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On his most grueling and consequential trip abroad, President Donald Trump stands ready to exhort Asian allies and rivals on the need to counter the dangers posed by North Korea's nuclear threat. The 12-day, five-country trip, the longest Far East itinerary for a president in a generation, comes at a precarious moment for Trump.
In this Jan. 19, 2017, file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump and family wave at the conclusion of the pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow engaged in cybermeddling to help get Donald Trump elected, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers who may have been operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.
Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York City, Dec. 16, 2016. Cohen acknowledged, Aug. 28, 2017, that the president's company considered building a Trump Tower in Moscow during the Republican primary, but that the plan was abandoned "for a variety of business reasons."
Donald Trump is the founder and owner of the privately owned Trump Organization , an international conglomerate based in New York City. Trump hires thousands of foreign workers at approximately 500 business entities of which Donald Trump is the sole or principal owner.
Developer 601W Companies and Mayor Emanuel are taking the wraps off of the Old Main Post Office renovation this afternoon by revealing new renderings and more details on the $600 million project. While the renovation of the hulking 2.8 million square foot building has been underway for about a year , today signals the beginning of a major marketing push to attract interest and leases for future office tenants.
Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization. Jacob Biba/The New York Times Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization.
A top executive from Donald Trump's real estate company emailed Russian President VladiA mir Putin's personal spokesman during the U.S. presidential campaign last year to ask for help advancing a stalled Trump Tower development project in Moscow, according to documents submitted to Congress on Monday. The request came in a mid-January 2016 email from Michael Cohen, one of Trump's closest business advisers, who asked longtime Putin lieutenant Dmitry Peskov for assistance in reviving a deal that Cohen suggested was languishing.
As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested he could get President Vladimir Putin to say "great things" about Trump, according to several people who have been briefed on his correspondence. President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's proposal to charge developers fees to help pay for affordable housing got a boost Tuesday with the unanimous endorsement of the City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee. The "linkage fee" would bring in an estimated at $75 million to $92 million per year, enough to help pay for the construction of 1,500 new units annually for residents with lower incomes, according to the city planning department.
A total retreat tucked away in Calabasas 's Monte Nido neighborhood, this 1966 home by architect Douglas Rucker offers the perks of a midcentury post and beam house in perhaps the most serene setting possible. The three-bedroom house is set on over three-quarters of an acre of land, with a stream cutting through it.
Senior communications adviser Hope Hicks will likely take on the role of White House communications director, according to two sources inside the White House and one outside. Earlier this month, a White House official told CNN there were internal discussions that Stephen Miller, a senior adviser on policy, could be considered for an elevated communications role in addition to his current position.
President Donald Trump has embraced legislation that would dramatically reduce legal immigration and shift the nation toward a system that prioritizes merit and skills over family ties. Trump joined with Republican Sens. David Perdue of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas to promote the bill, which so far has gained little traction in the Senate.
In April 2016, as Donald Trump was on the cusp of clinching the Republican nomination for the White House, he sold two luxury condos near Manhattan's Central Park for less than half the price his company had said they were worth. The lucky buyer: Trump's son, Eric.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the U.S. official who oversees the lease of his signature Washington hotel offered Trump's company an assessment of a report about its potential conflict of interest: "Nonsense." cleared Trump's company to keep its lease for the Trump International Hotel Washington DC.
President Donald Trump's Washington hotel saw almost $20 million in revenue during its first few months of operation - a period that coincided with his election and inauguration as the 45th president. His Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which he's visited seven times as president, pulled in millions of dollars more than it had previously.
President Donald Trump retains control of assets that as of April 15 were worth at least $1.4 billion and had generated nearly $600 million in gross revenues in the previous 151/2 months, according to a new financial disclosure released Friday. The report, which the president voluntarily filed with the Office of Government Ethics, underscores the unprecedented financial interests Trump has brought with him to the Oval Office, an arrangement that has generated sharp criticism and spurred legal challenges.
The inventory gains added to market worries about crude supplies, despite the recent agreement among OPEC and other oil producing nations extend output cuts of 1.8 million barrels a day into next year. Since OPEC announced the extension of production cuts, the market has continued to react bearishly with respect to the oil price.
Agency officials told ABC the attempted hacking prompted a meeting with the FBI, CIA, and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who run the president's billion-dollar real estate and licensing business with sister Ivanka Trump. Eric vehemently denied any hack occurred, insisting that any attempted cyberattack on the president's lucrative business was an impossibility.
In January, Donald Trump and his lawyer Sheri Dillon held a press conference at which they laid out a plan for how the president would distance himself from his businesses. Among the steps they presented was a means to address concerns that foreign governments and leaders may attempt to curry favor with the president by staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. This, ethics experts said , would violate the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which states that government officials cannot "accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Dubai and met a billionaire business partner in the city-state, discussing "new ideas" as the Emirati's real estate firm still lists possible plans for future joint projects while Trump's father is in the White House. The Trump Organization has said it won't make new foreign deals while Donald Trump serves as America's 45th president.