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Furloughed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and others leave the Barclays Center with bags of food as the Food Bank For NYC holds food distribution for federal workers impacted by the government shutdown in Brooklyn, New York January 22, 2019. ( TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
January 25, 2019, 3:48 am
Trump aides blasted as out of touch for dismissing shutdown suffering
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, worth some $700 million, sparks anger after saying he does not understand why furloughed federal workers are not just taking out loans
By Jonathan Lemire
US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, January 24, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)
January 25, 2018, 9:00 am
Trump takes ‘America First’ message to World Economic Forum
US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin indicates president will try to reassure globalists in Davos about his policies; American leader also to meet with Netanyahu during trip
By Andrew BEATTY
Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (AFP/SPUTNIK/Mikhail KLIMENTYEV)
November 11, 2017, 2:17 pm
Putin says claims of Russian meddling in US vote are ‘fantasies’
Trump administration has been roiled by allegations that Moscow helped president into White House, with key former aides under investigation for alleged collaboration with Kremlin
By AFP
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appears before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, on October 12, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
November 5, 2017, 9:51 pm
New huge document leak shows US Commerce head has stake in firm tied to Putin
No evidence of wrong-doing, but leaked details of offshore tax havens also show Russian invested in Jared Kushner’s real estate fund
By Bernard Condon
A T-shirt depicting US president Donald Trump for sale in NYC. December 23, 2016. (Serge Attal/FLASH90)
October 18, 2017, 10:50 pm
Israel, other allies irked by Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order
WTO members urge Washington to honor treaty which binds US to open competition to foreign markets
By AP
then-attorney general-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
March 8, 2017, 5:02 am
Chinese firm ZTE pleads guilty to breaking Iran sanctions
US levels $900m fine over company’s illegal export of sensitive US-made equipment to Tehran and North Korea
By PAUL WISEMAN and SADIE GURMAN
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