“Turning over these spectacular wild places to dirty drilling and fracking will sicken Californians, harm endangered species, and fuel climate chaos.” The Trump administration on Friday moved to open more than 725,000 acres of California’s central coast to potential oil and gas drilling, a decision environmentalists condemned as a disastrous handout to big polluters at […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to halt funding to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the State Department confirmed Saturday. “We are carrying out the president’s direction and ending [fiscal year] 2017 and [fiscal year] 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We will be engaging […]
WASHINGTON — By any measure, it has been another extraordinary week in the presidency of Donald Trump. The president came up short in hopes of striking a major nuclear deal in his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump’s efforts in Vietnam were largely overshadowed, though, by the riveting testimony before Congress of his […]
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ANOI, VIETNAM — The table had been set for a celebratory lunch at the landmark Metropole Hotel and a ceremony prepared for U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to sign agreements. But both events were hastily canceled just before noon Thursday, bringing a premature end to the second summit by […]