In one of the most consequential moves of his young administration, President Trump could within days impose new restrictions, a decision that could impact trade with more than a dozen major countries. The European Commission president responded with comments that were a reflection of how European officials have become more comfortable challenging Trump’s foreign policy stances.
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Video on a German government Facebook page showed Vladimir Putin adding a friendly little finger point and a smile, while President Trump clapped the Russian leader on the shoulder.
Sen. Jerry Moran talks to activist Mike Oxford after a town hall. (David Weigel/Post)
The people attending Sen. Jerry Moran's town hall aimed to prove that there was no demand for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, even in the reddest parts of a deep red state.
If Republicans can’t muster 50 votes for their measure to overhaul health coverage, they will have to draft a more modest bill with Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks that represent a significant shift for him.
Years after the housing crisis undermined the U.S. economy, state budgets are still being battered, facing the strain of plummeting energy prices, generous tax cuts and a boom in online shopping that has depressed sales tax collections.
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Amid North Korea’s recent flurry of provocative missile tests, Kim Jong Nam’s killing by liquid VX now looks to many experts like a proving exercise for a chemical-weapons stockpile that Pyongyang is thought to have built over decades and kept carefully under wraps.
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Analysis “Put the supply out there, and demand will follow,” Perry said at a coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. If the energy secretary was suggesting that no matter how much coal the industry produces there will be demand for it, he was clearly mistaken.
The first unit of Tesla’s affordable, pure-electric car is expected today. But ongoing production issues have observers wondering if the company is ready for the future it helped create.
The case is likely to return for clarification to the Supreme Court, which ruled last month that the government could begin enforcing the ban, but not on those with “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship” with a person or entity in the United States.
Can repeated exposure to remote killing over a long career lead to moral exhaustion? As technology erases boundaries that once separated the war zone from home, officials wonder how they can rebuild them.
The shooting guard averaged 14.5 points last season for the Hawks, who acquired him in 2015 in a draft-day deal with … the Knicks.
A New York hospital said it would admit the terminally ill infant provided certain conditions were met, including expedited FDA approval of the experimental treatment that the baby’s parents fought for in court.
