My fellow Americans: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan will be visiting me here at the White House next week. It’s an important visit, because, while I expect to take up our relations with our good friend Japan, which overall remain excellent, recent disagreements between our two countries on the issue of trade will also be…
The U.S. Attorney for Maryland had told superiors at the Department of Justice that she does not believe there is strong enough evidence to charge Sen. Adam Schiff of California with mortgage fraud, MSNBC reported Thursday. President Donald Trump has called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to criminally charge the California Democrat Schiff, a staunch…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks holding a photos of the new ballroom during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on October 22, 2025. Salwan Georges | The Washington Post | Getty Images Big Tech and other publicly traded companies are helping to…
Work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. Jacquelyn Martin | AP The demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete as President Donald Trump pushes ahead with plans to build a massive ballroom,…
The U.S. weighed curbs on software-related exports to China, responding to Beijing’s rare earth export controls, ahead of a critical round of negotiations. <
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters There was a stony silence from Moscow a day after the U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Russian…
Rupert Murdoch looks on, at the White House, in Washington, U.S. Feb. 3, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Why let a $10 billion lawsuit get in the way of old friends having some chicken and gravy for dinner? President Donald Trump last week dined at the White House with Rupert Murdoch and that media baron’s…
A general view shows the oil refinery of the Lukoil company in Volgograd, Russia on April 22, 2022. Reuters Photographer | Reuters The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed further sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, citing “Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.” “Now is the…
The U.S. government shutdown on Wednesday entered its 22nd day, becoming the second-longest federal funding lapse ever, with no end in sight. The milestone means that the two longest shutdowns have both occurred while President Donald Trump was in office. The longest shutdown began in December 2018, in Trump’s first term, and dragged on for…
Demolition of a section of the East Wing of the White House, during construction on the new ballroom extension of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. Aaron Schartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech giant Alphabet is contributing $22 million to help build the White House ballroom under a…
