The ugly spectacle of Donald Trump trying to bully Attorney General Jeff Sessions into resigning leads inevitably to one question: What is the president afraid of? Why has Trump unleashed a flood of verbal and twitter abuse against Sessions, one of his earliest and most loyal supporters, a man beloved by Trump’s base and backed […]
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International, USALong-awaited projects in Alaska – including the potentially life-saving King Cove road and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – are now in jeopardy as President Trump reportedly looks for revenge on the state and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in particular after her vote against the GOP health care bill earlier this week.
WASHINGTON — A knife fight for control of the West Wing broke into the open Thursday morning as President Donald Trump’s new communications director Anthony Scaramucci lashed out at White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in a televised interview, accusing Priebus of leaking and standing in the way of Trump’s agenda. “The fish stinks
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USAWASHINGTON—After Senate Republicans agreed to open debate Tuesday to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, they quickly shot down what was once their leading proposal for repealing and replacing Obamacare. Republicans rejected their revised bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, despite having added a provision from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, favored by conservatives and another from
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USAA video of a black teenager being harassed by a security officer in Harris County, Houston, Texas, went viral as soon as it emerged on social media Tuesday. In the video recorded by Marvel Gibson, he is heard saying that he was going door-to-door to distribute cards for his business of mowing yards while his
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USAWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his first public event in five days Wednesday — a meeting with the visiting Lebanese prime minister — as aides try to quell speculation over whether he is considering resigning. Speculation about the possibility of a Tillerson resignation has been mounting as the secretary’s frustrations with life
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Middle East, USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is once again at the vortex of controversy, this time over a suddenly fired staffer who was arrested while at an airport preparing to leave the country. The latest imbroglio is unfolding exactly a year after the biggest crisis of Wasserman Schultz’s political career, the disclosure of massive volumes
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USAPresident Donald Trump compared America to a nation under wartime occupation that needs to be liberated from illegal immigrants during a “Make America Great Again” rally in Ohio Tuesday night. Trump said illegal immigrant gang members are like “animals” and that they’re not using guns to kill people “because it’s too fast and it’s not
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International, USAThere are some epic public apologies out there: the church’s apology to Galileo, for instance, or Tiger Woods’ apology to his wife. This one, below, is a personal favorite. But even with the Bill Clinton lower-lip bite, this one pales in comparison to the historic mea culpa issued this weekend. More than 50 years after
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s new governor checked another box on his political resume Wednesday, signing legislation to tighten regulations on abortion clinics. Republican Eric Greitens, a newcomer to elected office, ended the second special session he called in his first six months as governor by approving a law that abortion opponents say will protect
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe reasoning behind President Donald Trump’s sudden Twitter announcement Wednesday that upended Capitol Hill, the military and LGBT rights activists—that transgender people would be banned from military service—reportedly came down to one factor: funding for the billionaire’s much-hyped idea of constructing a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. In order to boost that funding,
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USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Donald Trump has appointed Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to an ambassadorship, a little more than a month after the Kansas governor saw his signature tax policy dismantled by the state’s Legislature. Trump announced Brownback’s appointment as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Wednesday evening. Brownback had long been expected to be
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USANEW YORK — A former Fox News executive fired after settling a claim that he attempted to sexually assault a female on-air commentator is suing parent company 21st Century Fox for going public with the matter. Francisco Cortes, who ran Fox News Latino, was fired in February after Tamara Holder, a Fox News on-air contributor,
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — After casting a critical vote that allowed Republicans to move forward in their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a move that narrowly passed along partisan lines — Sen. John McCain called on the Senate to focus more on bipartisan debate than on “winning.” McCain, who was diagnosed with