House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refuses to say at what point she would support impeaching President Donald Trump. “Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said,” Pelosi says. “But he has a habit of making appalling statements,” she added. Even if Trump was found to have accepted a foreign government’s […] Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he would support German Chancellor Angela Merkel if she were to seek to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission. The German leader has said she will retire from politics when her fourth term runs out in 2021. But some in the bloc hope she […] Read more
Markets have been reeling in recent weeks over Donald Trump’s tariff threats against Mexico and China. In an interview with CNBC, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defends Trump’s use of tariffs as a way to gain leverage on issues that aren’t directly tied to trade. Trump retains the ability to impose new tariffs on Mexico […] Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday pressured Mexico to stop people from crossing into the United States, one day after threatening to impose new tariffs on Mexican imports in a bid to get the country to crack down on illegal immigration. Trump said on Thursday he would ratchet up tariffs unless Mexico stopped […] Read more
Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament early on Thursday, paving the way for a new election after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government before a midnight deadline. The ballot is widely expected to take place in September, the second this year. It represented unprecedented upheaval, commentators said, even in a […] Read more
The Brexit Party is forecast to become the largest national party seated in the European Parliament, according to projections from Europe Elects, a further signal that eurosceptic parties will make major gains in the EU elections. The projections come as YouGov released a survey on Wednesday indicating the upward trajectory for Nigel Farage’s party remains […] Read more
Ministers from Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) resigned en masse on Monday in the wake of a scandal involving party leader Heinz-Christian Strache. The FPO, the junior partner in Austria’s ruling coalition, had warned earlier in the day that it would do so if Chancellor Sebastian Kurz moved to have the FPO Interior Minister Herbert […] Read more
Global energy needs are likely to grow steadily for years to come. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that if the world continues with the current energy-related policies, its energy needs would be more than 50 percent higher in 2030 than now. Over 60 percent of that increase would be in the form of oil […] Read more
His report is done, but Robert Mueller’s work will live on for a while longer. Over the course of its sprawling 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the special counsel’s team referred 14 criminal cases to other offices, Mueller’s 448-page report revealed. Only two of those referrals — one involving former Trump […] Read more
Just weeks after talks with Donald Trump stalled, North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has set up a meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. They will hold talks in Russia towards the end of April, according to the Kremlin. It comes after a second summit between Kim and Trump in February failed to reach a deal […] Read more
