Erica Green

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Haberman |Erica Green

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state who is also serving as the national security adviser, on Friday revealed a significant restructuring of the National Security Council, reducing the size by at least half, according to a person with knowledge of the move.

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Erica Green |Zolan Kanno-Youngs

WASHINGTON — In an astonishing confrontation in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump lectured President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with false claims about a genocide against white Afrikaner farmers, even dimming the lights to show what he said was video evidence of their persecution.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Erica Green |John Eligon

In a White House meeting, the U.S. president is expected to point to alleged discrimination against white South Africans, a week after welcoming a group of them as refugees. President Trump plans to press President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to roll back the country's racial equity laws and to do more to protect Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, in a meeting scheduled at the White House on Wednesday, according to a White House official.

2 weeks ago | thenewstribune.com | Erica Green |Anton Troianovski

President Donald Trump once vowed to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. Now he says the two sides should work it out themselves. ERIC LEE NYT WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday backed off his demand that Russia declare an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, instead endorsing President Vladimir Putin’s call for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Erica Green |Anton Troianovski

NowRussia Has Started Losing the War in UkraineThe military tide may have turned against Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin is skilled at escaping the optics of defeat. He came to power in …16 hours agoJD Vance gives Pope Leo XIV a Trump invitation to visit the USROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of the U.S.-led push for ceasefire negotiations in Russia’s war in Ukraine.