Trump doesn’t want ‘to hurt Ireland’ — but he might

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DUBLIN — U.S. President Donald Trump says he doesn’t “want to do anything to hurt Ireland” — but that “fairness” might force his hand. That was the big takeaway from Trump’s at-times-excruciating, 45-minute White House monologue Wednesday, with Irish Prime Minister...

5 awkward encounters between UK prime ministers and US presidents 

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LONDON — Oh to be a fly on the wall.  Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet Donald Trump on Thursday for the first time since the U.S. president returned to the White House. Neither of them will forget the meeting — for the right or wrong reasons. Although Starmer...