The detained Americans have spent years in Chinese jail. The White House didn’t confirm if any Chinese citizens were freed in exchange. Three Americans imprisoned in China for years are returning to the United States following a diplomatic agreement between Washington and Beijing. The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung, businessmen whom
They were subject to ‘bomb threats’ and swatting attempts, Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday. Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees were targeted by “bomb threats” and “swatting” attempts on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, a Trump spokeswoman said. In a statement issued on social media, Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that unnamed
The United States has declared Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González the rightful Venezuelan president and called for Nicolas Maduro to step down. The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Nov. 27 imposed new sanctions on 21 security and cabinet-level officials aligned with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. The new sanctions, targetting senior administration officials within Venezuela’s
‘We can do so many things on policies that can work right away,’ Rep. Henry Cuellar says. A Texas Democrat who represents a congressional district along the U.S.–Mexico border said he believes he can find “common ground” with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who has been critical of the Biden administration’s border
The Trump transition team has signed an agreement with the current administration that will unlock access to resources to further the transition process, but the Trump team said they will not sign another critical transition agreement with the General Services Administration that would make the transition more secure and transparent, the Biden White House said
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to President-elect Trump in response to tariff threats. Mexico’s president said this week that migrant caravans are no longer heading to the United States, as she responded to a renewed tariff threat issued by President-elect Donald Trump. In a letter that she sent to Trump that was emailed
Harris campaign advisers said they were in ‘crisis management mode’ after Biden exited the race. Campaign managers behind Kamala Harris’s presidential bid blamed her loss to President-elect Donald Trump on their limited time to promote the vice president as a “new generation of leadership.” The Harris–Waltz campaign team of Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quintin