Tracy Wilkinson

Jared Kushner in the White House on Aug. 11.

Kushner heads to Israel for latest attempt at peace deal

August 22, 2019 at 5:36 a.m.

President Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner arrives in Israel on Wednesday in the latest U.S. effort to revive long-stalled Middle East peace talks, but at a time when progress...

Empty State Department sapping morale, some staffers say: ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

August 22, 2019 at 5:23 a.m.

For four years, Ira N. Forman served as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a State Department post in which he advocated on behalf of Jewish communities...

Trump’s troubles over Russia follow him to France

August 22, 2019 at 5:07 a.m.

President Trump arrives in Paris on Thursday for a hastily planned visit to meet with France's new, young president and attend Bastille Day celebrations, his first public appearances after four...

President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.

Trump, meeting with Mexican president, again insists Mexico will pay for the wall

August 22, 2019 at 5:03 a.m.

In his first meeting as president with his Mexican counterpart, Donald Trump on Friday said he "absolutely" intends for Mexico to pay for the controversial wall he wants to build...

Does Trump’s ‘America first’ policy cede U.S. global authority?

August 22, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

President Trump's evolving foreign policy stresses that U.S. interests come first. His manner of seeing to that, however, is having mixed and perhaps counterproductive results. Trump's focus on "America first"...

President Donald Trump meets with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt in the Oval Office of the White House on April 3, 2017.

Why Trump is reaching out and even praising ruthless dictators: It’s strategy

August 22, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

President Trump says he'd be "honored" to meet the North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. Egypt's president, who allowed his opponents to be shot, is doing a "fantastic job." The...

Turkish experts evacuate a victim of a suspected chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli on April 4, 2017.

White House and Russia trade heated charges over poison gas attack in Syria

August 22, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

The White House and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged heated charges Tuesday over last week's poison gas attack in Syria, stoking fresh tensions as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London last month.

Netanyahu may seek to reset U.S.-Israel relations in meeting with Trump

August 22, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington on Tuesday hoping to find in President Trump a kindred spirit and compliant ally after eight years of personal friction with President...

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2017. Also pictured, from left, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

Trump, Putin have first official phone conversation amid European anxiety about future relations

August 22, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

President Trump made a flurry of phone calls to world leaders Saturday as he began shaping his new administration's foreign policy, but none was as anxiously anticipated as the first...

Then-candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomed British politician and Brexit architect Nigel Farage at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss., last summer. Farage called Trump's campaign a "revolution."

Trump worries European allies before inauguration

August 22, 2019 at 2:46 a.m.

Even before he enters the White House on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that his foreign policy could include a diminished Europe and an unfettered Russia, creating deep unease...

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