Pent-up Trump lets it rip on vacation
NEW YORK â There has been no sudden national crisis this week, like the underwear bomber who on Christmas Day 2009 forced President Barack Obama to react to a terror attack dressed in an open collar...
View ArticleTrump blows up damage control as he blames ‘both sides’ for Charlottesville
NEW YORK â It took President Donald Trump two days to explicitly call out the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who engaged in violent protests over the weekend that resulted in the death of a...
View ArticleInside the rise and fall of Steve Bannon
In the end, it was Steve Bannonâs ego that did him in. On Friday, ending weeks of speculation, chief of staff John Kelly fired the presidentâs chief strategist â the rumpled, populist firebrand...
View ArticleKushner in Middle East for peace talks
While everyone was busy gazing into the solar eclipse on Monday, White House adviser Jared Kushner had quietly snuck away to the Middle East for a trip that will take him to the Persian Gulf and...
View ArticleMcMaster adds muscle to Kushner’s Middle East peace effort
WASHINGTON â Jared Kushner has spent eight months as his father-in-lawâs point person in the Middle East, relying primarily on one envoy, former Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt, to do...
View ArticleSpicer lands post-White House gig
Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.” President Donald Trump’s first press secretary — who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the...
View ArticleKelly’s deputy annoys Trump aides with rigid style
WASHINGTON — Chief of staff John Kelly’s no-nonsense deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, has only been working in the White House for five weeks. But in her short tenure, the new sheriff’s no. 2 has already...
View ArticleTillerson heads to UN gathering with challenger waiting in the wings
The disagreement among Trump administration officials and Washington’s foreign policy intelligentsia is not about if but rather when U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley eclipsed Secretary of State Rex...
View ArticleKelly struggling to make sense of Kushner’s West Wing role
WASHINGTON — As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration. He argued publicly and privately with Congress that if there were objections to the...
View ArticleLas Vegas shooting presents new kind of leadership test for Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump’s reaction to his country’s deadliest mass shooting — a somber statement from the Diplomatic Room, a moment of silence on the South Lawn, and a dormant-for-a-day Twitter...
View ArticleJohn Kelly lets loose
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly had a few things to get off his chest. He’s not quitting or getting fired (at least not today). He’s not frustrated in his position. The viral photos...
View ArticleTrump blows up damage control as he blames ‘both sides’ for Charlottesville
NEW YORK — It took President Donald Trump two days to explicitly call out the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who engaged in violent protests over the weekend that resulted in the death of a...
View ArticleInside the rise and fall of Steve Bannon
In the end, it was Steve Bannon’s ego that did him in. On Friday, ending weeks of speculation, chief of staff John Kelly fired the president’s chief strategist — the rumpled, populist firebrand who...
View ArticleKushner in Middle East for peace talks
While everyone was busy gazing into the solar eclipse on Monday, White House adviser Jared Kushner had quietly snuck away to the Middle East for a trip that will take him to the Persian Gulf and...
View ArticleMcMaster adds muscle to Kushner’s Middle East peace effort
WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner has spent eight months as his father-in-law’s point person in the Middle East, relying primarily on one envoy, former Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt, to do the...
View ArticleSpicer lands post-White House gig
Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.” President Donald Trump’s first press secretary — who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the...
View ArticleKelly’s deputy annoys Trump aides with rigid style
WASHINGTON — Chief of staff John Kelly’s no-nonsense deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, has only been working in the White House for five weeks. But in her short tenure, the new sheriff’s no. 2 has already...
View ArticleTillerson heads to UN gathering with challenger waiting in the wings
The disagreement among Trump administration officials and Washington’s foreign policy intelligentsia is not about if but rather when U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley eclipsed Secretary of State Rex...
View ArticleKelly struggling to make sense of Kushner’s West Wing role
WASHINGTON — As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration. He argued publicly and privately with Congress that if there were objections to the...
View ArticleLas Vegas shooting presents new kind of leadership test for Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump’s reaction to his country’s deadliest mass shooting — a somber statement from the Diplomatic Room, a moment of silence on the South Lawn, and a dormant-for-a-day Twitter...
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