WHITE HOUSE — China has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s charges China and Russia are manipulating the value of their currencies. Monday, Trump tweeted, “Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable!” His charge came just days after the U.S. Treasury Department declined to label […]
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Donald Trump remains determined to pull out U.S. troops deployed in Syria, a message that comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said he convinced Trump to keep U.S. forces there. “The U.S. mission has not changed — the president has been clear that he wants U.S. forces to come […]
President Trump announced Friday night “a combined operation” by the U.S., France and Britain against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, aimed at ending his government’s use of chemical weapons. Explosions lit up the skies over Damascus, the Syrian capital, as Trump spoke from the White House. Syrian television reported that Syria’s air defenses, […]
WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump insists he “never said when an attack on Syria would take place” in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack, tweeting that “it could be very soon or not so soon at all.” A day after warning that “missiles will be coming” to Syria, Trump also said Wednesday “the United […]