35% Oil Stake: Trump Administration’s Venezuela Gamble Turns Washington Into an Unusual Oil Partner
35% oil stake plans involving the U.S. government and Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt have thrust President Donald J. Trump’s Venezuela…
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Trump Administration Takes Transgender Military Ban to Supreme Court, Asking Justices to Let Pentagon Start the Discharge Clock
The transgender military ban has reached another dramatic legal checkpoint, with the Trump administration asking the Supreme Court to allow…
G20 Finance Summit: Washington Wants Global Growth, Fewer Imbalances—and Iran to Feel the Economic Squeeze
The G20 Finance Summit is heading to Asheville, North Carolina, with an agenda that sounds like a global economic repair…
Immigration Crackdown Expands: Trump Administration Turns Its Focus on Legal Entrants, Too
The immigration crackdown under current President Donald J. Trump is entering a new and potentially more contentious phase, with the…
California Can’t Veto Trump’s Pipeline Restart — Federal Court Hands Washington the Upper Hand in Santa Barbara Showdown
President Donald J. Trump: The pipeline restart in Santa Barbara County has entered a decisive new phase after a federal…
Jason Watson: Trump Criticism Now Carries a Military Price Tag as Air Force Major Faces Rare Criminal Charges After Impeachment Call
Trump criticism has taken an extraordinary turn for U.S. Air Force Maj. Jason Watson, who is now facing formal criminal…
Trump Intervention Pulls DOJ Back From Live Nation Fight as Ticketmaster’s Monopoly Battle Takes a Dramatic Turn
Trump intervention has become the unexpected subplot in America’s extraordinary battle over Live Nation and Ticketmaster, after President Donald J….
Trump-Backed IndyCar Race Roars Through Washington as Politics, Patriotism and Speed Take the Same Lap
For once, things are moving unusually quickly in Washington: the Trump-backed IndyCar race is getting underway today as the Freedom…
US Navy Flies Through Taiwan Strait Ahead of Xi-Trump Meeting, Because Apparently Diplomacy Now Needs a Flight Plan
The US Navy has sent a P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance aircraft through the Taiwan Strait in international airspace, just…
Treasury Hits Ecuador-to-U.S. Cocaine Network as Sanctions Expose a Maritime Pipeline to American Streets
The cocaine network allegedly stretching from Ecuador through Mexico and ultimately toward the United States has come under a fresh…