President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested a federal takeover of New York City and Washington. The comments came when Trump, during a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House, was asked about New York City's upcoming mayoral election.

Evan Vucci/AP “If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to,” Trump said in an extended riff Tuesday in which he also criticized Washington’s local government,

President Trump is hosting 5 African leaders in Washington this week — a selective summit that's raising eyebrows over who was invited, what's on the table, and what it signals about U.S. rivalry with China and BRICS in Africa.

President Donald Trump told leaders from five African nations on Wednesday that he was shifting the U.S. approach to the continent from aid to trade and that the United States is a better partner for Africa than China.

U.S. copper prices vaulted to an all-time high after President Trump said Washington will slap imports of the metal with a 50% tax. Front-month futures contracts jumped 13% Tuesday, the largest single-day price surge in records going back to 1968,

Copper futures in New York surged after US President Donald Trump said he planned to implement a 50% tariff on imports, a move that’s likely to spark massive supply-chain ripples through global metal markets.