Ben Schreckinger

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ben Schreckinger

6 hours agoDonald Trump issues warning to Volodymyr Zelensky after explosive Oval Office rowDonald Trump has issued a warning to Volodymyr Zelensky following their explosive Oval Office row. As he departed the White House for Mar-a-Lago Friday evening (28 February), the US President said the Ukrainian President “overplayed his hand” during the contentious Oval Office meeting earlier in the day.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ben Schreckinger

Of all the priorities Donald Trump has set since returning to power, his fixation on Greenland has ranked among the most mystifying. The president’s insistence that the U.S. should “own and control” the world’s largest island has unsettled its inhabitants and inspired his allies to imagine it as America's 51st state. It has also raised a host of questions about why and how a possible U.S.-Greenland union could come to be.

2 months ago | msn.com | Ben Schreckinger

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2 months ago | politico.com | Ben Schreckinger

In stints at the Treasury Department and National Security Council during Trump’s first term, Claver-Catone took a no-holds-barred approach to diplomacy, backing tougher sanctions on Cuba and organizing an abortive effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. As president of the Inter-American Development Bank — where he was ejected in 2022 over misconduct charges that he denied — Claver-Carone also became a fierce opponent of China’s presence in the hemisphere.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Ben Schreckinger

President Donald Trump opened his second term with sudden moves to shake up the Western hemisphere — vowing to take back the Panama Canal, threatening tariffs on American neighbors and demanding the repatriation of undocumented migrants. As Trump’s special envoy for Latin America, it’s up to Mauricio Claver-Carone to work out the details. The role of Trump’s regional enforcer is a natural one for the Miami native.