WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will likely make a deal with China on trade, adding that a lot of progress had been made to resolve the two countries’ differences but warning that he still may impose more tariffs on Chinese goods. “China very much wants to make a deal,” […]

In a sharply worded speech Thursday, the president announced two new immigration policies that are expected to be met with lawsuits in federal court. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered a sharply worded speech on immigration Thursday, vowing to hold undocumented immigrants in detention until they could be deported and to block asylum seekers from claiming asylum if they are caught […]

The US mid-term elections in one week’s time will help define the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency. Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states. Between now and then, we’ll bring you updates and all the best analysis every weekday in this […]

SHENZHEN  – More than 70 percent of U.S. firms operating in southern China are considering delaying further investment there and moving some or all of their manufacturing to other countries as the trade war bites into profits, a business survey showed on Monday. U.S. companies operating in China believe they are suffering more from the […]

Analysis: With a mail bomb suspect in custody, Trump finds himself in a political box of his own making. WASHINGTON — With the capture of a suspect in the mail-bomb deliveries to prominent Democrats and CNN, President Donald Trump finds himself — with less than two weeks to go until the midterm elections — in a political […]

A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump. US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc, saying that more arrests could follow. Mr Trump said the acts were “despicable and have no place in our country”, and promised “swift and certain […]

First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day’s most important political stories and why they matter. WASHINGTON — After the discovery that pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democrats (including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and now Joe Biden) and to CNN, President Donald Trump talked about civility and unity […]

The agreement was designed to keep ground-based nuclear missiles out of Europe, but critics say tearing it up could spark an arms race there. A piece of reckless brinkmanship that could spark an arms race between NATO and Russia in Europe, or a hardball negotiating strategy that might push Moscow into keeping its longstanding promises […]

“There obviously was a tremendous mistake made, and what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover up,” the official said. Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it had formally apologized to the family of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even as its foreign minister called his killing at a consulate in Istanbul “a rogue […]

Russia has condemned US plans to withdraw from a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty and threatened to retaliate for a “very dangerous step”. On Saturday, President Trump said he intended to “terminate” the three-decade-old 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. He said Russia had been “violating it for many years”. The deal banned ground-launched medium-range […]