WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to visit China this year or shortly afterwards, noting that economic ties between the two countries have improved -- even as he kept the door open to steeper tariffs. Speaking to reporters as he met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Washington, Trump pointed to recent talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping: "At some point, probably during this year or shortly thereafter, we'll go to China." "We're going to have a great relationship with China," Trump vowed. The US leader added: "They have some cards. We have incredible cards, but I don't want to play those cards. If I played those cards, that would...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump is famed as a political showman -- and during a record-breaking three hour and 16...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The European Commission Tuesday asserted the "sovereign right" to regulate the activities of tech giants within the bloc...
GENEVA, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The UN insisted Tuesday that Israel must not only investigate alleged unlawful killings in Gaza like the hospital strike...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - President Donald Trump on Monday announced new measures that tightened his grip on security in Washington, a day after...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Neighbors, volunteers and parents escorted children to the first day of the new school year across Washington on Monday,...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Monday he had talked to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin since meeting in Washington last...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - North Korea could soon produce 10 to 20 nuclear weapons per year, South Korea's dovish new president said Monday,...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that customs duty revenues from President Donald Trump's tariffs may top $500 billion a year, with a...
US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged improprieties in obtaining mortgage loans, an unprecedented step...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit to prevent President Donald Trump from firing her, a lawyer for the embattled central bank official...