Donald Trump Won't Move Embassy to Jerusalem, at Least for Now President Trump signed an order keeping the American Embassy in Tel Aviv rather than moving it to Jerusalem as he promised during last year’s campaign, aides said Thursday, disappointing many Israel supporters in hopes of preserving his chances of […]
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Blind Spots in Trump's Trade Tirade Against Germany The last time relations between the United States and Europe were this bad — in the spring of 2003, during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq — the administration of George W. Bush decided to “punish France, ignore Germany and forgive […]
Investigation Turns to Kushner's Motives in Meeting With a Putin Ally Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was looking for a direct line to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — a search that in mid-December found him in a room with a Russian banker whose financial institution […]
Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, spoke in December with Russia’s ambassador to the United States about establishing a secret communications channel between the Trump transition team and Moscow to discuss strategy in Syria and […]
European Visits by Trump and Obama Are a Study in Contrasts The contrast could not have been more stark. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany started Thursday in Berlin with the 44th president — the one she has called “dear Barack.” She spent the afternoon in Brussels with the 45th, Donald […]
With Gift and in Conversation, Vatican Presses Trump on Climate Change Pope Francis put climate change on the agenda of his first meeting with President Trump on Wednesday, and the subject is likely to come up again and again in the president’s encounters with other world leaders in the coming […]
$110 Billion Weapons Sale to Saudis Has Jared Kushner's Personal Touch $110 Billion Weapons Sale to Saudis Has Jared Kushner's Personal Touch:- On the afternoon of May 1, President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, welcomed a high-level delegation of Saudis to a gilded reception room next door to the White House […]
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump’s battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed shock. The disclosure that Mr. Trump divulged classified intelligence to Russian officials that […]
Bold, Unpredictable Foreign Policy Lifts Trump, but Has Risks President Trump turned in his chair at Mar-a-Lago to get a better look at China’s president, Xi Jinping — intent on detecting his first reaction to the news he had just dropped: American missiles were slamming into an airfield in northern […]
Airstrike in Syria Overshadows Meeting Between Trump and Xi Airstrike in Syria Overshadows Meeting Between Trump and Xi:- President Trump welcomed President Xi Jinping of China here for a first meeting on Friday that ended up being less about great-power collaboration than a chance for the Chinese leader to witness […]
