WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Sunday announced stiff new tariffs on imports from Colombia and visa restrictions in retaliation to Colombian President Gustavo Petro denying the entry of U.S. military flights deporting Colombian migrants. Shortly after Trump’s threat, Petro said he would provide a presidential plane for the “dignified return” of Columbia migrants who…
WASHINGTON ― Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack was commuted this week, showed up at President Donald Trump‘s Saturday rally in Las Vegas. Rhodes, released from prison Tuesday, was among dozens of Trump supporters who stood behind the…
President Donald Trump had tough words for both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview that aired Thursday, threating to ratchet up financial pressure on Russia while calling Zelenskyy “no angel.” Trump promised on the campaign trail to quickly ended the war in Ukraine and is trying to force the…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump issued Russian President Vladimir Putin an ultimatum on Wednesday – make a deal with me to end the Ukraine war or pay a hefty economic price. Trump said he’d put all manner of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and vaguely threatened…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he’s looking at slapping an additional 10% tariff on China, as he upped the ante on the U.S. competitor and pushed Beijing to crack down on the production and distribution of fentanyl. On his first full day in office, Trump said he was also eying Feb. 1 for the…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he’ll put steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada – unless the U.S. neighbors toughen security at their borders. Trump said during an impromptu question and answer session with reporters that he was considering levying a blanket duty of 25% on Feb. 1 on both nations over illegal migration and…
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is going after other members of the president-elect’s orbit as Trump returns to Washington to take his second oath of office. The world’s three richest men, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, are planning to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Bannon, in an appearance on ABC’s “This…
WASHINGTON − President-elect Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order Monday afternoon, hours into his second term, temporarily halting a ban on the popular video app TikTok. The Supreme Court Friday upheld a law by Congress requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest or shutter operations in the U.S. As of Saturday evening,…
WASHINGTON − An outgoing Biden administration official warned against a looming Cold War-style nuclear arms race in a farewell speech. Jill Hruby, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the U.S. cannot build more nuclear weapons than Russia and China (and its “gigantic economy”) in the decades to come, despite an ongoing $1.7 trillion…
In his inaugural address four years ago, President Joe Biden portrayed former President Donald Trump’s tumultuous tenure as an aberration and his own election as a return to political norms. “Much to repair. Much to restore. Much to heal,” Biden had declared in 2021, sun splashing on his face as he stood on the West…