List of United States articles
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025. Will Trump Make Gaza or Greenland the 51st State?
Another wild week in Washington calls into question long-standing U.S. alliances and policies.
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Donald Trump watches his friend Steve Witkoff speak at the White House Opioid Summit in the East Room of the White House on March 1, 2018 in Washington. Trump’s Real Estate Envoy to the Middle East
Steve Witkoff’s lack of diplomatic experience is his greatest strength—and potentially his fatal weakness.
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An illustration shows Donald Trump waving with his tie flying over his shoulder atop a swinging blue cargo container. Four other multi-colored containers at left hand slightly higher. Trump Has the Whole Global Trade System in His Sights
The U.S. president’s ambitions for “reciprocity” aren’t limited to China.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (L) and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick (R), speaks to the press as he signs an executive order to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. The Big Questions Facing Trump’s New Sovereign Wealth Fund
He isn’t the first U.S. president to try to establish one, but the initiative faces several obstacles.
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An illustration shows a scribbled tangled line connecting the flags of the U.S. and China on either side. Behind the line is the out-of-focus face of Joe Biden. Did Biden Get China Right?
The administration aimed to outcompete China. Four years later, here’s how it measured up.
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Trump looks off to the right under rays of sunlight. Trump Is Behaving a Lot Like Beijing
The U.S. president’s designs on Gaza and other territories mirror China’s failed wolf warrior diplomacy.
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A crowd of people are seen in the foregrojund as they look at a large missile in the distance. Trump Returns to ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran
The U.S. president signed a memo directing agencies to enforce existing sanctions on the country, but his statements suggest he’s open to talks.
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Donald Trump tosses a pen into the crowd holding several pens in the other hand How to Assess Trump’s Early Moves
On FP Live, three experts on three continents try to find the signal in the noise.
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An Amazon Web Services data center is seen from above near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia, on July 17, 2024. Can Trump Power an AI Boom?
DeepSeek has exposed just how uncertain future AI energy demand is.
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Volunteers at a camp for internally displaced people unload sacks of wheat flour that were part of an aid delivery from USAID in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. The Chaos at USAID, Explained
Experts warn that dissolving the agency would be a gift to U.S. adversaries.
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A streak of like arcs across a dark sky ending in a ball of light. The United States Needs an Iron Dome
Trump should revive the “Star Wars” missile defense plans of the 1980s to protect against growing threats from Russia, China, and North Korea.
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Reporters raise their hands in the foreground as Donald Trump gestures with his arms wide behind a podium. On the left, Benjamin Netanyahu looks sideways at Trump from behind a podium. The Sheer Lunacy of Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan
Seizing the Palestinian territory would involve U.S. war crimes and utter regional chaos.
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A man in a baseball cap and polo shirt is seen slightly out of focus in the foreground as he walks with a solemn expression on his face. A poster affixed to the side of a car behind him says "Panama: Not for sale" in English and Spanish. Panama Isn’t Surprised by Trump’s Imperial Fixation
There is a long history of affronts against the country’s sovereignty.
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A box of tomatoes. Why Is the President, Not Congress, in Charge of Tariffs?
Hint: It has to do with tomatoes.
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the CNN Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump’s Myth of American Decline
President Joe Biden handed off a country that was in its strongest geopolitical position in decades.
