President Donald Trump issued a public statement on Monday morning following the death of Pope Francis, calling for prayers and offering condolences to the Catholic Church and its global followers. The pope, 88, passed away on Easter Monday after a prolonged period of illness.

Pope Francis clashed with Donald Trump several times over the years, primarily on Trump's immigration policy and rhetoric toward migrants.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will attend Pope Francis' funeral in Rome. "Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome," Trump said on Truth Social. Argentines long waited for Pope Francis to visit the homeland he left in 2013 to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

US president Donald Trump has been increasingly calling for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, claiming that there is "virtually no inflation", as energy and grocery prices continue to decrease considerably.

Donald Trump is reported to be studying whether to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who he says has been too slow to cut rates. The news has jangled nerves on markets, but does the U.S. president have the power to sack a Fed boss?

President Donald Trump on Monday kept up his verbal assault on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's refusal for now to further cut interest rates, rattling financial markets growing ever more fearful that Trump may ultimately try to fire the U.

Washington and Beijing have descended into a trade war that currently sees China subjected to 145-percent tariffs on exports to the U.S.

With his storm of tariffs on Chinese goods, US President Donald Trump has torched ties with Beijing and likely wrecked any hope of meeting his counterpart Xi Jinping in the