Massachusetts ex-governor marks first to challenge Trump for 2020: reports
Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, said he will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2020, saying the country was in “grave peril,” media outlets reported on Friday.
Pompeo says to discuss security, Russia, China presence in Iceland visit
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in NATO ally Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Friday and said he would be discussing security relations as well as China and Russia’s growing presence in the Arctic.
Maduro understands Venezuelans are rejecting him: Pompeo
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s invitation to a U.S. envoy for talks in Caracas “demonstrates his increasing understanding that the Venezuelan people are rejecting him and his model of governance…
Trump set to declare border emergency, sign shutdown-averting bill
U.S. President Donald Trump was poised on Friday to declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that Democrats vowed to challenge as an unconstitutional attempt to fund his proposed border wall without approval from Congress.
House passes border security bill, sends to Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bipartisan border security bill aimed at averting a government shutdown and sent it to President Donald Trump, including new barriers for part of the U.S.-Mexico border but not the $5.7 billion h…
House advances border security funds toward final passage
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved the rules for debating a bill to avert another partial federal government shutdown by funding several agencies but denying President Donald Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall on the U….
U.S. lawmakers want more information on Saudi journalist’s death
Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. Senate asked the Trump administration on Thursday to tell them more about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate last year, days after a missed deadline for a detailed report on his d…
Explainer: What’s at stake in U.S.-China trade talks
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are in Beijing this week as Chinese and American negotiators try to hammer out a trade deal to ease a trade war and avert an increase in U.S. tariffs on Chinese good…
U.S. trade envoys to meet China’s Xi, no decision on deadline extension
The Trump administration’s top two negotiators in trade talks with China will meet on Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but there has been no decision to extend a March 1 U.S. deadline for a deal, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said …
Trump puts on a few pounds, enters obese range: medical report
U.S. President Donald Trump has gained weight over the past year and is now in the obese range, although he remains in “very good health overall,” according to results of an annual presidential physical examination conducted last week.
