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Chinese negotiators have also continued to insist that Mr. Trump lift the tariffs he has placed on $250 billion worth of goods more quickly than the administration wants. With the two sides still disagreeing over issues including how China subsidizes its companies, its restrictions on data transfers, its approvals of genetically modified seeds and rules […]

• Mr. Trump awarded Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The decision to honor Mr. Woods in the Rose Garden was the perfect way to reward someone who has supported Mr. Trump as other athletes distanced themselves from him. • The president is embracing a traditional campaign fund-raising

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular freshman Democrat from New York who is trying to use her star power to move the Democratic Party to the left, will headline a rally next week in Washington in favor of the Green New Deal, as she seeks to shore up support for the expansive climate legislation that has

At the Munich Security Conference in February, the face of the Trump administration was Vice President Mike Pence, who urged longstanding American allies to pull out of a denuclearization deal with Iran. When President Trump needed an emissary to describe his proposed tax overhaul in 2017, Mr. Pence was deployed to more than 50 events,

Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • President Trump said on Sunday that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, should not testify before Congress, arguing that Mr. Mueller’s report was conclusive and that Congress and the American people did not need to hear

JEJU, South Korea — When North Korea launched a volley of projectiles off its east coast on Saturday, it sought to escalate the pressure on President Trump to return to the negotiating table with a compromise on easing sanctions, analysts said, by signaling that it could scuttle his biggest diplomatic achievement with the North. Saturday’s

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday named Mark Morgan, a former Obama administration official who has aligned himself with some of Mr. Trump’s hard-line positions on border security, as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mr. Morgan served as the Border Patrol chief at the end of the Obama administration, and was also previously

Brexit minister James Cleverly has tried to play down Conservative expectations for the local elections. After nine years in government you would expect the party to “lose lots and lots of seats”, he told the BBC. “That’s the normal situation.” Mr Cleverly said Swindon was an area where Tory local councillors “work hard and deliver

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina residents gave former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. a front-runner’s welcome Saturday afternoon, when his recently announced presidential campaign made its first stop in the early primary state that will play a critical role in determining the Democratic presidential nominee. “We want Joe!” the crowd chanted, before Mr. Biden

Labour has lost about 80 seats to date, while the Conservatives have lost 450 seats and 19 English councils so far, many of them to the Liberal Democrats. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn gave his reaction to the results on a visit to Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, where the party won overall control. Polls took