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August 15, 2020

US agrees with Canada, Mexico to extend border restrictions into September amid coronavirus

The U.S. has agreed with Canada and Mexico to extend land border restrictions on non-essential travel into September amid continued fears about the coronavirus pandemic.

July 30, 2020

Pompeo tells lawmakers the ‘tide is turning’ against China

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told lawmakers Thursday that the “tide is turning” on China, as the U.S has led the push to ramp up international pressure on the communist regime on issues from property theft to international surveillance to the Chinese crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong.

July 8, 2020

Trump meets Mexican president at White House, despite Democratic objections

President Trump met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House on Wednesday in Lopez Obrador’s first foreign trip as president -- and despite complaints from Democrats that the meeting was politically motivated.

June 23, 2020

House Republicans urge Trump to reconsider US troop withdrawal from Germany

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday urged President Trump to reconsider drawing down U.S. troops in Germany, warning that the move would “complicate” the United States’ standing with allies and put national security “at risk.”

May 20, 2020

Trump suggests G7 should now meet in-person at Camp David in June, despite coronavirus cancellation

President Trump on Wednesday said he is considering rescheduling the June Group of Seven (G7) summit -- which was canceled amid the coronavirus crisis -- on or around the same time as initially planned in Camp David -- as he seeks to give a sign of “normalization” to the world.

January 10, 2020

UK issues extradition request for American woman charged in death of British teen

British prosecutors have issued an extradition request to the United States for the wife of an American diplomat accused of killing a teenager in a wrong-way collision last year.

December 4, 2019

Trump hits back after Trudeau laughs at him in NATO summit video

President Trump slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday as "two faced" after video surfaced of some of the world's top leaders at the NATO summit in London appearing to laugh at his expense.

December 3, 2019

Trump boosts Boris Johnson as he shoots down Corbyn's NHS claim

President Trump on Tuesday gave British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a boost in his party's fight for re-election, as he shot down a central claim by the left-wing Labour Party that the country’s National Health Service (NHS) would be “sold off” to American companies as part of a post-Brexit trade deal.

October 15, 2019

Harry Dunn's parents meet Trump, say he offered meeting with diplomat's wife at center of immunity controversy

The mother and stepfather of a British teenager allegedly killed by an American diplomat's wife in a wrong-way crash earlier this year met with President Trump on Tuesday, telling reporters afterward that the president had offered to have them meet with the woman on the spot.

October 5, 2019

US diplomat's wife leaves the UK as police probe deadly August crash

The wife of an American diplomat has left the United Kingdom after becoming a suspect in a fatal traffic accident.