Donald Trump
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Trump Jr.'s Russia emails could trigger probe under election law
EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who had incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton that could help…
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Trump seen replacing Yellen at Fed with NEC's Cohn: Politico
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump is increasingly unlikely to nominate Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen next year for a second term, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn is…
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Amid divisions with Macron, Trump to travel to Paris to discuss Syria, terrorism
EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to Paris on Wednesday to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron where the two leaders will seek to work together on Syria and countering…
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Russia Sanctions Bill Stalled in House Amid Trump Objections
EghtesadOnline: Legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia is stalled in the House amid a partisan battle over whether all lawmakers should have the authority to start a process to block a…
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China says 'China responsibility theory' on North Korea has to stop
EghtesadOnline: China hit back on Tuesday in unusually strong terms at repeated calls from the United States to put more pressure on North Korea, urging a halt to what it called the "China responsibil…
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Trump to nominate Quarles to be Fed's top banking regulator
EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump plans to nominate former Treasury official Randal Quarles to be the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator, the White House said on Monday.
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The U.S. president says it can be done "very, very quickly." But economists say, not so fast.
Post-Brexit U.K. Trade Deal with Trump Is Easier Said Than Done
EghtesadOnline: The transatlantic trade deal U.S. President Donald Trump is offering U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will ultimately prove easy to promise and hard to deliver.
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Trump Administration Blocks ‘Startup Visas’ That Tech Leaders Backed
EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration said it plans to rescind an Obama-era program that would allow foreign entrepreneurs who launch startup companies in the U.S. to live in the country,…
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Trump Says He Wants to Work ‘Constructively’ With Russia
EghtesadOnline: Home from the Group of 20 meeting in Germany, President Donald Trump tweeted that he discussed creating a cyber security unit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin -- drawing…
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The World's Learning How to Handle Donald Trump, but It's Tricky
EghtesadOnline: Five months into Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency, the rest of the world is getting the hang of how to deal with him.
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Putin says Trump was 'satisfied' with his election meddling denials
EghtesadOnline: President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he thought his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump had been satisfied with his assertions that Russia had not meddled in the U.S. presidential…
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U.S. isolated on climate at summit of world leaders
EghtesadOnline: Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and…
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Trump and Xi Skirt North Korea Divide in 'Excellent' Meeting
EghtesadOnline: The heads of the world’s two largest economies brushed over differences on North Korea and trade as they met in person for the second time.
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This Is What Putin Wants From His Syria Deal With Trump
EghtesadOnline: Russia is hoping that the “breakthrough” Syrian ceasefire deal it brokered this week will align the U.S. with President Vladimir Putin’s plans for the war-torn country.
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G-20 Outcome Shows Trump's America Is Going Its Own Way
EghtesadOnline: World leaders forged a fragile compromise at a summit in Germany that failed to conceal the reality that Donald Trump’s America is increasingly going its own way.
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Jobs, Climate and Steel Highlight Trump’s Effect on the G-20
EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s debut Group of 20 summit yielded a concluding statement covered with the U.S. president’s fingerprints. While the meeting was marred by clashes and vandalism in…
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Trump's G-20 Ends With Few Prizes, Little Consensus on His Goals
EghtesadOnline: Ahead of his first G-20 summit, Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on his concerns.
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Merkel calls for G20 compromise as crunch climate talks start
EghtesadOnline: German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed fellow Group of 20 leaders to compromise at the start of talks on climate and trade that have pitted U.S. President Donald Trump against…
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Lavrov: Putin told Trump that Russia did not meddle in U.S. vote
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that Moscow had not meddled in the U.S. elections, and Trump accepted it, Russian Foreign Minister…
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Trump Raises Election Meddling in First Meeting With Putin
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump led off his first meeting with Vladimir Putin by presenting the Russian president with concerns that his government interfered with the 2016 U.S. election,…
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Trump Pushing America First Prompts G-20 Deadlock on Free Trade
EghtesadOnline: World leaders meeting in Hamburg ran into a major rift over global economic policy as President Donald Trump held firm to his America First doctrine at the expense of unity.
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Trump Emerges From Putin Meeting With Cease-Fire and Little Else
EghtesadOnline: In Russia, some call Donald Trump a “marketolog” -- a master at the science of marketing.
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EU, Japan seal free trade in signal to Trump
EghtesadOnline: Japan and the European Union agreed a free trade pact on Thursday to create the world's biggest open economic area and signal resistance to what they see as U.S. President Donald…
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Trump Cites Russian Election Meddling But Blames Others Too
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 election but maintained that the U.S. may never know for sure, likening the matter to intelligence that incorrectly…
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Trump Weighs ‘Pretty Severe Things’ for North Korea Over Launch
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump said he is contemplating some "pretty severe things" to retaliate against North Korea after it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile this week…
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Tillerson Says Trump, Putin to Seek Common Ground Over Syria
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump will raise the possibility of U.S. and Russian cooperation on easing the Syria conflict when he meets his Russian counterpart in Hamburg, Secretary of State…
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China Tries New Tactic as It Braces for Trump Meeting: Flattery
EghtesadOnline: China is trying a new tactic ahead of a potentially difficult meeting with President Donald Trump: flattery.
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European Companies Flocking Into Tehran Widen Divide With Trump
EghtesadOnline: Iran made progress this week in preserving its new-found place in the global economy.
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Pressure builds on Trump at home over pledge for closer Moscow ties
EghtesadOnline: During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "strong leader" with whom he would like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations.
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Trump-Putin Talks Raise Anxiety Ex-Spymaster Will Get Upper Hand
EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s encounter with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is raising concerns among veteran American diplomats and analysts about a mismatch between a U.S. president new to…