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President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will do "something" on Greenland, "whether they like it or not." Watch Trump's remarks in the video player above. He made the comments during a meeting with oil executives at the White House. WATCH: Trump meets with oil executives to ...
... prison. But the move underscored Trump's continued efforts to re-cast the 2020 election as stolen from him, though courts around the country and Trump's own attorney general at the time found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. WATCH: Trump's attempt to pardon ...
... timed to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.The Trump administration is currently trying to finalize a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, now nearly four years old, with special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, as the U.S. president's chief negotiators.
... Both moves reflect the administration's determination to make good on its effort to control the next steps in Venezuela through its vast oil resources. Trump pledged after the capture of Maduro that the U.S. will "run" the country. Trump on Thursday night said that Machado may be visiting ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump's administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families. The states — California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois ...
... markets. Large U.S. oil companies have so far largely refrained from affirming investments in Venezuela as contracts and guarantees need to be in place. Trump has suggested that the U.S. would help to backstop any investments. Venezuela’s oil production has slumped below one million barrels a day ...
Venezuelans digesting news of the United States’ brazen capture of former President Nicolás Maduro are hearing grandiose promises of future economic prowess even as they live through the crippling economic realities of today.
... the nature of the bilateral relationship is more generally. Nick Schifrin: Kevin Whitaker was ambassador to Colombia from 2014 until 2019 under Presidents Obama and Trump. Kevin Whitaker: One of the things that characterizes the Trump administration, especially Trump 2.0 now, is that policy formulation resides with the president ...
... that as a major problem. Amna Nawaz: There's another unusual vote I want to ask you about today, the House voting to uphold President Trump's first vetoes of his second term, even though those were bills that had passed unanimously. Tell us what we need to understand about ...
Congress has a lengthy list of priorities, but the week has been dominated by the Trump administration's operation in Venezuela and what to do next. Geoff Bennett spoke with Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic perspective.
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