Author: Deb Riechmann
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Republican senators push for Biden to receive intelligence
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WASHINGTON • As President Donald Trump refuses to allow presumptive President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings — even those he was getting during the campaign — an increasing number of Trump’s allies are calling for Biden to have access to the information. “I just don’t know of any justification for withholding the briefing,” Texas…
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Trump: Israeli pacts with 2 Arab states signal ‘new’ Mideast
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WASHINGTON • Israel on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony that President Donald Trump declared will mark the “dawn of a new Middle East,” casting himself as an international peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign. The bilateral agreements formalize the normalization of Israel’s thawing…
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Trump: U.S. demands restoration of UN sanctions against Iran
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WASHINGTON • The United States will demand Thursday that United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, a move that follows America’s embarrassing failure to extend an arms embargo against Tehran. The administration’s insistence on snapping back international sanctions against Iran sets the stage for a contentious dispute. It’s possible that…
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Trump promises pardon for Susan B. Anthony
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa • Grappling for votes — and the spotlight — as Democrats hold their national convention, President Donald Trump targeted voters in key states and constituencies Tuesday and promised a pardon for Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the women’s suffrage movement. Trump headed for Arizona, one of the top 2020 battleground states,…
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Trump opposes postal money that would help vote-by-mail
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him the election. In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are…
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U.S. sanctions Chinese officials over repression of minorities
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WASHINGTON • The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three officials of the Chinese Communist Party, including a member of the ruling Politburo, for alleged human rights abuses targeting ethnic and religious minorities that China has detained in the western part of the country. The decision to bar these senior officials from entering the…
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Trump calls Mexico cherished friend
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WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump, who has denigrated Mexican migrants and threatened the U.S. ally with crippling tariffs, welcomed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the White House on Wednesday with lofty language and he called America’s southern neighbor a cherished partner. Trump said the countries’ economic and security relationship was reaching new heights. Trump’s…
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Trump vetoes measure to restrain his actions against Iran
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WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a resolution that said he must get a nod from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran. Trump called it “insulting” to the presidency. The nonbinding congressional resolution was introduced first in the House after the U.S. launched an airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem…
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Trump meets Russian official at White House
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WASHINGTON • The Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday was the second for Russia’s foreign minister. The president of Ukraine is still waiting for his first. Trump sat down with Sergey Lavrov at a moment of high drama in Washington — just hours after House Democrats announced articles of impeachment against Trump…
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At U.N., Trump attacks globalism and urges pressure on Iran
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UNITED NATIONS • President Donald Trump stood before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday and rejected “globalism” and liberal immigration policies while exhorting the world to act against Iran’s “bloodlust.” His speech before world leaders had to compete with news from Washington of a growing movement by Democrats to impeach him. Trump took aim at…