• Stocks fall as Trump says trade deal with China can wait

    Stocks fall as Trump says trade deal with China can wait

    Dec 03, 2019 10:01 PM EST

    ... after a strong November rally. Trump said he has "no deadline" for a deal and didn't mind waiting until after the 2020 election to make one. Investors had been hoping for a deal this year, or at least enough progress to stave off new U.S. tariffs on Chinese ...

  • News Wrap: China bars U.S. military from Hong Kong

    News Wrap: China bars U.S. military from Hong Kong

    Dec 02, 2019 11:50 PM EST

    ... Argentina. In a tweet, he accused the two nations of manipulating their currencies to undercut U.S. farm products. The president had exempted Brazil and Argentina from the tariffs in March of 2018. And on Wall Street, December got off to a rough start amid new worries about trade tensions ...

  • Pope denounces ‘evil’ of nukes as he fulfills Japan dream

    Pope denounces ‘evil’ of nukes as he fulfills Japan dream

    Nov 23, 2019 04:27 PM EST

    ... him and his message. That’s what I wish he could do on this visit.” Francis told the bishops how as a young Jesuit in Argentina, he had longed to be a missionary in Japan, following in the footsteps of St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit who first brought Christianity to ...

  • Death toll rises to 15 from Chilean protest clashes

    Death toll rises to 15 from Chilean protest clashes

    Oct 22, 2019 07:49 PM EST

    ... no inflation these days, that the economy is controlled, etc., etc.," Lagos said. "And all those arguments mean nothing to the people who can't make it to the end of the month." José Tomás López, a cook, said he was protesting "because I've seen how my other lives ...

  • China to lift punitive tariffs on US soybeans, pork

    China to lift punitive tariffs on US soybeans, pork

    Sep 13, 2019 01:48 PM EST

    ... were due to meet next week or the following week to prepare.By delaying his tariff hike, Trump allowed for the possibility the talks might make enough progress to avert the increase indefinitely. However, economists say a final agreement is unlikely this year. Tariff hikes by both sides on billions ...

  • GOP likely to create hurdles for Trump primary challengers

    GOP likely to create hurdles for Trump primary challengers

    Aug 27, 2019 01:20 PM EST

    ... surrounded by Trump supporters waving signs and shouting, "Go take a hike!" — a reference to his 2009 disappearance when he was visiting his mistress in Argentina but told staffers he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. In September, Nevada's Republican Party will consider bypassing its 2020 presidential nominating caucuses and ...

  • Ivanka Trump to promote women's initiative in South America

    Ivanka Trump to promote women's initiative in South America

    Aug 08, 2019 04:02 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump will call attention to issues that make it difficult for women in developing countries to prosper financially when she travels to South America in September. Aides to President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser say she plans to visit Paraguay and Argentina to promote her Women's ...

  • Hal Prince, towering Broadway director and producer, dead at 91

    Hal Prince, towering Broadway director and producer, dead at 91

    Jul 31, 2019 04:25 PM EST

    ... his more notable achievements: "On the Twentieth Century" (1978) and two of Lloyd Webber's biggest hits, "Evita" (1979), starring Patti LuPone as the charismatic Argentinian, and "The Phantom of the Opera," in London (1986), New York (1988) and around the world. He was a champion of imagination in the ...

  • Former Rep. Mark Sanford mulls 2020 challenge to Trump

    Former Rep. Mark Sanford mulls 2020 challenge to Trump

    Jul 17, 2019 01:42 PM EST

    ... the polls closed last year. He tweeted that Sanford "has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign" and that "He is better off in Argentina" — a reference to Sanford's secret 2009 rendezvous to South America for an extramarital affair while his in-the-dark gubernatorial staff told reporters ...

  • WATCH: Total solar eclipse darkens skies across South America

    WATCH: Total solar eclipse darkens skies across South America

    Jul 02, 2019 04:50 PM EST

    ... Argentina, the only places that the total eclipse will be seen aside from an uninhabited island out in the ocean. The eclipse is expected to make its first landfall in Chile at 3:22 p.m. (1922 GMT) in La Serena, a city of some 200,000 people where the ...