U.S. President Donald Trump is headed Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, where gunmen shot and killed a combined 31 people last weekend, two cities where many residents who blame the president’s rhetoric for fomenting the violence are urging him to stay away. White House officials said Trump’s visits would be similar […]
WHITE HOUSE — In remarks widely panned by environmental organizations, U.S. President Donald Trump defended his record on the environment in a White House speech Monday. “A strong economy is vital to maintaining a healthy environment,” Trump said. Radical environmental plans would not make the world cleaner, according to Trump — who pulled the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege Wednesday to refuse to hand over documents to opposition Democratic lawmakers investigating a question about citizenship on next year’s once-a-decade U.S. census. Trump’s action came just ahead of a scheduled vote by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on whether to hold Attorney General William […]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan said Thursday he did not authorize and was not even aware of a White House directive to have the U.S. Navy warship USS John S. McCain “out of sight” when President Donald Trump visited Japan. “I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot […]