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It’s like the campaign never ended. It’s the same all-Trump, all-the-time madness, only exponentially worse. Morning, February 24th, National Harbor, Maryland, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Chin up, eyes asquint, Donald Trump floats to the lectern on a sea of applause and adulation. The building is shaking, and as fans howl his name –…
Donald Trump walks out of the White House to meet with truckers and CEOs on the South Lawn yesterday. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post) With Breanne Deppisch THE BIG IDEA: If you read Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” substituting “conservatives” for “contractors,” the president’s ultimatum to House Republicans on health care is not…
President Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping his calls in Trump Tower. Here’s a timeline of their relationship since inauguration. (Thomas Johnson,Claritza Jimenez,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of…
Congressional Democrats are calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions after news broke that he had failed to mention in his confirmation hearing that he had held discussions with a top official from the Russian government. “Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing before the Senate.” House Minority Leader Nancy…
President Obama in December. Some in his administration feared that intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election could be covered up or destroyed. WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates…
WASHINGTON In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call. When Putin raised the possibility…
The Kremlin wants an apology from Fox after the network’s host called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer” minutes before the most-watched TV event of the year. Bill O’Reilly made the comment during an interview with President Donald Trump that aired just before kickoff of the Super Bowl. “But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer,” O’Reilly…
Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times It is now two and one-half minutes to midnight. Our organization, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is marking the 70th anniversary of its Doomsday Clock on Thursday by moving it 30 seconds closer to midnight. In 2016, the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to…
https://youtu.be/URCz2uc4t20 He’s an authoritarian strongman, and he’s never been more popular with GOP voters. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app….
Putin is the winner as Washington melts down over Russian hacking. A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia’s efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated Jan. 8, 2017 10:20 p.m. ET 721 COMMENTS What a spectacle. Two weeks before a peaceful…