S. sanctions list, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, adding the objective was “not to put Rusal out of business.”
Republican leaders in Congress sent a message to the White House on Friday to disclose what was discussed in the private meeting between the president and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The concern is that Putin is using Trump to try to tear apart the NATO alliance. All week Russian news services and officials have been…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was slow and ineffective in its response to the 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and needs to improve its communications with state and local regulators when citizen complaints arise, its internal watchdog said on Thursday.
