Jul 01 WATCH: Trump says tanks will be part of 4th of July in Washington By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Trump plans to deliver a speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday. The president had wanted a parade of military tanks and other equipment in Washington after witnessing a similar parade in Paris in 2017. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch 8:21 Tamara Keith and Carrie Budoff Brown on Trump targeting Kamala Harris NPR’s Tamara Keith and Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown join Yamiche Alcindor to discuss the latest political news, including post-debate poll numbers for 2020 Democrats, whether former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead will be “durable,” why racist attacks on Sen. Kamala… Continue watching
Jul 01 Trump lashes out at N.Y. governor and attorney general over business probes By Associated Press In four tweets Monday, Trump accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Letitia James of "harassing all of my New York businesses in search of anything at all they can find to make me look as bad as possible."… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 4:48 Trump-Kim meeting was carefully constructed reality TV President Trump took a history-making step onto North Korean territory on Sunday and announced talks to end the country’s nuclear program will resume. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to cross the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South, but… Continue watching
Jun 30 Kim-Trump border meeting: History or just a photo-op? By Foster Clug, Associated Press Whatever you might think of what happened, history will likely judge it on a single point: Will it help address the North’s headlong pursuit of a fully functioning arsenal of nuclear weapons that can strike anywhere in the U.S.?… Continue reading
Jun 30 Wide grins and historic handshake for Trump, Kim at DMZ By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program. Trump, pressing his bid… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 3:21 At G-20, U.S. and China reach a ceasefire in trade war The leaders of the two biggest economies in the world met in Osaka, Japan at the G20 summit to discuss the on-going trade war between them. And while no resolution has been reached, the U.S. is holding off on further… Continue watching
Jun 29 DMZ diplomacy? Trump outreach to Kim for border rendezvous By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President Trump issued a Twitter invitation Saturday to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to meet for a handshake at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the North and South, and expressed a willingness to cross the border for what would be… Continue reading
Jun 29 Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B to build border wall By Associated Press A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Continue reading
Jun 29 Truce in U.S.-China trade war as 2 rivals seek breakthrough By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping agreed to a cease-fire Saturday in their nations' yearlong trade war, averting for now an escalation feared by financial markets, businesses and farmers. Continue reading