The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will soon require Chinese officials in the United States to notify the State Department before any contacts they plan to have with American educators, researchers, and local and state governments.
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The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving an American diplomat’s wife felt ambushed when President Trump tried to get them to meet with the woman in front of the press, attorneys for the couple said Wednesday.
Read moreThe White House is set to lose an ally Thursday as U.S. ambassador Gordon Sondland testifies before a congressional impeachment inquiry that he opposed President Donald Trump’s plan to use personal attorney Rudy Giuliani as his foreign-policy conduit in Ukraine.
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Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Turkey on Thursday to push President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in Syria, but Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey’s invasion — facilitated by the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria — would continue.
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A career diplomat testified behind closed doors Wednesday in the congressional impeachment probe, reportedly telling lawmakers that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brushed off his repeated requests that the department show support for an ousted ambassador.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were heading to Ankara on Wednesday to press Turkey to halt its offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters, President Trump said Tuesday.
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President Trump heralded a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks, and markets rallied in relief. But closer inspection suggests there isn’t much substance, yet, to the temporary truce Trump announced at the White House after the 13th round of trade talks.
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National security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel activities in Ukraine that he described President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up,” according to a former White House aide.
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A former member of President Donald Trump’s national-security team is testifying before the committees marshaling the House’s impeachment inquiry on Monday, beginning a whirlwind week of subpoena deadlines and testimony from people at the center of the probe.
Read moreA U.S. ambassador is expected to tell Congress that his text message reassuring another envoy that there was no quid pro quo in their interactions with Ukraine was based solely on what President Donald Trump told him, according to a person familiar with his upcoming testimony in the impeachment probe.
Read moreSpeaking during a deposition in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told House investigators Friday that she was forced out of her position in May after President Donald Trump pressured State Department officials to remove her.
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The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post after insisting that Rudy Giuliani’s requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her.
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Turkey summoned a top American diplomat Sunday after the U.S. Embassy’s official Twitter account “liked” a tweet that said the people of Turkey should prepare for a political era without the leader of Turkey’s national party, who is reportedly ill.
Read moreNorth Korea’s chief negotiator said that nuclear talks with the United States had broken down, but Washington claimed the two sides had “good discussions” in Sweden that it intends to build on in two weeks.
Read moreTwo top U.S. diplomats asked Ukraine’s new president in August to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family in exchange for a visit to meet President Donald Trump in Washington, according to a trove of emails released late Thursday.
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Ukraine’s former leader on Wednesday accused the current government of betraying the country’s interests, a day after it signed accords with Russia-backed separatists in the east.
Read moreA senior North Korean diplomat on Tuesday said North Korea and the United States have agreed to resume nuclear negotiations on Oct. 5 after a months-long stalemate over withdrawal of sanctions in exchange for disarmament.
Read moreChina’s top trade negotiator will lead an upcoming 13th round of talks aimed at resolving a trade war with the United States, a senior Chinese official said Sunday.
Read moreKurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a U.S. official.
Read moreSouth Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in a private briefing Tuesday that nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea will likely resume within two to three weeks, according to one of the lawmakers who attended the session.
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