Samantha Power, US president Barack Obama’s ambassador to the UN, put aside the diplomacy for her last major speech in the role to tell the international community it must do everything it can to stop what she described as a Russian assault on the world order.
When finally admitting that Russia hacked the US election, Donald Trump insisted on one thing: that it didn’t affect the overall result.
Almost as soon as it started, the Jan. 12 Senate confirmation hearing of Mike Pompeo was hit by a blackout. Not a news blackout—that would come later, in a closed-door hearing where US president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for CIA director presumably could speak more freely to the panel of senators questioning him.
Nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s for secretary of State was Donald Trump’s boldest challenge to Congress. And it particularly stoked senior Republican senators’ worries about Tillerson’s close relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
As their colleagues on Capitol Hill kicked off a flurry of confirmation hearings for US president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee convened today (Jan. 10) on another matter.
Donald Trump may be new to elected politics, but the US president-elect is already using one of the oldest tricks in the books: burying the news in yet more news.
With an economy bigger than that of France, a population of 39 million, and 4.2 million more votes for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, California is setting itself up to be America’s leading liberal bastion against the incoming president.
The nuclear threat is now greater than at any time since the 1980s.
Today is a good day to look back on one of Hillary Clinton’s favorite Trump quips, fittingly preserved on Twitter:
Britain and its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have long been the scourge of the anti-money laundering community.
As Donald Trump mans his cabinet with climate deniers and skeptics, green activists have been putting together battle plans.
US president Barack Obama held the final National Public Radio (NPR) interview of his term today (Dec. 19), covering topics that ranged from the power of the presidency to race relations and the future of the Democratic party.
If China hadn’t provided warning enough to Donald Trump by seizing an American vessel in the South China Sea and threatening sanctions on an unnamed US automaker, president Obama had clear advice at a press conference today: think things through before you mess with Taiwan.
It’s no secret that Russian president Vladimir Putin and Hillary Clinton share a strained history—dating back to the rockiest period of Putin’s presidency in 2011, when demonstrators filled the streets to protest allegedly fraudulent elections.
At yesterday’s big tech summit in Trump Tower there were four notable attendees who have nothing to do with Silicon Valley and no job in government. Guess what they all had in common?
Updated with Trump’s late-night tweets just before midnight ET on Dec. 12.
After spending his first weeks as US president-elect getting pounded with criticism about his potential conflict of interests, Donald Trump announced that Dec. 15 will bring a big reveal: Legal agreements freeing him from his companies—and ostensibly all the attendant ethics problems—are finally going to be made public.
President-elect Donald Trump may be assembling the most climate change-denying cabinet in recent history, but there is some cheer for environmentalists.
Former House speaker and major Donald Trump-backer Newt Gingrich chose a curious way to mark the 75th anniversary since around two and a half thousand Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor.
After weeks of speculation about whether and how he might detach himself from his business empire, US president-elect Donald Trump demurely announced this week that he sold all of his stock holdings in June, conceding that they just might have impaired his judgment as president.
It’s fair to say Donald Trump’s choice for housing and urban development (HUD) secretary isn’t exactly passionate about the subject.
Some of the biggest urban-pollution headlines of the past few years haven’t come from likely suspects like Beijing and New Delhi, but rather once-pristine European cities: Paris. Athens. Madrid.
If you were worried that the three former Wall Street bankers Donald Trump has tapped for lead roles in his administration so far represent a pretty limited set of business expertise, fear not.
The grey areas around Donald Trump’s business interests and his potential conflicts of interest as president have been a permanent feature of the US presidential transition period. His empire is just too sprawling, his web of connections too extensive, for him to take himself completely out of the firing line in the short period between election and inauguration.
