China stands with U.S. in showdown with China over detention of Huawei CFO

Wednesday's Cabinet meeting at the White House stood out with its opening prayer and President Donald Trump's freewheeling exchanges with reporters in which hard truths were confronted, not avoided

During his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump said: "Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens."

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a stop-work order on a contract awarded by the Biden-Harris administration to a biotech company for the production of a new Covid vaccine.

Another major country has flipped politically to the conservative column. After three years of a drifting center-Left coalition government, voters elected the conservative (small c)  Christian Democratic Union CDU in Germany’s parliamentary elections. Yet what was expected to be a massive win for the likely new Chancellor Frederich Merz, became a bit disappointing when his party gained 28.5 percent of the vote.