Jan 09 Trump, the 'America First' candidate, embraces new imperialist agenda By Jill Colvin, Rob Gillies, Associated Press Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform. But since winning a second term, the president-elect has been embracing a new imperialist agenda. Continue reading
Jan 09 WATCH: All 5 living former presidents gather to pay tribute to Carter By Hannah Grabenstein President-elect Trump did not attend former President George H. W. Bush’s funeral in 2018, though all the other living presidents at the time, including Carter, did attend. Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 4:56 Biden administration announces its final aid package to Ukraine before Trump takes office By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn With less than two weeks left in office, the Biden administration is announcing its final shipment of weapons for Ukraine. The White House believes nearly all of this $500 million worth of weapons will arrive before the inauguration of Donald… Continue watching
Jan 08 WATCH: Donald and Melania Trump visit Jimmy Carter's casket at U.S. Capitol By Bill Barrow, Kevin Freking, Farnoush Amiri, Rick Gentilo, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump, who has alternated among praising, criticizing and even mocking Jimmy Carter, came Wednesday to the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects as the 39th president lay in state ahead of his funeral Thursday in the nation's capital. Continue reading
Jan 08 Mexico's President Sheinbaum gives sarcastic retort to Trump's 'Gulf of America' comment By Megan Janetsky, Associated Press Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana” because an 1814 founding document that preceded Mexico's constitution referred to it that way. Continue reading
Jan 08 Biden casts doubt on if he'd have the fitness to serve another four years By Darlene Superville, Associated Press President Joe Biden is casting doubt on his fitness to serve another four years in a new interview days before he leaves office after one term. Continue reading
Jan 08 Justice Department says it will release part of special counsel Jack Smith's Trump report By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press The revelation was made in a filing Wednesday to a federal appeals court that was considering a defense request to block the release of the two-volume report while charges remain pending against two Trump co-defendants in a Florida case. Continue reading
Jan 08 Trump asks the Supreme Court to block Friday's sentencing in his New York hush money case By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by the judge who presided over Trump's trial and conviction in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch 4:30 Trump expresses desire to expand U.S. territory, use economic force to pressure Canada By Laura Barrón-López, Shrai Popat, Matt Loffman With Donald Trump set to enter the Oval Office in just two weeks, the president-elect expressed a desire to expand American territory through the use of military and economic force, if necessary. Trump also proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico… Continue watching
Jan 07 Generative AI used to help plan Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas, police say By Associated Press The updates on Tuesday comes nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself just before the truck blew up outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Continue reading