The United States declared the NAFTA countries were nowhere close to a deal in a statement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, designed to douse expectations that an agreement might be just a few minor adjustments away.

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed the possibility on Monday, May 14, 2018, of immediately wrapping up a NAFTA deal despite signs of skepticism about whether that goal is feasible.

Canada and the U.S. have had a testy exchange over the idea of including a termination clause in NAFTA, with this idea of a so-called sunset clause emerging as a late-stage sticking point in the negotiations.

NAFTA negotiating teams will keep bargaining through the weekend in a rush to get a deal by early May, fuelled by a Trump administration desire to meet a legislative deadline.

James Comey's new tell-all isn't officially out yet, but it's already infuriated President Donald Trump, who has called Comey an "untruthful slime ball," and declared that he considered it an honour to fire the FBI director.

Talk of an impending NAFTA deal is premature, Canadian union leader Jerry Dias said in Washington while officials were negotiating there on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Republicans were already sprinting for the exits in historic numbers, with fears of an impending electoral horror show driving them into political retirement before congressional elections this fall.

The president is fuming after a police raid into his inner sanctum. Arms crossed, Donald Trump pointedly refused to rule out firing the special counsel now inching into his business ties.

There's an 80 per cent chance of a new NAFTA agreement in principle within a month, the Mexican minister leading the file said on Monday, April 9, 2018.

Just across the street from the scene where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered 50 years ago Wednesday, a woman has stood vigil, day after day, for several decades, protesting against the site becoming a museum.