Tag: White House

• Tuesday, October 21st 2025 - 08:41 UTC

  Construction of White House's ballroom underway

  

  The White House has begun the demolition of a portion of the East Wing to make way for President Donald Trump's planned US$250 million ballroom. First built in 1902, the East Wing has been renovated multiple times, with a second floor added in 1942.

• Friday, August 1st 2025 - 09:22 UTC

  Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canadian products

  

  US President Donald Trump has raised the tariff rate on Canadian imports from 25% to 35%, effective August 1. The White House justified the increase by stating that Canada has not done enough to “arrest, seize, detain or otherwise intercept... traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs.” Trump also announced Thursday a 90-day moratorium with Mexico after a call with President Claudia Sheinbaum, keeping 25% tariff rates in place.

• Monday, January 20th 2025 - 08:10 UTC

  Trump making triumphant comeback to the White House

  

  Four years after disappearing behind the scenes amid growing discontent and suspicions about loyalties and vote counts, Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday with a new vice president (J.D. Vance), new energy, and the galvanization that legal proceedings and assassination attempts leave in a political leader.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Secret Service finds cocaine in the West Wing of the White House

  

  A white substance found inside the White House late on Sunday, that prompted a brief evacuation, tested positive for cocaine, sources told two news agencies on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Lacalle welcomed at White House by President Biden

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday met at the White House with his US colleague Joseph Biden, who “applauded” the South American leader's stance on the Ukraine crisis, his defense of fundamental principles in Venezuela, and for his commitment to regional economic integration.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Lula da Silva will be visiting the White House on Friday: long list of issues in the bilateral agenda

  

  United States President Joe Biden will be receiving Brazilian president Lula da Silva in the White House on Friday. The meeting is intended “to further strengthen the close relationship between the United States and Brazil,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 20:06 UTC

  White House against Trump's attack on the Constitution

  

  White House Spokesman Andrew Bates Sunday said in a statement that “attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned.”

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden hosts his first 4th of July celebration as US President

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday hosted a party at the White House marking the 245th Anniversary of his country's Declaration of Independence.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Returning US “war powers” from the White House to Congress stalled in Senate

  

  Republican Senators are delaying an upper House committee's vote on the repeal of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF), the so-called wide-ranging war powers that allowed the war in Iraq, and other military actions.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 05:28 UTC

  Former US Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale dies aged 93

  

  Former US Vice President Walter Mondale (1977-1981) has died in Minneapolis, at the age of 93, his family confirmed. No cause was given.