US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has been narrowly confirmed as attorney general – the nation’s top law enforcement official. The vote brings to an end a lengthy standoff between Senate Republicans and the Trump administration over Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April. Blanche won confirmation in a […]
The Trump administration has been ordered to stop construction on President Donald Trump’s $400m (£297m) ballroom at the White House. A federal appeals court dealt the latest setback to the controversial project on Friday, testing Trump’s presidential authority. He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be […]
US President Donald Trump has said new talks with Iran will begin on Monday, after calling off what he said would have been “massive” strikes on the country. “They knew the extent of the attack because they saw it forming,” he told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday. “We’re talking to them in […]
The deal between the US and Saudi Arabia to help the Gulf kingdom develop nuclear energy is dependent on Riyadh recognising the State of Israel, President Donald Trump has said. “The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!)… which pertains only to non-military use… will be approved, but is totally subject to […]
US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged “shocking vulnerabilities” in American voting systems. Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election which he lost […]
Announcements made by US President Donald Trump in Ankara on Tuesday regarding the possibility of Turkey’s return to the F-35 program are the product of lengthy, slow-moving processes that have been underway since the first weeks of his return to the White House. Arriving at the NATO summit, Trump said on Tuesday he would lift […]
In the 250 years since the US declared its independence from Great Britain, the nation has grown from a sparsely populated collection of settlements scattered along the Atlantic coast into a global power spread over the breadth of a continent and beyond. Starting from the original 13 colonies that covered 430,000 sq miles (1.1 million […]
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he will go to Turkey and make another trip to China at some point in 2026.
More than 100 days after US and Israeli bombs began falling on Iran, both sides are claiming victory – a sign of how much each needed a way out. A deal has officially ended the fighting, but the harder negotiations are just beginning. Both sides have sold the deal to their public as a win […]
President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, after Iran cast doubt on the timing. In a post on social media, Trump said the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route, would be “open to all” once the deal is agreed. […]
