Donald Trump Jr. told a business forum in Budapest that Hungary and the region should pick the U.S. over China as its economic partner, according to the Portfolio news website.

Trump Jr., who’s holding a roadshow headlined “Trump Business Vision 2025,” said China posed a bigger threat than Russia to the region, according to the business ...Read more

President Donald Trump called for “free of charge” passage of American ships through the Panama and Suez canals, renewing his focus of expanding U.S. influence over critical commercial and naval waterways.

While Trump began pushing for an exit of Chinese port operators around the Panama Canal soon after returning to the White House in ...Read more

Mark Carney said he expects U.S. President Donald Trump will try to extract “major concessions” from Canada in negotiations, and that he takes seriously the president’s stated desire to turn the country into a U.S. state.

“Take what the president says literally. I take it literally. I always have,” the Canadian prime minister told ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran reported signs of progress in talks on a deal over Iran’s nuclear program after what the Iranian foreign minister described as increasingly detailed discussions.

A senior U.S. administration official said the third round of talks since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House was positive and productive, and the ...Read more

In his 10 years as a presidential contender Donald Trump has always benefited politically by attacking immigrants, winning support for his promises of a hardline border crackdown. Yet now that’s he’s actually doing it — and in such a cruel fashion — the president is, for the first time, getting poor marks from voters, with a YouGov poll ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Dallas Reding was never one to protest. But after hearing about the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others to notorious prisons abroad, he scrawled “No Foreign Gulags” on some cardboard and then taped the sign to a mop handle.

And there he was last Saturday, hoisting his makeshift placard...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would not sign legislation that calls for cuts to Social Security or federal health coverage for older and low-income Americans.

“If it cuts it, I would not approve,” the president said in an interview with TIME magazine published Friday, where he was repeatedly asked about cuts to Medicare, ...Read more

The Trump administration accused the University of California, Berkeley of failing to disclose millions of dollars in foreign funding on Friday, touting muscular new enforcement of an obscure federal rule amid ongoing efforts to bridle America’s top research institutions.

The University of California flagship is the second top school to come ...Read more

A group of 19 states sued to block the Trump administration from freezing federal funds for states that refuse to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in K-12 public schools, intensifying a legal battle over billions of dollars in assistance.

The lawsuit filed Friday in Boston federal court follows a warning this month from the U....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested another delay to his higher so-called “reciprocal” tariffs was unlikely, raising pressure on nations to negotiate trade deals with his administration.

Asked about the possibility of granting another 90-day pause, Trump cast that scenario as “unlikely,” while speaking to reporters aboard ...Read more

Bill Maher has opened up about Larry David’s satirical essay comparing his dinner with Donald Trump to breaking bread with Adolf Hitler.

The “Real Time” host, a vocal critic of the MAGA leader in the past, gave a glowing account of attending a March 31 dinner with the president alongside high profile supporters like Kid Rock.

He ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang.

Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and last week, blocked by the Supreme Court — if the detained men are not given a hearing to argue they are not gang members.

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WASHINGTON — As a couple of key court cases against President Donald Trump's executive actions intensify, questions of how and whether the White House will follow judges' orders are mounting.

Already, some judges have issued orders reprimanding the Trump administration and demanding action. But who has the authority to enforce such orders?

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NEW YORK — Academy Award winner George Clooney is no Donald Trump fan, but he doesn’t seem too worried about the Queens native’s presidency.

“It’s funny because he’s just a New York beast,” Clooney said during a Variety “Actors on Actors” interview with fellow Broadway star Patti LuPone. “We’ve all known him for 30 years, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The role of secretary of state inevitably rests on the diplomatic skillset of being a strategic communicator and delicate negotiator.

Marco Rubio’s added another, less expected proficiency to his tenure at the State Department: student hunter.

In his three months as the country’s top diplomat, Rubio has wielded a seldom-used...Read more

I had been falling a lot. It was almost as if my small feet were suddenly too big. Then my symptoms took a darker turn.

“I can’t see!” I gasped one frigid January morning in 1997. Beside me, my boyfriend asked, “What do you mean you can’t see?”

I couldn’t catch enough breath to speak normally. My left eye hurt, and I could only ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr is seeking to move on to the upper chamber of Congress.

But what of Kentucky’s five other members of the U.S. House of Representatives?

The question of their futures, some of them seen as rising stars in their parties, has been buzzing since U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell announced in February he would not ...Read more

After President Donald Trump brought global economics to the brink of meltdown with his erratic unilateral tariff decrees, Tyler Page and Maggie Haberman reported in the New York Times that Trump told Republicans “I know what the hell I’m doing!” and, after reversing himself, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said he was acting “...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two abortion-rights bills Thursday that will permit the use of public funding to cover the procedure and provide more protection for doctors and patients from out-of-state interference.

“Colorado is making sure that we are completely protecting the right to choose,” Polis said before signing the ...Read more