US President Donald Trump has fired his defense secretary, Mark Esper, amid political chaos gripping his administration after his refusal to concede the election defeat. Trump said in a tweet on Monday that Esper had been “terminated” and that Christopher Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, would “immediately” assume ...
Germany will “stand together” with the United States to overcome global challenges from the coronavirus pandemic to global warming, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday after Joe Biden was elected America’s next president. In a statement that was markedly warm compared to her remarks four years ago when Donald Trump took ...