FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a news conference on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump told two Russian officials in a 2017 meeting that he was not concerned
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration process for certifying new airplanes is not broken but needs to be improved, the chair of an international panel of air-safety regulators, tasked to review Boeing Co’s (BA.N) 737 Max, said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: A photo of Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked on the tarmac
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump grew increasingly exasperated on Thursday as he sat in his cabin aboard Air Force One and watched television coverage of Democrats on a congressional committee accuse him of criminal behavior. U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a photo opportunity with sheriffs from across the country
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to board Air Force One to return to Washington from Kennedy Airport in New York, New York, U.S. September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York prosecutors have agreed to put on hold their bid to enforce their subpoena seeking U.S. President Donald Trump’s
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House released a memo on Wednesday summarizing President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in July that prompted Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to start an impeachment inquiry. Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer holds up a copy of the telephone conversation between U.S. President Donald
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S. attorney general and Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a summary of a momentous telephone call released by the Trump administration on Wednesday. The official account of the half-hour July call laid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plunge into a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday, a move that could dramatically change the 2020 presidential race. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had for months resisted calls inside her party for Trump’s impeachment, announced her decision after meeting with members
UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will launch an inquiry to investigate whether to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump for seeking foreign help to smear a political rival, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday. Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the comment to reporters after meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The growing flap over whether President Donald Trump used his office to seek re-election help from his Ukrainian counterpart poses political risks, and some opportunities, for Democratic White House front-runner Joe Biden. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden waits to speak at the Polk County Democrats’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son in a call with Ukraine’s president. Trump’s statement to reporters about his July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came as the Democratic leader of a key congressional panel said the pursuit of
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If an investigation shows that U.S. President Donald Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, then impeachment would be the only option, U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) listens to a question from
(Reuters) – A U.S. military unit apologized on Saturday and deleted a tweet that used the specter of a stealth bomber being deployed against any young people who tried to break into the Area 51 base in Nevada. The tweet, posted on Friday on the Twitter account of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS),
By Amanda Becker and Jonathan Landay DES MOINES, Iowa/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Saturday called for an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden and his son. “This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Vice President Joe Biden’s decades-long record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues was scrutinized on Friday in Iowa at the first major forum focused on the topic during the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating contest. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the One
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) told staff on Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery products at its U.S. stores, amid a growing crackdown on surging teenage use of such products, reports of vaping-related lung disease and some deaths. FILE PHOTO: Walmart’s logo is seen outside one of the stores in
RACHEL, Nev. (Reuters) – UFO enthusiasts began descending on rural Nevada on Thursday near the secret U.S. military installation known as Area 51, long rumored to house government secrets about alien life, with local authorities hoping the visitors were coming in peace. Dust blows through the desert as an influx of tourists responding to a