This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all things happening in US politics. I’m Kasia Broussalian, and this week we’re asking: why is Donald Trump ...

President Elect Donald Trump has wanted a big U.S. icebreaker fleet for years. With the ICE Pact, he can finally get ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term after a reelection widely viewed as illegitimate ...

America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that her country was sending support in part because many Mexican people live ...

We take pride in being the biggest trading partner of the United States of America. Canadian politicians love to boast about ...

Donald Trump is not backing down. In fact, quite the opposite. He keeps moving forward with his idea of Canada as a state of ...

When Donald Trump was musing about using "economic force" to potentially acquire Canada, the U.S. president-elect was, at the ...

Trump suggests renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. So, can he do that? Here's what goes into a name.

The congressman weighed in on the new Congress, incoming Trump administration, and comments by the president-elect about potential U.S. expansion in other parts of the world.