China is calling for restraint in the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, one day after North Korea complained the United States is pushing the region closer to nuclear war. Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a phone call Wednesday with Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte, urged all parties in the standoff to use restraint […]
The Trump administration has declined to comment on a report that two White House officials reportedly provided the leader of a congressional investigation with intelligence that showed members of the Trump presidential transition team were caught up in incidental foreign surveillance by U.S. spy agencies. The New York Times newspaper reports the White House “sources” […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a rallying cry against the House Freedom Caucus, a powerful group of staunchly conservative Republican lawmakers who are largely responsible for the collapse of efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care law. In a Twitter post on Thursday, Trump called on Republicans to defeat caucus members and Democrats. […]
The Trump administration has given a federal permit to the Keystone XL pipeline project after former President Barack Obama rejected it just two years ago. On Friday morning, the U.S. State Department announced the issuance of the permit to TransCanada to build the pipeline, saying that it would “serve the national interest” to do so. […]