The AP obtained tens of thousands of pages of classified and internal documents that show how U.S. companies designed and marketed systems that became the foundation for China’s digital cage. (AP Video/Serginho Roosblad, Marshall Ritzel) The AP obtained tens of thousands of pages of classified and internal documents that show how U.S. companies designed and…
In the late 1980s, attending a journalism conference near Lake Calhoun, I walked to a bench next to the path around the lake. “Is anyone sitting here?” a deep and distinctive voice asked. “No, have a seat,” I said. “I’m Fritz,” he said, holding out his hand. He needed no introduction. Walter Mondale, the former…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the same time that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could make it easier for the president to fire him. The developments are occurring against a backdrop of wider turmoil in the economy and financial markets,…
Thirty-five is the minimum age requirement for the U.S. presidency, but there’s no upward limit. The two last presidential elections, which brought Joe Biden, now 82, and Donald Trump, at 78, to the White House, are proof of this political reality. The Founding Fathers excluded a maximum age limit from the Constitution, giving those in their…
President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Beijing said on Thursday that the US leader’s strategy for China would involve “some pain” and claimed that allies must do more to counter the Asian country. Speaking in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, David Perdue, a former Republican senator representing Georgia, also affirmed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns. This weekend, he posted an article…
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. Panama is weighing whether to cancel its contract with the Hong Kong-based company that operates ports near the Panama Canal, according to people with knowledge of the situation, a potential concession to defuse President Donald Trump’s threats about countering China’s influence around…
MANKATO — Debby Johnson was Debby Dundas and a high school senior when presidential nominee Jimmy Carter visited Mankato in the fall of 1976. Now a retired Winnebago resident, Johnson then played baritone in the Mankato East High School marching band when Carter and vice presidential nominee Walter Mondale flew into the Mankato airport and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak. The military honor guards, a procession down Pennsylvania…
FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (Carolyn Kaster, Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After the passing of the nation’s 39th president, Jimmy Carter, News4JAX wants to hear your memories of…