Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies  —  The president made quite an impression at the G-7 meeting in Canada on Friday.  Saturday he departs to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un.  —  QUEBEC CITY — The world is getting a good look …

Why Trump lit the fire  —  The biggest key to understanding Trump's dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are “ripping off the United States” in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.

Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’  —  LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies — an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.

Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing'  —  LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America's closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end …

In Trump, some fear the end of the world order  —  When does a feud become a separation?  A separation a divorce?  When do arguments, sharp-tongued put-downs and perceived betrayal among allies become the collapse of the Western-dominated order that has ruled the world, under U.S. leadership, for the past seven decades?

Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch  —  On Friday afternoon, the 24th and 25th shoes dropped on Paul Manafort.  —  Earlier this week, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III filed court documents alleging that Manafort and an unnamed individual had tried to tamper with a potential witness in the case.