On the last Sunday of July, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, pilgrimaged to Scotland to humbly pay tribute to Donald Trump, the ruler of the American Empire. It was, in every respect, a humiliating prostration for Europe. Trump received Von der Leyen at his own Turnberry golf course, south of Glasgow, but not before finishing
A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump's tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court. The 7-4 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court's finding that Trump had exceeded
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on earth but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy. The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found Trump overstepped his authority under
First panel: On his way to Malta for his summit with US President George H. Bush in December 1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stopped at the Vatican to visit Pope John Paul II. The meeting took place on December 1, 1989. The document recording their conversation has been declassified, and now we can learn how the two looked at the West, Europe