President Trump was confident he would be able to work out a trade deal with Chinese President Xi as they dined in Argentina over the weekend. The two world leaders appear to have agreed tosomethinggeared toward ending the trade war between the U.S. and China. It’s unclear what exactly that …
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President Trump is tweeting memes again. It began Tuesday night, just as Cindy Hyde-Smith won the special election runoffin the Mississippi senate race. Before Trump congratulated Hyde-Smith, he took a strange shot at Brenda Snipes, the departing Broward Country, Florida, election official who came under fire as the state counted …
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President Donald Trump visited California this weekend to tour areas devastated by wildfires that burned out of control across the state and once again blamed forest management for the fires spreading so quickly. The president went to a neighborhood in Paradise, California, as well as parts of Malibu. As the …
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is being rapidly abandoned by corporate donors and members of the GOP over his continued support for white nationalists and their rhetoric, but at least one colleague is sticking by the congressman: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called King on Wednesday to express his support, Bloomberg first …
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One of the best political ads of 2018 was also one of the simplest. Directed by filmmaker Richard Linklater and commissioned by the Fire Ted Cruz PAC, the ad features a distinctly Texan man questioning the senator’s mettle. “Somebody left something on my door the other day. It said ‘Ted …
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Brett Kavanaugh was officially sworn in as a Supreme Court justice on Saturday, but President Trump wanted to do it again. “A man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” Trump said during a ceremony at the White House on Monday. “You, sir, under …
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Almost two years ago, after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman used a graph to conquer the space-time continuum in his book Thank You For Being Late, I had to sift through over 3,000 hilarious submissions to name a “Most Meaningless Friedman Graph” contest winner. It took hours to settle …
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WASHINGTON — Hackers affiliated with the Russian government have expanded their targets to include the U.S. Senate as well as two American think tanks critical of Russia. The discovery comes from a new report by Microsoft, which says it helped detect this new wave of hacking and is going public …
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —For the past two weeks, the trial in the case of United States of America v. Paul J. Manafort Jr. has played out inside a courtroom sealed off from the outside world. Phones and laptops are not permitted in the Albert V. Bryan Courthouse in suburban Virginia. There …
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On Monday, Donald Trump learned the hard way that openly conspiring with an adversary on live television is not a good look for the president of the United States. After spending 45 minutes bashing U.S. intelligence and praising Vladimir Putin– who stood grinning at Trump’s side – the president was …
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