The Trump administration threatened sanctions Monday if the International Criminal Court in The Hague carries out an investigation into allegations of war crimes by U.S. military and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan. A speech by U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton at the conservative Federalist Society in Washington took a hard stance against the court. It […]
While the US and China are in a war of words involving tariffs on billions of dollars in imports to each country, the seafood industry in the Pacific Northwest is still uncertain where the chips may fall. “This is a huge deal,” says Garrett Evridge, an economist with the McDowell Group, a Juneau, Alaska based […]
CAPITOL HILL — Several U.S. lawmakers are dismissing President Donald Trump’s assertion on Twitter that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. They also rejected any swift lifting of U.S. sanctions amid claims by Pyongyang that Trump agreed to sanctions relief during his meeting with Kim Jong Un. Democrats are heaping scorn on Trump’s tweet […]
WHITE HOUSE — China vows it will fight back if the United States goes through with plans to impose huge tariffs on Chinese goods. President Donald Trump’s administration said in a statement Tuesday it planned to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods that contain “industrially-significant technology.” It said the proposed tariffs are […]