The Trump administration has moved to rewrite rules designed to prevent disasters at thousands of chemical facilities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency filed a motion in federal court on Thursday pulling back the safety regulations, introduced last year under former president Joe Biden. The rules, which took effect in May, require sites that…
The Trump administration’s decision to suspend the delivery of all military assistance to Ukraine left Ukrainians and Europeans figuring out on Tuesday how to fend for themselves. The decision — which potentially affects at least $9 billion in arms, ammunition, and air defense systems in the pipeline and on order, according to new estimates —…
President Trump’s intense interest in Ukraine’s minerals seemed to come from out of the blue. He dispatched his Treasury secretary to Kyiv this month to negotiate with Ukraine’s leader, then began ratcheting up the pressure publicly in what appeared to critics like a Mafia don’s extortion scheme. “I want security of the rare earth,” he…
The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, according to U.S. officials. The covert drone program, which has not been previously disclosed, began under the Biden administration, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the…
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed his predecessor Joe Biden for last month’s unexpected acceleration in consumer inflation, as he looked to deflect a moment of potential political peril early in his second term. The consumer price index (CPI) edged up to 3.0 per cent in January from a year ago, the US Labour…
Marc Fogel had traveled readily to and from Russia many times before his fateful last return to the country in August 2021. He had taught history for almost a decade, mostly to the children of diplomats, at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. But on entering Russia ahead of what he had decided would be his…
In less than three weeks, President Trump has thrown the U.S. clean energy industry into chaos, with much of the economic damage hitting Republican states and districts. In a quest to eliminate any funding linked to climate change, the Trump administration has frozen federal grants for everything from battery factories to electric school buses and…
The State Department has given Congress formal notification that it plans to move forward with sales of more than $8 billion in weapons to Israel, bypassing an informal review process that was still ongoing in one House committee. The move took place just two days after President Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of…
As he sat next to President Trump on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had a grin on his face that he rarely had during the last administration. And why not? He got most everything he came to Washington for. Put aside the president’s far-fetched notion of a U.S. takeover of Gaza. Mr. Trump…