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The leader of the Democratic Party in the United States Senate is baffled that President Donald Trump has not prepared a specific agenda for Friday's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit. To remedy Trump's lack of planning, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the president's favorite information platform - Twitter, of course - to brief the leader of the free world prior to the bilateral meeting with the Russian strongman.
During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "strong leader" with whom he would like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations. But as Trump heads to his first face-to-face meeting as president with Putin on Friday at the G20 summit in Germany, he is under pressure at home to take a tough line with the Kremlin.
President Donald Trump's twitter tirade against MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski last week revealed more than his continued willingness to demean his office - and women. He lambasted Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe, as "low I.Q., Crazy Mika" claiming she'd been "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when she briefly attended a social gathering at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve.
President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., July 3, 2017, en route to Washington from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. President Trump will experience the most crucial diplomatic test of his presidency when he sits down Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday at the G-20 Summit. It couldn't come at a more politically or diplomatically sensitive moment for both leaders.
A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump will take place on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov as saying. The two leaders' first meeting is highly anticipated, coming as investigations continue into possible collusion between members of Trump's presidential campaign and Russian officials and as relations between Moscow and Washington are being described as at their worst since the Cold War.
In this May 10, 2017, file photo, Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak arrives at the White House in Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump. The United States and Russia worked July 3, to restore a key diplomatic channel between the two clashing nations, days before President Donald Trump planned to hold his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Poland's government would like visiting President Donald Trump to make assurances this week that the presence of U.S. and NATO troops in Poland will continue as long as the region's security is threatened by Russia, the foreign minister said Monday. Trump is to deliver a speech in Warsaw during a brief visit Thursday.
Back when Poland was part of the Soviet bloc, the Communist Party would bus people into Warsaw from the provinces to ensure there was a compliant crowd to welcome high-level visitors from Moscow. Now with President Donald Trump heading to Poland this week for a day-long state visit, the country's right-wing government is tapping the old playbook.
Hidden in the usual holiday weekend news dump was the New York Times admission that it had misstated facts. In stories since January and as recently as Monday, the Times has incorrectly reported intelligence agencies' determination that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
US President Donald Trump heads into his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with one question looming large: how much is he willing to confront the man whose meddling in the 2016 election may have helped him win? The encounter scheduled for the sidelines of next week's G-20 summit in Germany comes amid a widening US federal investigation into possible collusion between Trump associates and the Russian government. Trump last week gave a rare explicit acknowledgment of the Kremlin-directed effort to disrupt the US presidential campaign.
ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMP likes to rely on his instincts, this week's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, Germany, calls for careful preparation and straight talk. Mr. Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told reporters that "we have no specific agenda" and "it's whatever the president wants to talk about."
It's been a remarkably turbulent first year for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose war on drugs has left thousands of suspects dead and prompted critics to call his rule a "human rights calamity." One accused him of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court.
Judging by a just-released poll from the Pew Research Center, President Donald Trump is heading to next week's G-20 meeting in Germany with a resounding global vote of no confidence. Only 22 percent of more than 40,000 respondents from 37 countries had confidence in Trump doing the right thing regarding world affairs; 64 percent felt that way about Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
The House and Senate are still at odds over a Russia sanctions bill that passed in the Senate last week, in a dispute that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker described Wednesday as "total silliness." The two chambers are quarreling over technical changes that the House Republicans say need to be made in the bill, which passed the Senate 98-2.
President Barack Obama received intelligence in August 2016 that Vladimir Putin specifically instructed hackers to damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in hopes of electing Donald Trump. People on both sides of the aisle are demanding to know why Obama didn't do more to prevent or punish the Russian assault on our election.
"I feel like we sort of choked." That is the killer quote in an extraordinary Washington Post investigation into how Barack Obama responded to intelligence last year that Russia was running a sophisticated influence operation against the 2016 elections.
The President is unloading a barrage of attacks on Barack Obama, questioning his motivations in the Russia drama and taking aim at his political legacy, knowing that by choice and tradition, the former commander in chief only has a limited capacity to fight back. It's an increasingly irksome strategy to Obama's former aides, who must look on as the President trashes their former boss and his achievements, including the Affordable Care Act, climate change and diplomatic thaws with Cuba and Iran.
Russia's alleged role in the 2016 presidential election is turning into a stark lesson about how America's political dysfunction is becoming a glaring national security threat. Debate stirred by new Washington Post reporting that linked interference in last year's election more directly than ever before to Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed how political considerations for two administrations have allowed Moscow to avoid paying a significant price for an attempt to manipulate the US election on an unprecedented scale.
President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the idea is exposing deep divisions within the administration on the best way to approach Moscow in the midst of an ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections.
Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic... . FILE - In this May 29, 2017, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris.