President Donald Trump, citing “our nation’s fiscal situation,” announced that a pay boost for civilian federal employees that was to begin in January won’t go into effect. Under the current law, federal employees would have gotten an across-the-board increase of 2.1 percent starting in January 2019. Employees who also get an adjustment based on their […]

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced a “historic” number of grants for community drug-prevention coalitions, at a White House roundtable about the dangers of youth substance abuse. Speaking in the Roosevelt Room on Aug. 29, the president said that $90.9 million would be shared by 731 local anti-drug groups, the most since the Drug-Free Communities Act was […]

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that White House counsel Don McGahn will leave his post in the fall, after he shepherds the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. McGahn has been working to appoint judges, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, to federal courts. Last year, he helped fill a record 12 […]

Stephen Moore, the distinguished visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Project for Economic Growth, sat down with NTD, part of the Epoch Media Group, to discuss the trade war with China. NTD: At a public hearing held by the United States International Trade Commission on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods, companies testified that they […]

BEIJING/WASHINGTON—The United States and China escalated their acrimonious trade war on Aug. 23, implementing punitive 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other’s goods, even as mid-level officials from both sides resumed talks in Washington. The world’s two largest economies have now slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on a combined $100 billion of products since […]

Michael Cohen, formerly an attorney for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Aug. 21 to campaign finance charges that are not crimes, according to former Federal Elections Commission chair Bradley Smith. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges in a Manhattan court to charges of tax evasion, making false statements to banks, and campaign finance violations. […]

First lady Melania Trump announced that she is planning to visit Africa. She told AP in a statement on Aug. 20, that she will visit several African countries in October. “This will be my first time traveling to Africa and I am excited to educate myself on the issues facing children throughout the continent, while […]

The Trump administration is replacing Obama-era regulations on power-plant emissions with a new rule that hands power to the states and scraps restrictions aimed at eliminating coal as an energy source. The acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, signed a proposal on Aug. 21 that would replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which […]

News Analysis America’s largest socialist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), recruited tens of thousands of young people during the presidential campaign through the Bernie Sanders movement. Recently, their membership has been given another boost in the wake of DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory over New York Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in June. […]

Commentary The mainstream media has spent two years relentlessly pushing the narrative that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with shady Russians to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton and then cheated with the Russian government to steal the election from her. That’s not what happened. What actually happened was that the Clinton campaign paid a political […]

The purple heart is a simple symbol but its underlying meaning runs deep. Every year on Aug. 7 the purple heart medal is presented to military men and women who were injured or killed while serving the United States, to honor their service and sacrifice. For the 236th anniversary of Purple Heart Day, President Donald Trump released […]

China and its roughly 1.4 billion citizens are the world’s biggest consumer of power. As the nation’s energy consumption grows, Beijing is anxious to develop alternative sources. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted that China will overtake the United States as the biggest nuclear-energy producer by 2030. China’s nuclear ambitions have now extended beyond […]

As the U.S.–China trade war heats up, U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have met in Washington and signed a trade agreement on July 25 that could further tip the balance to Beijing’s disadvantage. Per the deal, the United States will suspend further tariffs on the EU, including a proposed 25 […]

China and Russia have long been strategic partners. But the partnership shows signs of fraying, after the recent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. In a rare move, Russian media, still heavily controlled by the state, recently openly criticized China on multiple fronts. On July 16, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a Russian […]

President Donald Trump, during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, questioned what happened to three servers that were key evidence in cases investigated by the FBI. The three servers are those of the Democratic National Committee, the House Democratic Caucus, and Hillary Clinton—the private email server she used while serving as secretary […]

BERLIN—Chinese individuals contacted a conservative lawmaker in the German parliament several times in the summer of 2016, offering him money in exchange for his expertise and insider knowledge, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on July 6. The newspaper said the German Bfv domestic intelligence agency had warned the lawmaker shortly before he was to travel […]

About a week before U.S. tariffs on a list of Chinese goods worth $34 billion became effective on July 6, the Chinese authorities announced that it would ease restrictions on foreign investments in certain industries. On June 28, China’s National Development and Reform Commission released a revised list of sectors in which foreign investment is limited […]

A Chinese court has temporarily halted a U.S. memory chip maker from selling its semiconductor products in China, a move that could further intensify the ongoing trade dispute between Beijing and Washington. The Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court, located in southern China’s Fujian Province, issued a preliminary sales injunction against Micron, the world’s largest manufacturer of […]

While U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump are in a dispute over how to penalize Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for its shady practices, the company’s impact on U.S. consumers, especially small businesses, has already been under scrutiny at a congressional committee hearing. On June 27, the House Select Committee on Small Business held a hearing on […]