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  • U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Richard Drew/AP)
    Trump attacks globalism and urges pressure on Iran at UN

    President Donald Trump stood before world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday and rejected “globalism” and liberal immigration policies while exhorting the world to act against Iran’s “bloodlust.” His speech and subsequent meetings had to compete with news from Washington that the House is moving forward with an impeachment inquiry.

  • An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Elis Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico, past Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (Cliff Owen/AP)
    Pompeo: Taliban ‘overreached’ in attack that killed American service member

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that Taliban “overreached” with their car bomb attack in a diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, killing an American soldier — and that led President Donald Trump to pull back from planned Afghanistan peace talks at Camp David.

  • Marine One carrying President Donald Trump approaches for a landing on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept, 1, 2019, from Camp David near Thurmont, Md. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House)
    Trump calls off secret Camp David meeting with Taliban, Afghan leaders

    President Donald Trump said Saturday he canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing in the past week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group.

  • President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28. (Susan Walsh/AP)
    Trump won’t impose foreign uranium quotas

    Just 5 percent of the uranium the U.S. needs for military and electricity generation comes from domestic production. Russia and other countries supply the rest.

  • President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)
    Trump, making history, steps into North Korea

    What was intended to be an impromptu exchange of pleasantries turned into a 50-minute meeting, another historic first in the yearlong rapprochement between the two technically warring nations.

  • President Donald Trump speaks during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, England Wednesday, June 5, 2019. World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump are gathering Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Matt Dunham/AP)
    Trump reads from FDR’s prayer to the US on D-Day

    Trump, with images of an American flag and Roosevelt projected behind him, read to crowd: “Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation, this day, have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity.”

  • In this Sept. 17, 2018 file photo, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters. (Richard Drew/AP)
    UN Ambassador Haley resigning in latest Trump shake-up

    It's the latest shake-up in the turbulent Trump administration just weeks before the November midterm election.

  • President Donald Trump speaks with the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley on Sept. 24, 2018, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP)
    At UN, Trump says 2nd summit with North Korea likely ‘quite soon’

    Confronting the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear threat, President Donald Trump arrived at the United Nations on Monday striking a far less ominous tone than a year ago, announcing he likely will hold a second summit with Kim Jong Un “quite soon.”

  • U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of the press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
    Trump questions US intel, not Putin, on Russia 2016 meddling

    Standing next to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' conclusions that Moscow was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to Trump’s benefit and seemed to accept Putin’s insistence that Russia’s hands were clean.