Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she was troubled by social media posts that the leading Democrat in Maine’s Senate race made more than a decade ago about sexual assault. Last year, The Washington Post uncovered online comments that Graham Platner posted in 2013, in which the Democratic candidate downplayed the difficulties service members face when...
President Trump said on Saturday that he might pull even more U.S. military troops out of Germany, a threat that came one day after he ordered the Pentagon to withdraw approximately 5,000 service members from the country. “We are going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” Trump told reporters...
An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court Friday evening that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts the agency did not renew in January, reversing a controversial decision that prompted a coalition of labor unions, scientific groups and local governments to sue the administration.
The leader of the Czech Republic pushed back this week against President Trump’s accusations that Europe has failed to do its part to support the U.S.’s ongoing military operations against Iran. “I believe that Europe could do much more, but we are not part of it,” Czech President Petr Pavel told CNN’s Christine Amanpour at...
Attacks on the legacy of the civil rights movement have included library purges and demands for censorship in college classrooms, national parks and monuments and museums.
America's European allies are pushing back hard against President Trump's pressure tactics in his bid to take control of Greenland, with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer issuing rare public criticism of Trump on Monday. Starmer called Trump's threatened 10 percent tariffs on goods from eight European allies "completely wrong," though he suggested "calm" discussions to...
President Trump suggested the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award last year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was a factor in his continued push to acquire Greenland in a letter to Norway's leader over the weekend. In a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre shared with multiple European...
Democrats must take bold action to address the growing presence of ICE agents in the US, including imposing congressional oversight and holding ICE officials accountable for their actions.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued rare public criticism of President Trump in remarks on Monday, calling his tariffs on countries defending Greenland "completely wrong." Starmer said at a press conference that “any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone.” However, asked how...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the world leaders who have been invited to join President Trump’s “Board of Peace,” formed to implement the U.S.-brokered peace plan between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. “Putin received an invitation through diplomatic channels to join the Peace Council. We are studying all the details of this proposal, including...
Trump frames the takeover as an enormous opportunity for America’s oil companies, the American people and Venezuelans. In reality, he has doubled down on a dead-end energy policy fraught with profound and dangerous problems.
President Trump’s decision to suspend naturalization ceremonies is leaving residents across the country in an unusual position, now stuck in limbo after they were on the verge of gaining U.S. citizenship. Critics say the pause is the Trump administration’s latest form of collective punishment for migrants, who have seen their hopes of citizenship dashed following...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has never been shy about speaking his mind — and the past few weeks have given him plenty to talk about. He's spoken out about President Trump's rhetoric on Greenland, the investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and how White House aides are steering Trump in what he views as...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the United States is in an “ongoing war” with Venezuela. “That is an act of war, it’s an ongoing war, to continue to take their oil, ongoing war, to distribute it,” Paul said during a Sunday appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” “I still hope it works...
