COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he could punish countries with tariffs if they do not support U.S. control of Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan congressional delegation sought to ease tensions in the Danish capital. Trump has insisted for months that the US should control Greenland, a … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of the health care plan he wants Congress to pass, as Republicans face mounting pressure to address rising health care costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts so they can … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a year before a U.S. military operation ousted Nicolás Maduro, a top adviser to President Donald Trump has alleged that the Venezuelan leader sent gang members to the United States. “If you are the dictator of a poor country with a high crime rate, wouldn’t you send your criminals to … Read more
Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday as part of the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, despite lawmakers threatening to impeach them. “You’ll say it’s not our decision to make. But we made it. Now you have to make yours,” the Clintons wrote in an apparent challenge to Republican Speaker … Read more
The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as Donald Trump’s White House steps up its campaign against central bank independence. In a video posted on Sunday, a usually reticent Powell took the extraordinary step of calling off the probe as punishment for failing to set interest … Read more
The White House is talking loudly about Greenland. But volume should not be confused with madness. This is not a sudden fall into imperial fantasy – it is power politics, simple and unsentimental, dressed in modern language but driven by ancient truths. Geography still rules destiny. Distance can still protect or endanger nations. The ice … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Republicans have “so many good nuggets” to campaign on this year as he tries to maintain his slim edge in the House. But the president’s nearly 90-minute address to House Republicans had little in the way of a new policy agenda or a new cohesive message … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more space at the White House for entertaining, the executive residence’s longest-serving top adviser says, lending support to Trump’s rationale for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as the White House Chief of Staff to Presidents Ronald … Read more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is making an emergency request to demolish more than a dozen historic buildings in Washington, DC, citing a “risk to life and property” that she says puts federal agents at risk. The proposal, first reported by The Washington Postwould destroy 17 buildings from St. Elizabeths West Campus, drawing outrage and … Read more
By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tenn., decided a few years ago that she wanted to buy a home, she started poring over her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found. Her student debt had been counted twice, making it … Read more