A federal judge on Thursday issued a two-week restraining order blocking the Mr.Trump administration from moving forward on an effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors.
Amid expectations in Moscow that President Donald Trump will speak by phone in the coming days with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials are staking out hard-line positions on the Ukraine war ahead of any talks and playing down any imminent major breakthrough on U.S.-Russia ties.
President Donald Trump signaled early plans to use tariffs on imported goods as a key weapon in relations with the United States’ three top trading partners, saying the first new taxes on foreign products could be announced February,1,2025.
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned for office depicting the U.S.-Mexico border as an out-of-control disaster, even as illegal crossings fell steadily throughout 2024 and are now lower than when he left office four years ago. On Monday, Trump and his team will inherit the U.S. immigration system as it really exists, rather than the one he has often caricatured.
Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, nearly four years to the day from when then-President Donald Trump, in one of his own last acts in office, put Havana back on the list.
President-elect Mr.Donald Trump’s fixation on expanding the nation’s territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada has foreign leaders weighing a familiar, but famously difficult, question: Should they take him seriously?
