Section: The Mercury News (USA)
See how Trump welcomed Merkel to the White House
President Donald Trump regularly criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the presidential campaign. But both managed to smile, at least a bit, for photographers recording the first face-to-face meeting between the two world leaders since Trump won election. The Associated Press reported that the two planned to talk about NATO, battling...
Here’s how Trump welcomed Merkel to White House
President Donald Trump regularly criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the presidential campaign. But both managed to smile, at least a bit, for photographers recording the first face-to-face meeting between the two world leaders since Trump won election. The Associated Press reported that the two planned to talk about NATO, battling...
Dutch vote: Why it matters to the world; who the players are
Related Articles The latest: Voter turnout higher than last Dutch election PARIS (AP) — As the Netherlands elects new leadership Wednesday, its European neighbors are watching with unusual interest — because the struggle between nationalist, anti-immigrant politicians and pro-EU forces is playing out across the continent in elections later this...
Trump signs revised travel ban
Iraq is off the list. Syria has been tweaked. And visa-holders can breathe a sign of relief. Six weeks after President Trump unveiled his original order halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, only to have it stopped dead in its tracks by a San Francisco-based federal court, he’s now come up with a reworked version of the...
Ivanka Trump, the Russia scandal and her billionaire’s social network
It looks like the controversy over President Donald Trump’s associates having questionable contacts with Russian officials isn’t going away anytime soon. And this week, someone else very close to Trump was caught up in it. The New Yorker revealed that Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump and Trump’s loyal son-in-law and...
The Latest: Schumer says attorney general should resign
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ talks with the Soviet ambassador (all times local): 10:25 a.m. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. Several Republicans and Democrats have called for Sessions to recuse himself from an investigation into Russian...
Russia to build Reichstag replica for kids to attack
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military is building a replica of Berlin’s Reichstag building as a playground for teenagers to attack at a patriotic theme park. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who made the announcement Wednesday, said the replica at the Patriot Park just outside Moscow will be smaller than...
Russian U.N. ambassador’s death under scrutiny
By JENNIFER PELTZ and COLLEEN LONG NEW YORK (AP) — Medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday that more tests are needed to determine how and why he fell ill in his office and later died. Related Articles David Bowie memorial: ‘Startling, stupid’ sculpture planned in London...
Trump taps military strategist as national security adviser
By CATHERINE LUCEY and ROBERT BURNS PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, a prominent military strategist known as a creative thinker, as his new national security adviser, replacing the ousted Michael Flynn. Trump announced the pick Monday at his Palm Beach, Florida, club and said McMaster is “a...
Biologists find weird cave life that may be 50,000 years old
By SETH BORENSTEIN BOSTON (AP) — In a Mexican cave system so beautiful and hot that it is called both Fairyland and hell, scientists have discovered life trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old. The bizarre and ancient microbes were found dormant in caves in Naica, Mexico, and were able to exist by living on minerals such as iron and...
