Tag: Donald Trump

• Saturday, September 19th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  US Supreme Court stalwart liberal has died, giving Trump a chance to expand the conservative majority

  

  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, the court said, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Biden leads Trump by 9 points; the president's “law and order” message falls short

  

  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump nationally among likely U.S. voters by 9 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Trump’s “law and order” message falling short with its target audience of suburban voters.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  US curbs steel imports from Brazil and Mexico, boosting protection for US steelmakers

  

  President Donald Trump’s administration took new steps to curb steel imports from Brazil and Mexico, boosting protections for battered U.S. steelmakers and jobs in the election battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  US tariffs on Chinese goods breach trade rules, says WTO; Trump suggests he will abandon the organization

  

  The World Trade Organization found on Tuesday that the United States breached global trading rules by imposing multibillion-dollar tariffs in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, a ruling that drew anger from Washington.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Trump denies climate change in California; Biden called him a “climate arsonist”

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West, during a briefing in California on the deadly blazes.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Trump's candidate will be the next president of the Inter-American Development bank

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to run Latin America’s main financing institution appears poised to win the top job in this weekend’s election amid faltering regional opposition to having a U.S. citizen run the bank for the first time in 61 years.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Trump and followers argue strongly for new social media rules and question “speech restrictions”

  

  Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trump's push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  France criticizes US for sanctioning International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor

  

  France led criticism of US sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Thursday, saying Washington had launched a “serious attack” on the global body.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 07:12 UTC

  Biden remains ahead in polls: Trump unable to refocus campaign from the pandemic to civil unrest

  

  President Donald Trump’s attempt to make civil unrest a central theme of his re-election campaign has yet to boost his political standing, as most Americans do not see crime as a major problem confronting the nation and a majority remain sympathetic to anti-racism protests, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Guaidó counts with US keeping pressure on Maduro whoever wins November election

  

  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Friday he is counting on the United States to maintain pressure on President Nicolas Maduro no matter who wins the US' November presidential election.