WASHINGTON — President Trump warned China on Tuesday that if President Xi Jinping failed to make good on the trade promises reached during their weekend meeting, the United States would impose additional tariffs on Chinese imports. Referring to himself as a “Tariff Man,” Mr. Trump issued a series of tweets that only further deepened the […]
Toronto city council will meet for the first time on Tuesday, and it will be a smaller governing body since the new four-year term began on Saturday. Tuesday afternoon’s meeting will be largely ceremonial. Mayor John Tory will make a speech to mark the beginning of the term. Tory and 25 councillors will take their […]
WASHINGTON — The tributes to former President George Bush in recent days have focused on his essential decency and civility, and his embrace of others, including even his onetime opponents. But the “last gentleman,” as he has been called, was not always so gentle. Mr. Bush’s successful campaign for the presidency in 1988 was marked […]
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers on Monday filed a two-week stopgap spending bill that would ensure that the government remains fully funded as the nation mourns former President George Bush this week. The measure, which includes funding for the Homeland Security and Interior Departments and other federal agencies, would push a showdown over funding for a […]
The dinner table diplomacy that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China conducted over the weekend produced something as vague as it was valuable: an agreement to keep talking. Forged over grilled sirloin at the Group of 20 summit Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the ceasefire Trump and Xi agreed to Saturday night illustrated […]
Sajid Javid has said the attack on Jamal reminded him of racist abuse he received at school. The Home Secretary spoke about the shocking video which was widely shared of the Syrian refugee. But said that for him it provoked a very personal response. "To be frank it reminded me of an incident I had […]
WASHINGTON — Just weeks after a bitterly fought election swept Democrats into power in Congress, a Republican president known for reaching across the aisle passed away. Leaders of both parties paid tribute to his civility and bipartisanship, saying the country could use more of that. And then within days of the burial, they went back […]
In an unsettled country with a deadlocked Parliament, another referendum is also Theresa May’s best Brexit option. Her Tory enemies and the Labour leadership will race to pass votes of no confidence in a humiliated Prime Minister after the now inevitable crushing defeat in the House of Commons on December 11. By rights she should […]
U.S. President Donald Trump wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to know that he likes him and will fulfill his wishes, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Sunday, a day after meeting the U.S. president at an economic summit in Argentina. Moon, who is hoping to host Kim soon on the first ever […]
WASHINGTON — With a brutal finality, the extent of the Republicans’ collapse in the House came into focus last week as more races slipped away from them and their losses neared 40 seats. Yet nearly a month after the election, there has been little self-examination among Republicans about why a midterm that had seemed at […]