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Trump and Xi may meet 4 times in the next 8 months as Air Force One heads to Beijing

"Xi has a much better understanding of Trump" than their first meeting," said the Crisis Group's Ali Wyne, senior U.S.-China research and advocacy...

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China may not offer breakthroughs when Trump meets Xi because Beijing is ‘working backward from our midterm elections’

Trump could meet with China's leader four times in eight months.

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Trump tips $100 to DoorDash driver who dropped off 2 McDonald’s bags at White House

President Donald Trump had two bags of McDonald’s delivered to the Oval Office on Monday by a DoorDash driver he tipped $100, using his favorite...

14.04.2026 8

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Trump refuses to apologize to the Pope, offers implausible explanation for tweeting himself as Jesus

“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and it had to do with the Red Cross,” Trump said about the image of him as Jesus.

13.04.2026 9

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Under attack from Trump, Pope says the president doesn’t understand ‘the message of the Gospel’

Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo X, calling him "a very liberal person" who was "catering to the Radical Left.”

13.04.2026 9

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The cease-fire that wasn’t: Here’s why Trump and Iran never really agreed to the same terms

Hours after Pete Hegseth said the strait was open, Iran announced that the strait was closing again in response to Israel's strikes in Lebanon.

09.04.2026 3

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As Iran war knocks Trump back on his political heels, he lashes out a news coverage while taking flak from top MAGA figures

Meanwhile, Moscow is getting a boost from the war's early days after Trump eased sanctions on some Russian oil shipments.

15.03.2026 10

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Trump says Cuba has ‘no money’ and ‘maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover’

"The Cuban government is talking with us,” the president said to reporters outside the White House.

28.02.2026 10

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Days after his biggest defeat, Trump tells America ‘we’re winning so much’

President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an...

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Trump limits DHS intervention during protests in Democratic cities, but ICE and Border Patrol will be ‘very forceful’ protecting federal property

“If they want help, they have to ask for it. Because if we go in, all they do is complain,” Trump said.

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This is the next Trump construction project, joining the White House ballroom, Rose Garden replacement and others

The Courses at Andrews — inside the secure confines of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland — are known as the “president's golf course."

03.01.2026 10

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Trump warns U.S. will ‘knock the hell out of’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities if it’s rebuilding them amid Israeli concerns about long-range missiles

"We'll knock them down. We'll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that’s not happening.”

30.12.2025 10

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Trump says Ukraine and Russia are ‘closer than ever’ to peace after talking to Zelenskyy and Putin

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,” Trump said during a late afternoon news conference following a meeting with Zelenskyy, whom he repeatedly...

29.12.2025 10

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Ahead of meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy says ‘Ukraine is willing to do whatever it takes to stop this war’

Zelenskyy said the two planned to discuss security and economic agreements and he will raise “territorial issues.”

28.12.2025 10

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U.S. launches strikes against Islamic State group in Nigeria after attacks target Christians

A Defense Department official said the U.S. worked with Nigeria to carry out the strikes and that they'd been approved by Abuja.

26.12.2025 20

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Trump finally meets Claudia Sheinbaum face to face at the FIFA World Cup draw

A senior White House official said Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney met privately after participating in the draw.

06.12.2025 10

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Bescarfed Trump tells reporters that Jack Nicklaus will ‘do some work’ on longtime presidential golf course

“We’re doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs. We’re gonna try and reinstitute the golf courses. I’m meeting with the greatest Jack Nicklaus."

23.11.2025 10

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Trump enlists Jack Nicklaus to help revamp the ‘president’s golf course’ — raising questions about who will pay the golf legend and how much

Nicklaus “will be the architect" and "design it,” Trump told reporters.

23.11.2025 10

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Trump isn’t canceling travel, golf, or his ballroom, even with the government shuttered and 750,000 furloughed federal employees

Only 32% of the staff in the Executive Office of the President were set to be furloughed during the current shutdown, according to data from the White...

30.10.2025 9

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Ontario quickly caves to Trump and promises to pull the offending Reagan ad that killed Canada trade talks

Days before he called the ad fraudulent, Trump told a group of Republican senators that he'd take out the same ad if he were Canadian.

24.10.2025 10

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Trump says he’ll meet Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss Ukraine war’s end and predicts ‘some swapping of territories’

Prior to his announcing the meeting with Putin, Trump’s efforts to pressure Russia into stopping the fighting have so far delivered no progress.

09.08.2025 10

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Are college athletes employees of their schools? Trump signs executive order asking labor authorities to figure it out

Trump directed the secretary of labor and the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of collegiate athletes through guidance or rules.

25.07.2025 10

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Coke tight-lipped on Trump’s promise to make American Coke with real sugar again

In 2012, Trump suggested diet soda might be connected to weight gain before writing, “The Coca Cola company is not happy with me — that’s okay,...

17.07.2025 9

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Trump holds court on presidential portraits, pretty picture frames and FDR, ‘an amazing man’

Of his time in "the vaults," Trump says, “sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures." He's a fan of Polk, "sort of a real-estate guy."

10.07.2025 10

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Trump says new executive order limiting drug costs to what other countries pay will cut prices 30%-80% ‘immediately’

Only drugs on Medicare Part B — the insurance for doctor's office visits — are likely to be covered under the plan.

12.05.2025 10

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Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?

The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that Guantanamo detainees had a constitutional right to habeas corpus, allowing them to challenge their detention...

11.05.2025 10

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Trump is about to undergo his annual physical but if history is a guide he will release few details about his health

Trump has routinely kept basic facts about his own health shrouded in secrecy — shying away from traditional presidential transparency on medical...

11.04.2025 10

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Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland and see its national dogsled race as Trump talks up US takeover

Vance and one of her three children will be part of a U.S. delegation set to “visit historical sites, learn about Greenlandic heritage," and attend...

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Trump says William McKinley ‘made our country very rich through tariffs.’ But the 25th president changed his mind on tariffs after realizing ‘friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals’

"People did not regard this as a particularly healthy economy,” one historian said about the Gilded Age.

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Trump offers mixed praise on Elon Musk — ‘seriously high IQ individual’ who has his faults

The president and the Tesla CEO weren't always friends.

20.02.2025 10

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Trump warns ‘great friend’ Modi of higher reciprocal U.S. tariffs: ‘Whatever India charges, we charge them’

Trump, who had previously derided India as the “tariff king,” called the import levies imposed by Modi's country “very unfair and strong.”

14.02.2025 20

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