It’s hard to know what to expect when the Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un meet in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb. 27-28. The US president has been trying to manage expectations, while his secretary of state Mike Pompeo is promising a “substantial step” toward forcing the North Korean dictator to shed his nuclear-weapons capacity.
Haters in the US felt particularly threatened in 2018 and were compelled to organize.
Notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after a federal jury in New York convicted him today (Feb. 12) of running an international multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking operation.
Donald Trump promoted his border wall at a rally with supporters a few blocks from the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas last night (Feb. 11). Opponents, including former US representative Beto O’Rourke, staged their own demonstration across the street.
A third of Americans think it can be OK for a white person to wear makeup to appear black, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
El Paso, Texas, a border town not usually in the national spotlight, got a big plug in Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
Stacey Abrams, who delivered the Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last night (Feb. 5), said she wants him to succeed. But she also wants him to stop lying.
Donald Trump set out to promote unity during his State of the Union address tonight (Feb. 5), but his remarks promised to prompt some division, too, even as he called for bipartisanship and cooperation.
After a delay due to the record-long government shutdown, Donald Trump will get to deliver his State of the Union address tonight (Feb. 5).
If, as Donald Trump has suggested, a country’s success can be measured by its trade balance, Mexico is winning big league.
Venezuela’s National Assembly speaker swore himself in as the country’s interim president on Wednesday (Jan. 23) after massive protests against Nicolás Maduro’s government.
As a presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro promised to water down protections for the Amazon rainforest and open it up to farming.
Mexicans are getting unprecedented access to alleged presidential dirt via an unexpected source: the trial of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in Brooklyn, New York.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is disinviting Donald Trump from his scheduled State of the Union address to Congress planned for the end of this month.
A depleted US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will struggle to keep a lid on insider trading and other types of fraud during the continuing government shutdown, experts tell Quartz, creating prime opportunities that wouldn’t exist otherwise.
The US government shutdown has blown a nearly $5 billion hole in federal workers’ finances. That’s the amount of back pay that has accumulated since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, according to calculations by data technology company Enigma.
During a South Texas visit, Donald Trump again stated his case that a wall along the Mexican border is the only way to prevent criminals from sneaking into the US, part of his renewed campaign to get funding for the project.
Tarrant County, home to two million residents in the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, is the last urban enclave in Texas still in GOP hands—just barely. Republicans’ shrinking lead has local party officials quarreling over how to avoid losing it altogether.
Jair Bolsonaro, the strident congressman who swept Brazil’s presidential elections last October, will take office on Jan. 1.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has collected stacks of evidence in his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Among them is a nude selfie, according to a Thursday court filing by one of the Russian companies accused of spreading misinformation to influence voters.
Donald Trump’s confrontational trade policy has already cost American farmers billions of dollars in lost sales due retaliatory tariffs imposed by China. Now they’re bracing for a different kind of loss: missing out on tariff reductions and other perks under a massive new trade deal among Pacific Rim nations.
Immigration was one of 2018’s most politically explosive issues, whether in the US, Germany, or Turkey.
The US government shutdown is putting a damper on federal workers’ holidays.
Donald Trump is still determined to shut down the US government if Congress doesn’t approve money for his border wall.
