Author: Jill Colvin
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Trump weighs plan to oust Tillerson, put CIA’s boss at State
WASHINGTON — After months of clashes on policy and personality, President Donald Trump is considering ousting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replacing him with hard-nosed CIA Director Mike Pompeo following less than a year on the job, senior U.S. officials said Thursday as turmoil within Trump’s national security team burst into the open. The…
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Trump tells troops ‘We’re winning’ against foes
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump thanked U.S. troops for their service on Thursday, assuring them “we’re really winning” against America’s foes as he celebrated Thanksgiving at his private club in Florida and provided lunch for Coast Guard men and women on duty for the holiday. Using the occasion to talk up his own leadership, Trump told deployed…
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Trump calls father of freed UCLA player an ‘ungrateful fool’
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump started off his first day of Thanksgiving vacation Wednesday by resuming his taunts of the father of a UCLA basketball player detained for shoplifting in China, calling him an “ungrateful fool.” In a series of tweets fired off before dawn, the president complained yet again that LaVar Ball,…
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Trump: ‘I’m with our agencies’ on Russian election meddling
HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump on Sunday said he believes U.S. intelligence agencies, which have concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But Trump also said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is sincere when he says Russia didn’t interfere. “I believe that he feels that he and Russia did not…
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Trump calls Putin sincere, ex-US intelligence heads ‘hacks’
HANOI, Vietnam — Days before returning home from a whirlwind trip to Asia, President Donald Trump was back on the defensive over Russian election meddling, saying he considers President Vladimir Putin’s denials sincere, dismissing former U.S. intelligence officials as “hacks” and accusing Democrats of trying to sabotage relations between the two countries. Speaking to reporters…
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Trump says US will no longer be taken advantage of on trade
DANANG, Vietnam — Promising to put “America first” in his trade practices, President Donald Trump used a speech in Vietnam Friday to denounce multi-nation agreements embraced by the region and deliver what appeared to be a rebuke to China, railing against trade practices he says have put Americans out of work. “From this day forward…
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Trump says US will arm Japan to knock down Korea missiles
TOKYO — President Donald Trump on Monday refused to rule out eventual military action against North Korea and declared that the United States “will not stand” for Pyongyang menacing America or its allies. In his first stop of an extended trip in Asia, Trump stood with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a news conference and suggested…
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Trump calls church shooting “act of evil”
TOKYO — President Donald Trump says a Texas church shooting that left 26 dead was an “act of evil” and promised his administration’s full support to the investigation. Speaking to U.S. and Japanese business leaders in Tokyo on Monday during his Asian trip, Trump expressed his sorrow over what he called a “horrific shooting” at…
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Trump declares opioids a public health emergency
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency — a step that won’t bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills nearly 100 Americans a day but will expand access to medical services in rural areas, among other changes. “This epidemic is a national health emergency,”…
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Trump tweets that 401(k) tax incentives ‘safe’ in tax plan
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised Monday there will be “no change” to tax incentives for the popular 401 (k) retirement programs. “This has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works, and it stays!” Trump tweeted. The president appeared to be responding to a recent report in The New York Times…