WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to working to address the border and fentanyl smuggling, key issues that have led the incoming U.S. president to threaten massive tariffs.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday, called their dinner Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida a “very ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — It would take years, if ever, for Mexico to accomplish what incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding to avoid tariffs: stemming the flow of migrants and drugs over the border.

That’s why Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to avoid a full-blown trade war might be more about doing enough for both sides to ...Read more

Russell Vought, one of the chief architects of Project 2025 — a conservative blueprint for the next presidency — is no fan of the federal government that President-elect Donald Trump will soon lead.

He believes "woke" civil servants and "so-called expert authorities" wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives ...Read more

In the final days before Romania’s parliamentary elections this weekend, the governing parties’ leaders both quit, pollsters gave up on projecting the results and the nation’s top court cast serious doubt on the integrity of the voting process.

And the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Sunday’s parliamentary contest pits the pro-European ...Read more

RIYADH, Saui Arabia — With its replica arches and columns from ancient Persepolis, the new “Iranian Corner” at one of Riyadh’s most popular outdoor venues has been doing decent business selling carpets, saffron and other products.

Saudi Arabia’s capital might seem an unlikely place to showcase the Islamic Republic. The rivalry ...Read more

Two days after the November election, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey touted a court victory against a federal immigration rule to aid migrants married to U.S. citizens, a decision that came in a lawsuit filed by Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and 13 other Republican states.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala ...Read more

If U.S. economic growth is so good, then why does the Fed need to cut interest rates?

That was essentially the question put to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently after a speech in Dallas. It would be more constructive to examine the premise — why is growth so good? — and ask what the Fed and others can do to keep it that way.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, according to people familiar with their plans, as the incoming U.S. leader threatens to implement fresh tariffs on neighboring countries unless they halt the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented migrants across borders.

Trudeau landed in West Palm Beach, ...Read more

Romanian authorities began recounting ballots after an election that shook the country’s political establishment with a victory for a little-known ultranationalist candidate as the country’s top court weighed accusations of outside meddling.

The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ordered the recount Thursday as security officials said the ...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t yield the advantage he predicted.

Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, the official exit poll showed. Sinn Fein won 21.1%, while...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, according to the official exit poll, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t go as planned.

Harris’s Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, according to the poll commissioned by ...Read more

Kamala Harris for president again? How about Gavin Newsom?

Sure, it’s early, but at the moment two Californians, Vice President Harris and Gov. Newsom, lead the list of possible 2028 Democratic contenders in a new Emerson College poll.

Harris, who just lost this year’s presidential election to Donald Trump, was the choice of 37% of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s team has asked a key conservative activist to present a plan to slash federal funding for universities that refuse to scrap diversity and equity programs.

Christopher Rufo, who played a role in ousting Harvard’s first Black president Claudine Gay earlier this year, said he was invited to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...Read more

ATLANTA — Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the Biden administration’s nearly $6 billion federal loan expected for Rivian’s electric vehicle manufacturing plant, labeling it as a “political shot” at Tesla boss and billionaire Elon Musk.

The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office said the loan designed to jump-start Rivian’s electric...Read more