U.S. says to expand program sending asylum seekers to Mexico
Mexico has agreed to take more migrants seeking asylum in the United States while they await adjudication of their cases, according to details of an agreement reached late on Friday that led President Donald Trump to call off threatened tariffs.
Trump calls off tariffs on Mexico after deal on migration
The United States and Mexico reached a deal on Friday to avert a tariff war, with Mexico pledging to take “strong measures” to contain the migration of mostly Central Americans crossing the southern U.S. border, a surge in recent months that has overwh…
U.S.-Mexico migration deal boosts USMCA approval drive-Mexico official
The deal over migration struck on Friday between Mexico and the United States has given a boost to the process of ratifying a new North American trade deal known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a senior Mexican official said.
Mexico national guard to deploy on southern border from Monday: minister
Mexico’s National Guard will begin deploying on Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala from Monday to contain the flow of migrants headed to the United States, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday.
Trump expected to name Philipson as top economic adviser: Politico
President Donald Trump is expected to name Tomas Philipson, a former University of Chicago professor and health economics expert, as the next chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to replace outgoing Kevin Hassett, Politico reported on Friday.
Under pressure, Biden drifts leftward on abortion, climate change
The Joe Biden Express to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination went a bit off track this week.
Trump criticizes NASA moon mission after promoting it earlier
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday criticized NASA for aiming to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024 and urged the space agency to focus instead on “much bigger” initiatives like going to Mars, undercutting his previous support for the lunar ini…
House panel weighs holding Trump Cabinet members in contempt over census
The U.S. House Oversight Committee plans to vote next week on holding Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for stonewalling a probe into an alleged scheme to politicize the 2020 U.S. Census.
Democrats to pour into Iowa for biggest event yet in 2020 White House race
Nineteen Democratic presidential candidates will swarm Iowa this weekend for the biggest political gathering of the 2020 election cycle so far, as the White House race picks up steam ahead of debates and a key fundraising deadline at the end of the mon…
Biden reverses position on federal funding for abortion
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Thursday he no longer supported a ban on the use of federal funds for most abortions, reversing course after sharp criticism from abortion-rights proponents.
