1Roger Stone turns on Jerome Corsi: He worked with Mueller to 'sandbag me'Monday, December 31, 2018

Political trickster Roger Stone appears to have turned on Jerome Corsi. In an Instagram post Sunday, Stone said the man he has called a "friend" was working with special counsel Robert Mueller to trap him with a perjury charge. "So Jerry Corsi was working with Mueller to sandbag me on a fabricated perjury charge,"... Read More

2Trump's tweets: Judges in government secrecy cases say they are 'speculation' and not 'pure fact'Monday, December 31, 2018

"Speculation." "Unofficial information." "Political statements rather than assertions of pure fact." Those are words federal judges have used to describe President Donald Trump’s tweets while guarding the secrecy of ongoing investigations that have shadowed his presidency. And in an unusual twist, these rulings mark... Read More

3John Kelly paints yet another dim portrait of TrumpMonday, December 31, 2018

A few months ago, a senior Trump administration official wrote a controversial anonymous op-ed in the New York Times that said forces within the administration were working to rein in President Trump’s potentially damaging whims. And in a recent interview, Trump’s departing chief of staff basically confirms it. The... Read More

4Trump says "big progress" being made on possible deal with ChinaSaturday, December 29, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he had a "long and very good call" with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well. "Just had a long and very good call with President Xi of China," Trump wrote. "Deal is moving along... Read More

5Russia, Turkey 'reach understanding' on Syria after US pullout moveSaturday, December 29, 2018

Russian and Turkish officials have reached an "understanding" on coordination of military activities in Syria following a high-level meeting in Moscow, Russian state news outlets cited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying. "An understanding was reached over how the military representatives of Russia and Turkey... Read More

6Trump, Democrats play the blame game in 2nd shutdown weekendSaturday, December 29, 2018

President Donald Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other as the disruption in federal services and public employees' pay slogs into another weekend. Trump upped the brinkmanship by threatening anew to close the border with Mexico to press... Read More

7Mattis, once one of ‘my generals,’ loses his influence with TrumpThursday, December 20, 2018

President Trump’s decision to abruptly withdraw troops from Syria is a clear rebuke to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the last remaining member of a retinue of military men Trump once fondly called “my generals.” Mattis had argued that the counterterrorism mission in Syria is not over and that the small U.S. presence... Read More

8Amber Heard lost acting roles, business opportunities after she accused Johnny Depp of domestic violence — but she isn't staying quietThursday, December 20, 2018

Amber Heard is fighting for change. The actress opened up about how her career suffered after she came forward with domestic violence allegations against her then-husband Johnny Depp, and urged Congress to reauthorize an act that combats the abuse of women in a powerful first-person essay published by The Washington Post. "Friends... Read More

9U.S. Exit Seen as a Betrayal of the Kurds, and a Boon for ISISThursday, December 20, 2018

The day that President Trump ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, the Islamic State claimed that it had set off a bomb in Raqqa, the group’s former capital, killing a Kurdish fighter. It was a small, isolated attack, but the Islamic State’s boast was a canny assertion of the stakes in the American... Read More

10Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill That Would Avert ShutdownThursday, December 20, 2018

Moving to head off a looming government shutdown, the Senate passed a stopgap spending bill on Wednesday night that would keep the government funded through Feb. 8 — and would punt the impasse over a southern border wall to the new year and a divided Congress. The bill, which quickly passed by voice vote after senators... Read More