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Trump hammers Federal Reserve chief Powell: ‘Termination cannot come fast enough!’

U.S. president lashes his central bank nemesis for not cutting interest rates fast enough.

April 17, 2025 1:21 pm CET

JD Vance: Europe can’t be a ‘permanent security vassal’ of the US

The American vice president concurs with French sentiment that the continent needs to be militarily independent. 

April 15, 2025 11:52 am CET

Zelenskyy jabs JD Vance for ‘justifying’ Russia’s war on Ukraine

“I believe, sadly, Russian narratives are prevailing in the U.S.,” the Ukrainian president tells 60 Minutes.

April 14, 2025 3:21 pm CET
Unpacked

Voters are the only ones who could stop Trump’s tariff game

Overall prices and mortgage rates will inevitably rise because of the president’s tariff imposition. And when they do, maybe then his MAGA base will start to erode.

April 14, 2025 4:00 am CET

Trump blinks on tariffs. Can Europe exhale?

Presented by Equinor.

April 11, 2025 6:06 am CET

The US brain drain has begun

The White House appears hell-bent on destroying not just economic and political paradigms, but a higher education system that really did make America great.

April 9, 2025 4:01 am CET

Donald Trump Jr. to visit Romania right before contentious election

Trump Jr. previously criticized a Romanian court for canceling the 2024 presidential election.

April 8, 2025 7:18 pm CET

Trump is on a quest to poison global political culture

Europe is at a turning point, where it can choose to reassert the ideals once pledged by the EU and confront the authoritarian brew emanating from U.S. If not now, when?

April 7, 2025 4:00 am CET

Trump compares global tariffs and market reaction to taking medicine

As stock futures tumbled Sunday, Trump doubled down on his tariff plans.

April 7, 2025 3:37 am CET

Starmer vows to ‘shelter British business from the storm’ of US tariffs

U.K. prime minister promises to “turbocharge” plans to improve the U.K.’s competitiveness this week.

April 6, 2025 12:10 pm CET

Jaguar Land Rover suspends shipments to US after Trump tariffs

The company, which exports almost a quarter of its production to the U.S., is pausing shipments in April as it works out longer-term solutions.

April 5, 2025 5:03 pm CET
Unpacked

How Trump cost America the world

Friend and foe alike will start piecing together a different global trade order that the U.S. might like a lot less than the one it trashed.

April 5, 2025 4:00 am CET
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World trade war escalates as China strikes all US imports with 34 percent tariff

Beijing’s counterattack against Donald Trump comes after Wednesday’s wide-ranging measures.

April 4, 2025 1:28 pm CET

‘FREE MARINE LE PEN!’ Trump lodges defense of convicted French far-right icon

U.S. president says the embezzlement case on which France’s right-wing figurehead was found guilty sounds “like a ‘bookkeeping’ error to me.”

April 4, 2025 9:57 am CET

Danish prime minister to the US: ‘You cannot annex another country’

“What are we to believe in about the country that we have admired for so many years?” Mette Frederiksen said Thursday on Trump’s Greenland threat.

April 3, 2025 10:26 pm CET

National security newbie Matthew Whitaker becomes US NATO envoy

His selection had surprised U.S. allies because the lawyer had no significant foreign policy experience.

April 2, 2025 6:23 am CET

Elon Musk slams Marine Le Pen guilty verdict as arch-conservatives unite in fury

Key adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump signals he will make the French far-right standard-bearer a new cause célèbre.

March 31, 2025 5:24 pm CET

Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course will not host world’s top championship

Governing body chief says Turnberry is a “challenging” venue — and implied Trump’s position as U.S. president might overshadow any tournament.

March 31, 2025 10:57 am CET

Trump doesn’t rule out military intervention in Greenland — again

U.S. president’s comments come on the heels of diplomatic tensions between Copenhagen and Washington.

March 30, 2025 12:32 pm CET

Ukraine and Russia do the Trump dance to shift blame for peace-talk problems

But there’s fear in Kyiv that the U.S. president doesn’t care and will lean toward Moscow.

March 28, 2025 2:18 pm CET
Declassified

Fear and loathing in a Signal group chat

European leaders have been planning how to respond to Pete Hegseth’s comments and we have proof (not really).

March 28, 2025 12:13 pm CET

Bessent opens door to Russian return to major international banking system

“I think this is premature to discuss the terms of a deal before we have a deal,” Bessent said.

March 27, 2025 6:00 am CET

Trump changes his tune on Signalgate: ‘I always thought it was Mike’

Some military and government officials have expressed concern about the contents of Hegseth’s messages saying he leaked sensitive attack details that were “reckless and dangerous.”

March 27, 2025 5:05 am CET

Danish PM to Greenlanders: ‘You have not been cowed’ by Trump

On the eve of a visit from JD Vance and other American officials, Denmark’s PM cautions Greenlanders that President Donald Trump’s interest in Greenland “is not going away.”

March 27, 2025 4:51 am CET
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