Trump staff line up for White House jobs
The political cast-offs, never-have-beens and backbench legislators who surround Donald Trump were warned that their work for the nominee would forever stain their resumes. Now they’re in line for the...
View ArticleInside Trump’s stunning upset victory
It was Friday afternoon, an hour after America heard Donald Trump bragging on tape about sexually assaulting women, when Roger Stone’s phone rang. A secretary in Trump’s office had an urgent request:...
View ArticleTrump pledges to stay Trump
Donald Trump did what president-elects do: an extended sit-down interview with the country’s most venerated television news magazine show. But his Sunday night sit-down on “60 Minutes” did little to...
View ArticlePower battles bog down Trump transition
One week after winning the presidency in a stunning upset, Donald Trump is already botching the transition, insiders say. The daunting task of filling top Cabinet posts appears to be a chaotic scramble...
View ArticleTrump keeps America in suspense
Donald Trump famously declared to keep America “in suspense” about whether he would accept the outcome of the election, injecting the possibility of a reality show plot twist into the presidential...
View ArticleTrump’s Twitter addiction could reshape the presidency
Inside Trump Tower early Tuesday morning, the president-elect was watching a Fox News segment about veterans protesting the removal of the American flag at a Massachusetts college after anti-Trump...
View ArticleTrump keeps stiff upper lip as US report details Russia hacking
U.S. intelligence officials on Friday laid out a stark case â both publicly and privately in Trump Tower to the president-elect â that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a massive...
View ArticleTrump confronts firestorm over Russia allegations
Ten days before heâs sworn in as U.S. president, Donald Trump is facing a potential crisis amid reports that intelligence officials had delivered a report to the president-elect last week outlining...
View ArticleTrump’s inauguration: 5 things to watch
What was once seen by many as an impossibility will become a reality around noon Friday when Donald J. Trump stands on the Capitol’s west steps to be sworn in as the country’s 45th president. What...
View ArticleTrump: Telephone call with Mexican president was ‘very friendly’
President Donald Trump spoke for an hour Friday morning with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, a conversation Trump described as a âvery, very friendly call.â The call, which took place...
View ArticleTrump lashes out at judge who put his travel ban on ice
President Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday at “this so-called judge” who put a nationwide hold on the implementation of his travel ban denying entry to the U.S. for refugees and people from seven...
View ArticleTrump leans on ‘fake news’ line to combat reports of West Wing dysfunction
President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out via Twitter at a series of news reports revealing the turmoil inside the White House, leaning on his crutch of âfake newsâ as he struggles to control a...
View ArticleTrump pledges to honor ‘one China’ policy in call with Xi
President Donald Trump backed down from a blustery threat in an effort to ease tensions with China during his first phone call with the country’s president on Thursday night. Trump, who first inflamed...
View ArticleMichael Flynn resigns as US National Security Adviser
U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has resigned, a Trump administration official confirmed Monday evening. The resignation came amid a growing scandal over Flynn’s contact with Russia’s...
View ArticleFlynn’s ouster leads to more chaos in Trump world
The resignation of U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn did little to calm the chaos at the White House, where staff spent Tuesday scrambling to deflect blame for the rising scandal about...
View ArticleNetanyahu butters up Trump
In his first public diplomatic foray with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu employed a proven strategy at softening up the freewheeling deal-maker now leading U.S....
View ArticleTrump ignores ‘the grown-ups’ in his Cabinet
President Donald Trump this week abruptly dropped the nation’s commitment to a two-state solution for Middle East peace â without reviewing the specifics of his new strategy with Secretary of State...
View ArticleDonald Trump tones down the dark rhetoric
U.S. President Donald Trump eased up on his deeply dark rhetoric during his first address before Congress on Tuesday night, instead infusing his speech with aspirational talk of Americansâ âhopes...
View ArticleTrump accuses Obama of ‘wire tapping’ Trump Tower phones
President Donald Trump, under scrutiny for possible ties between his campaign and Russia and increasingly fixated with rooting out leaks, on Saturday morning sought to deflect attention by accusing...
View ArticleJon Huntsman offered Russia ambassadorship
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has been offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Russia and is in the process of submitting paperwork to accept the position, two administration sources have confirmed....
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