Author: Reuters
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Iran talks could shape Vance’s political rise
WASHINGTON/LUCERNE, Switzerland • Vice President JD Vance is poised to take on his biggest role yet on the international stage as President Donald Trump’s chief negotiator to end the three-month war with Iran, a moment that could shape Vance’s prospects as a White House successor. The two nations agreed to a provisional peace agreement on…
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Kushner project being developed on disputed land, Albanian villagers say
ZVERNEC, Albania • When Kostaq Konomi approached what he says is his land on the seafront in southern Albania last month, he was met with a barbed wire fence and men in black uniforms who refused him entry. The land, he later learned from news reports, was now part of a luxury resort planned by…
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Judge orders halt to Trump’s ‘censorship’ of park exhibits
BOSTON • A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they “do not align with its preferred narrative.” U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest…
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Deal to end war will be signed Sunday, Trump says
DUBAI/WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump and mediator Pakistan said on Saturday an initial deal to end the war in the Middle East would be signed on Sunday, although Iran denied the signing would take place so soon. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the two sides had agreed on a framework for a peace deal…
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Screwworm border closure fuels beef boom in Mexico, gloom in Texas
LUBBOCK, Texas/SALTILLO, Mexico – Lubbock Feeders has been fattening cattle in West Texas since Dwight Eisenhower was U.S. president. Now, row upon row of pens sit empty. The 70-year-old feedlot in Lubbock, Texas, is on the brink of closure after a halt to U.S. imports of Mexican livestock last year dried up the supply that…
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Trump faces new Republican resistance in Congress
WASHINGTON • Donald Trump is facing widening opposition within his own party as Republican lawmakers in Congress, long reluctant to defy him, are showing a greater willingness to break ranks with the president. Just over the past week, multiple factions of Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives have stepped forward to rebuke his…
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Trump talks up his ballroom plan while playing down Americans’ economic pain
WASHINGTON • Standing in front of the White House ballroom construction site, President Donald Trump appealed for patience from Americans struggling with soaring gas prices as he sought to justify the cost of a project critics call a vanity effort. “This is peanuts,” he said on Tuesday in an apparent reference to the economic damage…
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US to invest $2 billion in IBM, other quantum computing firms
By Harshita Mary Varghese and Aditya Soni The Trump administration will take $2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum-computing companies, including a new IBM venture, in a major push to secure U.S. leadership in the emerging technology and counter China. The move shows the growing prominence of quantum computing, where recent technological breakthroughs have…
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Trump returns from China with stability and a stalemate | Analysis
WASHINGTON/BEIJING • President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing last week may have produced modest results by the standards of U.S.-China summits but it highlighted a clear benefit for China: after the extremes of last year’s trade war, the countries have reverted to their familiar economic and strategic standoff. Two days of talks between Trump and…
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Israel kills Hamas leader in Gaza strike
CAIRO • An Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed the chief of Hamas’ military wing, the most senior official from the Palestinian militant group killed by Israel since a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement in October that was meant to halt fighting. The Israeli military said on Saturday that Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed in what it described…