Tag: politics
After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China
WASHINGTON -- On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods...
3 coup-hit West African nations leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration
ABUJA, Nigeria -- The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known...
Trump fires two Democratic commissioners of agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
ARLINGTON, Va. -- President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in...
Wisconsin Republicans ask liberal Supreme Court Justice to step aside in union case
MADISON, Wis. -- The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Tuesday asked that a liberal state Supreme Court justice step aside in a pending case...
Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message
ATLANTA -- President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the...
Protesters attack embassies in Congo’s capital as security forces try to slow rebels in the east
GOMA, Congo -- Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma...