LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ contest against the Detroit Lions on Sunday. There were boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half, standing in…
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is drawing a volatile mix of blowback and praise for arguing that a Canadian government advertisement playing in U.S. markets misrepresented the 40th president’s words to blast President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. It is not clear how the California-based Reagan Foundation decided to enter the fray over the…
Gold crossed the $4,000-per-ounce line this week; with nearly three months to go, the price is up 51% this year — the biggest jump since it soared 126% in 1979, deep in the depths of Jimmy Carter’s stagflation, gas lines and foreign-policy disasters. In other words, gold spikes historically indicate investor panic; the metal’s seen…
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…