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... think a lot of them tell me, Don, it's better to talk privately with the White House. Of course, I don't have President Trump on my speed dial. I have a different view. I mean, I had someone tell me yesterday, I respect him: "Don, if you were ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson has invited President Donald Trump to give the first State of the Union address of his second term on Feb. 24. The invitation sent on Wednesday notes that the nation is marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. The invitation touted the work of Trump ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing "troubled and dangerous times." Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him out of ...
... Wind project under construction in Massachusetts, Revolution Wind in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind in Virginia. WATCH: Economic fallout mounts as Trump halts near-finished wind power project Dominion Energy Virginia, which is developing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, was the first to sue. It's asking ...
... has separately used a federal procedure to outsource much of her agency's work to other departments, using interagency agreements typically reserved for smaller tasks. Trump has promised to close the Education Department, saying it had become overrun by liberal thinking. Only Congress has the power to eliminate the agency ...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday seemed to walk back Trump's assertion that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela. In interviews, Rubio insisted that Washington will use control of Venezuela’s oil industry to force policy changes, and called its current government illegitimate. The country is ...
The new recommendations drew praise from some prominent nutrition experts.
Trump in remarks before a House Republican retreat in Washington grumbled that Democrats were not giving him credit for a successful military operation, even though there was bipartisan agreement that Maduro was not the rightful president of Venezuela. In 2020, Maduro was indicted in the United States, accused in a ...
... of the charter of the United Nations. Nick Schifrin: For 80 years, inviolability of borders has defined the post-World War II order. But the Trump administration now suggests that might makes right. Stephen Miller: We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength ...
President Trump says the U.S. government could subsidize any effort by American companies to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure. He has made no secret that a major goal of this weekend’s operation was to pry open Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Francisco Manaldi, professor and director of the Latin American Energy Program...
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