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Rubio heading to Panama, other Latin American countriespublished at 20:07 Greenwich Mean Time 20:07 GMT Tom BatemanState Department Correspondent Image source, Gett Marco Rubio will travel next week to Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, for his first foreign trip as Secretary of State. The visit comes after President Trump said […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a key Republican swing vote, said Thursday that she has concerns about President Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, and would not say how she’ll vote this afternoon on whether to advance his nomination. “There is a big vote this afternoon,” Murkowski told CNN’s Manu Raju of the Senate’s plan to […]
It has been less than three days since President Trump took office, but the immigration transformation he ordered has already begun. The Pentagon deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border on Wednesday. The head of the nation’s immigration courts was fired, along with three other senior officials. In Mexico, about 30,000 immigrants with asylum […]
Ukrainians aren’t optimistic, but some in Moscow see Kremlin’s position shiftingpublished at 05:48 Greenwich Mean Time 05:48 GMT Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe Correspondent On social media, there is a generally scathing response from Ukrainians to Donald Trump’s call to Vladimir Putin to end the war. Trump’s words were re-posted, in translation, by one popular account on […]
It has been less than three days since President Trump took office, but the immigration transformation he ordered has already begun. The Pentagon deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border on Wednesday. The head of the nation’s immigration courts was fired, along with three other senior officials. In Mexico, about 30,000 immigrants with asylum […]
Some congressional Democrats are condemning Donald Trump’s first actions in office — including a pledge to end birthright citizenship — even as others are vowing to work with the president, at least for now. Sen. Ruben Gallego, for instance, declared that he will “do all I can to fight” Trump’s pledge to end birthright citizenship. […]
Before dawn Monday, ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, several dozen people waited in freezing temperatures at a bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border city, with El Paso, Texas. They held appointments for CBP One, a program that allows asylum seekers to schedule initial appointments before reaching the border. CBP One has brought nearly 1 […]
Good morning from the White Housepublished at 11:20 Greenwich Mean Time 11:20 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from the White House Image source, Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC News Good morning from the White House – which is already buzzing with activity in the pre-dawn hours of inauguration day. Getting here was itself an unusual experience. I took […]
Implementation of the agreement could begin Sunday, when the first group of hostages may be freed, according to a senior U.S. official involved in the talks. Negotiations intensified over the last four days, according to the official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Trump’s Mideast envoy, Steve […]
When the Federal Reserve began lowering interest rates in September, inflation was cooling and the job market was showing some troubling signs of weakness. Three months and a full percentage point of rate cuts later, the opposite is true: The job market seems to have stabilized, but progress on inflation has stalled. As a result, […]