"No gringo is going to give orders to this president," Lula said, wearing a bright red shirt as he addressed a gathering of leftist student activists in the state of Goias. In Bra

Mr. Trump has also taken aim at Powell's handling of a Federal Reserve office renovation project.

President Donald Trump says he has finally found a way to achieve his goal of removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, accusing him of mismanaging the U.S. central bank’s $2.5 billion renovation...

Powell said in his response late Thursday that the renovation and its financing have always had careful oversight from the central bank’s board and its own watchdog.

By David Shepardson and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday vowed to fight an "illegal" move by President Donald Trump's administration to cancel $4 billion in federal grants for the state's ambitious but much-delayed high-speed rail project.

The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of build...

“The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.

Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitar...

Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar said last week that Washington had put “considerable pressure” on several countries, including Nigeria, to accept deportees but that Nigeria already had 230mn ...