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The two men are to hold a formal meeting later today, when their body language is likely to be closely analysed US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a veteran businessman and a former spy, shook hands on Friday ahead of the most highly anticipated face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit . Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine, and allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
Texas' new voter identification law fully absolves the state from discriminating against minority voters in 2011, and courts should not take further action in a battle over the state's old voter ID law, President Donald Trump's Department of Justice argued in a legal filing Wednesday . "Texas's voter ID law both guarantees to Texas voters the opportunity to cast an in-person ballot and protects the integrity of Texas's elections," the filing stated.
President Donald Trump finally sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday, and though the square knot-shaped logos decorating this German port city say this is the G-20, the U.S.-Russian summit on the sidelines is the meeting that has the world holding its breath. Syria, Ukraine and the war on terror will no doubt come out when the two presidents hold their first face-to-face encounter, a 35-minute chat set for Friday afternoon against the backdrop of antiglobalist protests.
After weeks of build-up, President Donald Trump will hold his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a sit-down that will be shadowed by the investigations into whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Moscow during last year's presidential election. The leaders are expected to delve into a series of vexing foreign policy issues, including the conflict in Syria and Russia's provocations in Ukraine.
The Kremlin says that President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have exchanged a handshake and a few words ahead of their sit-down at the G-20 summit. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin and Trump "shook hands and told each other that they will shortly have a separate meeting."
President Donald J. Trump, left center, listens to Polish President Andrzej Duda, right center, on Thursday during a meeting in Warsaw. Trump on Friday laid into the DNC and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chief over their handling of email hacking.
After weeks of build-up, President Donald Trump will hold his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a sit-down that will be shadowed by the investigations into whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Moscow during last year's presidential election. The leaders are expected to delve into a series of vexing foreign policy issues, including the conflict in Syria and Russia's provocations in Ukraine.
Ahead of a crucial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump stopped short Thursday of condemning Moscow for meddling in the U.S. presidential election - and refused to say if he would raise the issue when the leaders go behind closed doors. Yet in a speech to a friendly crowd of thousands who chanted his name in downtown Warsaw, Trump sought to demonstrate that he wasn't overlooking Russian behavior that has sparked global concern, especially from Poland and other eastern and central European nations.
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to size each other up in person for the first time on Friday in what promises to be the most highly anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine, and allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
US President Donald Trump meets Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the first time today, in an eagerly awaited encounter at a G20 summit marked by the growing divide between America and its Western allies. On the eve of a face-off that carries consequences for world crises including the wars in Syria and Ukraine, Trump set the tone Thursday with a strong attack against Moscow for its "destabilising" actions.
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in person for the first time today in what promises to be the most highly anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. On the eve of the summit 76 police officers were hurt in clashes with protesters , with mass rallies again expected to take place today.
President Donald Trump is set to meet Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany - a full, bilateral sit-down with high stakes. The meeting will take place amid crumbling US-Russia relations, and as the president weathers multiple congressional and FBI investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign played a possible role in it.
There's no secret about which of the two American presidents German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting Thursday that she likes the most. On a day of odd political coincidences, Merkel sat down with one President she calls a friend and with whom she shares a political wavelength -- Barack Obama, and another, with whom she has had a frosty start -- Donald Trump.
Walter Shaub Jr, director of the US Office of Government Ethics , announced on Thursday he would resign, following a rocky relationship with President Donald Trump and repeated confrontations with the administration. Shaub, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013, had unsuccessfully pressed Trump to divest his business interests to avoid potential conflicts of interest, something Trump refused to do.
The government ethics director who prodded President Donald Trump's administration over conflicts of interest is resigning to take a new job. Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, is joining the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit in Washington that mostly focuses on violations of campaign finance law.
Madeleine Westerhout became a familiar face in late 2016, when she was frequently photographed guiding then president-elect Donald Trump's guests - such as Rick Perry, Mitch McConnell, and Goldman Sach's Gary Cohn - through the lobby of Trump Tower. While some media outlets dubbed her the " elevator girl ," Westerhout was quickly establishing her role within the Trump transition team.
On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump questioned the veracity of American intelligence about foreign meddling in the U.S. election, arguing Thursday that Russia wasn't the only country that may have interfered. Opening his second overseas trip as president, Trump also warned North Korea that he's considering "some pretty severe things" in response to the isolated nation's unprecedented launch of a missile capable of reaching the U.S. Though he declined to offer specifics on the U.S. response, Trump called on all nations to confront the North's "very, very bad behavior."
President Donald Trump has pledged that the United States will never use energy to coerce eastern and central European nations. Trump was addressing a meeting in Warsaw, Poland, of the Three Seas Initiative.