Senior administration officials profess privately to not knowing exactly what Trump will ultimately decide to do on trade at any given moment.

The word “Nazism” was hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows “Nazism” alongside other “ideologies” of California Republicans like “Conservatism,” "Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green conservatism."

With neo-Nazis marching in American cities, the national faith in absolute free expression is breaking down – even inside the organisation sworn to defend it, the ACLU.

—Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would impose steep tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, provoking retaliation against American businesses and consumers and further straining diplomatic ties

...admitting the intense sobbing as he kicked the parents off their son helped him finally understand how the power of the parent–child connection made two people very nearly inseparable.

The president has taken a prerogative intended to temper justice with mercy, and turned it into an instrument of the culture war.

The most popular read on President Trump's pardon ... is that he may be sending a signal to other allies — hello, Michael Cohen! — that he will pardon them if they stay loyal.

Trump pardoned him on Thursday, saying that Mr. D’Souza had been “treated very unfairly by our government,” echoing a claim the commentator has often made himself.

It would be “nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste,” Mr. Pompeo said after two and a half hours of discussions with Kim Yong-chol

The Trump administration is poised to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, and possibly on Canada and Mexico, this week when a temporary exemption expires as trade talks remain at an impasse

The official death toll from the storm is listed as 64

"In recognition of the increasing connectivity of the Indian and Pacific Oceans today we rename the US Pacific Command to US Indo-Pacific Command"

Ukrainian authorities said they had staged the killing as a sting operation.

The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing of Mr. McCabe’s predecessor, James B. Comey

“You are here illegal, you know that,” added the woman. “If you don’t go with us, you go to jail.”

What has Trump done to obstruct this investigation? The answer to that question is that he has done an extraordinary amount.

Prosecutors explained, however, that they would need two to three more weeks to finish reconstructing what was in the shredder

It was the latest evidence of Trump's ongoing pre-occupation with the probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

North Korea’s top nuclear weapons negotiator was headed for New York on Tuesday and plans to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Babchenko, a Russian journalist who was a critic of the Kremlin’s military intervention in Ukraine, was shot and killed Tuesday evening in Kiev

The latest estimate: roughly 4,600, many of them from delayed medical care.

The White House announced this morning a plan to levy a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese tech goods — with the exact list to be announced next month — as well as tech investment limits for Chinese nationals and entities.

...as part of a broad campaign to crack down on Chinese acquisition of U.S. technology.

A heightened level of presidential urgency is spurring discussions among American and North Korean counterparts two weeks ahead of an off-again, on-again summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Now that he is president, Mr. Trump’s baseless stories of secret plots by powerful interests appear to be having a distinct effect.

“Ivanka Trump’s refusal to divest from her business is especially troubling as the Ivanka brand continues to expand its business in foreign countries”

For a man with a lot of serious issues he needs to address every day, President Trump plainly spends a lot of time thinking about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The tweet struck some as self-serving.

In one of several misleading tweets during the holiday weekend, Trump pushed Democrats to change a “horrible law” that the president said mandated separating children from parents who enter the country illegally. But there is no law specifically requiring the government to take such action

Did the United States really lose track of 1,475 immigrant kids? In short, yes.

California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week — in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”

The United States and North Korea on Sunday kicked off an urgent, behind-the-scenes effort to resurrect a summit meeting between their two leaders by June 12

“We have the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. We go anywhere, anytime we want in the world ... And [in Puerto Rico] we didn’t use those assets the way they should have been used.”

“It is for public opinion,” the former New York mayor admitted ... “Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach.”

Trump referred to an unnamed White House official as a “phony source” in a Saturday tweet—an official who had in fact spoken to the press in a White House-approved briefing.

The senior White House official cited by the Times spoke to dozens of reporters Thursday at the White House and on a conference call to brief them on Trump’s decision earlier that day to cancel his June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

That raised some suspicion, as the matter being discussed concerned an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Trump campaign.

Justice Department and intelligence officials briefed top Republican and Democratic lawmakers ... attempting to defuse a partisan conflict over use of the source and the FBI’s reluctance to reveal information about the matter.

...including so-called issue ads that were used by Russian-linked accounts to spread misinformation and chaos in the 2016 election.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan issued a conciliatory statement, saying the regime was ready to meet with the United States “at any time.”

The firefight was described by the Pentagon as an act of self-defense against a unit of pro-Syrian government forces.

Trump held open the possibility that he and Kim could meet at a later date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said and has continued to say the exact opposite.

The punchy statement comes a day after Trump suggested there was a “substantial chance” that he would postpone or cancel the summit

North Korea said on Thursday that it would have second thoughts about a summit meeting between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Trump if American officials continued to make what the North considers threats against its leadership.

China’s mainland media has joined in the fanfare to pressure overseas airlines to identify Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as being part of the same country.

Kushner’s clearances were approved by career officials after the completion of the F.B.I. background check, and the president was not involved in the process, according to the person briefed on the matter

Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 (£300,000) to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump

To delay a showdown, Republican leaders plan a special meeting on June 7, the deadline for a so-called discharge petition.

An American government employee posted in southern China has signs of possible brain injury after reporting disturbing sounds and sensations ... in events that seemed to draw parallels with mysterious ailments that struck American diplomats in Cuba.

Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, according to the judge.

...further escalating tensions with Beijing that have spanned from trade to North Korea to the military.

Western experts do not know whether the North Koreans have already managed to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and fit in on a missile — but if they have not done so yet, they are probably not very far behind.

This is what Trump wants. It feeds his “witch hunt” narrative.

The bill raises the threshold at which banks are deemed so big and plugged into the financial grid that if one were to fail it would cause major havoc. Those banks are subject to stricter capital and planning requirements.

Their trip comes less than two weeks after a North Korean delegation failed to show up for a similar planning meeting with U.S. officials in the island country, a failure that raised red flags at the White House

...it shows that Mr. Trump is willing to give up what for months has been his bedrock position in dealing with the North. And it demonstrates that three weeks before the June 12 meeting, the White House is still groping for a strategy to negotiate with a reclusive, suspicious nuclear-weapons state.

Cohen has two problems. Trump can’t save him from state charges, and he might have nothing to offer federal investigators if the feds believe that they can’t charge a sitting president.

Evgeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known as the Taxi King, specifically agreed to assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations

Trump’s proposal to impose new abortion restrictions on federally funded family planning programs would bar doctors from advising a woman weighing an abortion about where she could receive one.

The legislation — most commonly referred to as the Crapo bill after its author, the Senate banking committee chair Mike Crapo — is the result of more than a year of negotiations

“The White House sits at the intersection of a Quaternary colluvium (base of steep slope) deposit & a Pleistocene fluvial (river) & estuarine deposit. It’s built on poorly consolidated sediments, not bedrock. Sinkholes happen.”

Its design and creation fell squarely on the White House Communications Agency, the military unit that provides global communications support to the president and his staff.

...to a Thursday briefing to facilitate access for lawmakers to information about an FBI informant involved in the investigation of Russian contacts with President Donald Trump's campaign.

For months, a small group of lawmakers close to Mr. Trump have been in a pitched fight with the Justice Department over access to some of its most delicate case files, including documents detailing the scope of the Russia investigation

The Senate Banking Committee approved an amendment in an overwhelming and bipartisan 23-2 vote that would block Trump from easing sanctions on ZTE without first certifying to Congress that the company is complying with U.S. law.

The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

Ceaseless infighting and jockeying for influence on the White House’s trade team helped deprive Mr. Trump of a quick victory on his most cherished policy agenda

The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.

But in South Korea, many say the blame for the sudden problems in the diplomatic process lies squarely at the feet of someone else: John Bolton.

An official American coin with a likeness of Kim Jong Un on it that refers to him as “Supreme Leader” feels off, to say the least

The White House released a statement Monday headlined, “What you need to know about the violent animals of MS-13.”

“If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action,” Rosenstein said in a statement.

...Giuliani’s claim was “entirely made-up” and “another apparent effort to pressure the special counsel to hasten the end of his work.”

“I'm supporting what my beliefs are, I strongly support traditional family values,” Cunningham said of the clause in an interview. "That if you marry a person of the opposite sex, that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution."

Trump has a direct financial interest in a major real estate development project essentially underwritten by a state-owned Chinese bank. In a normal administration, this would be a weeks-long scandal dominating media coverage of the White House.

In the earlier black-and-white photo from Beijing, the representatives from the West cut a striking contrast with the elderly envoys of the Qing dynasty. But in the photo from Washington, it is the Americans who appear to be older.

“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here”

...a gesture that will temporarily ease tensions between the two nations but rapidly increase pressure on President Trump to secure the type of tough deal that he has long said is necessary to protect American workers.

Trump, increasingly concerned that his summit meeting in Singapore next month with North Korea’s leader could turn into a political embarrassment, has begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding with a historic meeting that he had leapt into accepting

North said the “disease” causing such rampages is not firearms but “youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence” and who have “been drugged in many cases.”

The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright falsehoods.

...as a process to separate items subject to attorney-client privilege appears to be meeting a judge’s demand that it occur speedily and efficiently.

The tweet, which fosters an unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an intelligence "informant" spying on the Trump campaign, appears to be the first time Trump has called for the department to allow lawmakers to see the documents.

Medical experts have puzzled over why Mrs. Trump would have remained in the hospital for almost a week when the recovery for the kind of procedure she underwent — an embolization that cuts off the blood supply to the kidney — is typically a day.

“The president is using his official office to attempt to retaliate against the second-largest US company to the tune of billions because he views its owner as a political opponent”

The meetings, which have not been reported previously, are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign in the months before the presidential election.

Beijing and Washington agreed they would keep talking about measures under which China would import more energy and agricultural commodities from the United States to close the $335 billion ... trade deficit with China.

Most residents here didn’t blame any gun for the tragedy down the street. Many of them pointed to a lack of religion in schools.

In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an informant to talk to two campaign advisers only after they received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign.

Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team were sure the group of three dozen rabble-rousers would cave. The partisan farm bill, after all, includes historic new work requirements for food stamp beneficiaries that conservatives have demanded for years.

It was a rebuke of Speaker Paul D. Ryan by a key bloc of conservatives over his refusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill

The expression of grief — and the promise of action — has become as familiar for Mr. Trump as it was for his recent predecessors.

...largely by lifting existing barriers that would make it easier for United States firms to sell and operate in China

On Friday, Japan notified the World Trade Organization that it was reserving the right to impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States in response to tariffs on steel and aluminum imports

The mutual broadsides were only the latest round of sparring in a battle between the proxies for Mr. Cohen and Ms. Clifford

“As I reflect upon the state of American democracy, I observe a growing crisis of ethics and integrity”

In what has become a national rite, the authorities arrived en masse at a campus, this time at Santa Fe High School, 35 miles from Houston, as students fled in tears.

At the heart of the new twist in the fight is a confidential government informant who, according to current and former officials, met several times with two of Mr. Trump’s campaign aides.

... the European Council president slammed the Trump administration’s “capricious assertiveness,” signaling that Washington can no longer be relied upon

...the lead American trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said the countries involved were “nowhere near close to a deal.”

Panel’s support for intelligence agencies’ findings breaks with earlier House report

North Korea is rapidly moving the goal posts for next month’s summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, saying the United States must stop insisting that the North “unilaterally” abandon its nuclear weapons program

Full disengagement is impossible, leaders on both sides acknowledge. But the plans being developed in Beijing and Washington anticipate a time when the economic engines of China and the United States are not so closely linked, particularly in high-tech industries.

...in exchange for access to and advice about the then-incoming administration

The acknowledgments came amid increasing allegations of legal and ethical misconduct by Mr. Pruitt that have led some lawmakers, including in his own party, to call for his resignation.

“I believe you have some information for us,” Trump Jr. said to a Russian lawyer visiting from Moscow

With only three of 51 Republicans committed to voting against Haspel and six Democrats indicating that they will support her, she appears set to become the agency’s first female director.

The disclosure, released by the Office of Government Ethics, did not specify the purpose of the payment.

The situation looks a lot like Xi is “using barriers against American agriculture to blackmail the Trump administration into accepting ZTE’s behavior”

He continued, "They’re trying to make it about leaks, about an internal matter, and all common sense and common decency are simply ignored.”

North Korea has cancelled talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday, and threatened to cancel next month's summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un over joint U.S.-South Korean military drills

Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses in recent weeks, telling them that there is an open investigation into Cambridge Analytica ... and “associated U.S. persons.”

The moves have been met with relief by diplomats and State Department observers, who were outraged by former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson’s attempts to severely cut the department’s budget and staffing.

The Trump administration accused the head of Iran’s central bank of funneling money to Hezbollah and designated him as a global terrorist

North Korea has begun to remove buildings from around its nuclear-test site in a step toward dismantling the facility, new satellite imagery shows

Originalism is one thing, but limiting the Constitution to property rights cognizable in the days of the horse and carriage is another. As in many other areas of Justice Thomas’ jurisprudence—civil rights chief among them—his principles would create a majoritarian republic that looks nothing like American democracy today.

The intervention by Scott Pruitt’s aides came after one White House official warned the findings would cause a ‘public relations nightmare.'

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/china-contributing-500-million-trump-linked-project-indonesia/

Melania Trump underwent a medical procedure on Monday morning to treat what the White House called a “benign kidney condition” and was reported to be recovering without trouble at a military hospital outside the capital.

While Mr. Trump remains an overpowering personality in Republican politics, he is mostly uninterested in the mechanics of managing a political party. ... So Mr. Trump’s supremely disciplined running mate has stepped into the void.

Even as Palestinians’ anger erupted, American and Israeli officials celebrated President Trump’s move of the embassy to Jerusalem.

Unlike on Fox & Friends, where Trump learns new (frequently incorrect) information, Hannity acts to transform Trump’s pervasive ambivalence into resolve by convincing him what he’s already decided he believes and what he’s decided to do is correct.

The promise not to invade North Korea or otherwise seek Kim’s overthrow would be incentive for him to give up his nuclear weapons.

The comment marked a sharp shift in tone for a president who has long accused China of stealing U.S. jobs.

The overture appeared to be off-key for an administration that has been reliably strident on what it has called unfair Chinese trade practices.

Friday’s encounter was the first of its kind in just more than a year

Pompeo said he insisted to Kim that a "robust verification" by inspectors would have to be part of any deal to ensure that Kim had "fully denuclearized".

Trump ... outlined what he called a comprehensive strategy to lower the cost of prescription drugs by promoting competition and pressing foreign countries to raise their drug prices

"The thing that surprised me most is, I don't understand what kind of environment you're working in where that would be acceptable, and then you can come to work the next day and still have a job,

In other words, that parents would justifiably be terrified about losing their kids is “the big point” — in Kelly’s words — of the policy. Parents considering crossing the border with their children would ... think twice about doing so if being apprehended meant seeing their kids taken away

He said that undocumented immigrants seeking to enter the country “don’t have the skills” to assimilate and called them “overwhelmingly rural people” in comments that sounded derogatory.

The U.S. Postal Service says that its large financial losses are caused by market forces and governmental constraints but not Amazon.com, in a release of its quarterly statistics that stood in contrast to pointed statements made by President Trump.

But he dropped the popular and populist proposals of his presidential campaign, opting not to have the federal government directly negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare. And he chose not to allow American consumers to import low-cost medicines from abroad.

The courts and Congress have resisted his demands, and even his own staff keeps telling him no. As a result, the president brings up the issue constantly, in private and public, as if the power of persuasion can change the reality on the ground.

China has many reasons to believe it will come out ahead in the coming talks. ...it sees the prospect of progress toward a longstanding security goal: the withdrawal of United States troops from the Korean Peninsula.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said she would not comment on a closed-door meeting where the joke was made. And she offered no words of regret over the remark or sympathy for Mr. McCain

The blowup lasted more than 30 minutes... Trump’s tirade went on so long that many present began fidgeting in their seats and flashing grimaces

Some dealt with race directly; others dealt with issues fraught with racial and religious baggage such as ads focused on protests over policing, the debate over a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico and relationships with the Muslim community.

It is unclear what insight Cohen — a longtime real estate attorney and former taxicab operator — could have provided AT&T on complex telecom matters.

“It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway”

“Ms. Haspel’s role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying”

Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders

Sometimes, Russian trolls also tried to fuel rallies and protests, endeavoring at one point in 2016 to pit Beyoncé fans and critics against each other in New York City.

Many of the ads, placed by Russians posing as Americans, didn't endorse a specific candidate but spread inflammatory messages on sensitive subjects such as immigration and race to amplify fault lines in American life

The Trump-Kim summit would be the first meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

China and India, which together make up the majority of purchases of Iranian oil, are unlikely to curtail their Iranian oil imports — and may actually look to expand them.

Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria overnight ... following soon after what the Israeli military described as an unsuccessful Iranian rocket attack against its forces in the Golan Heights.

Trump will lay out on Friday a broad strategy to reduce prescription drug prices, but ... he will not call for Medicare to negotiate lower prices with drug manufacturers

The possible action includes legislation that would block Washington from punishing European companies that continue to do business with Iran.

Haspel, a 33-year C.I.A. veteran who oversaw a secret prison in Thailand in 2002 while a Qaeda suspect was waterboarded there, said that she and other spies were working within the law.

Sometimes the most convoluted question ... is the most basic: Who is paying whom? The follow-up, which can be even more troubling, is, And for what?

Selling access is common in Washington, but investigators could probe whether Cohen promised specific government actions in exchange for payments, which could cause him legal trouble.

The full impact on global oil markets may not be seen for weeks or months. It will depend on how tightly the administration enforces new sanctions on Iran, and whether the entire deal collapses or can somehow be salvaged.

By making brash and risky moves on the world stage ... Trump has a chance to change the way voters evaluate his presidency.

Novartis said Wednesday that it had spoken to lawyers for the special counsel ... about its payments to a shell company controlled by Michael D. Cohen,

North Korea released three American prisoners into the custody of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

“On the one hand, Mr. Blankenship has said some pretty racist things,” commented one potential voter. “On the other hand, he did go to prison after all those miners died. So it’s a tossup.”

Trump has come to see his policy toward North Korea as a success and believes his unusual combination of insults and biting economic sanctions appears to have brought Kim to the table. Now, Trump wants run the same playbook against Iran.

Rouhani said Iran is ready to start unlimited uranium enrichment if these negotiations do not yield benefits in a couple of weeks.

The Associated Press has found evidence that the women were targeted not by jihadists but by the same Russian hacking group that intervened in the American election and exposed the emails of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman

A booklet put out by Mrs Trump bore a striking resemblance to one published under the Obama administration.

Trump’s decision unravels the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, isolating the United States among its allies and leaving it at even greater odds with its adversaries in dealing with the Iranians.

Almost two-thirds of Americans -- 63% -- believe that the US should not withdraw from the agreement made with Iran to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons. Only 29% believe the US should withdraw

Trump is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not continue a waiver of sanctions against Iran ... a major step toward ending the nuclear agreement he has called an “insane” deal that “never, ever should have been made.”

In an informal, four-hour practice session, Mr. Trump’s lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions, given the frequent interruptions on national-security matters along with Mr. Trump’s loquaciousness, one person familiar with the matter said.

“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”

North was convicted in 1989 of charges including obstructing Congress, unlawfully mutilating government documents and taking an illegal gratuity.

Trump’s plea gave voice to this anxiety, suggesting that a victory by Mr. Blankenship in the primary would all but ensure the re-election of the Democratic incumbent,

An oft-forgotten provision of Obamacare is being pushed over the finish line by Trump’s FDA.

Obamacare was never perfect. But Commonwealth Fund analysts noted that, rather than fixing the law’s problems, Republicans have done concrete things to worsen them.

The president has raised the specter of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control.

“I have no knowledge of that,” Giuliani said. “But I would think if it was necessary, yes.”

...warning the United States not to mislead public opinion.

Barrack was interviewed “months ago” and was asked a few questions about Gates’ work on Trump’s inaugural committee, which Barrack chaired

Trump managed to stoke outrage and anger in both London and Paris this weekend — and he did so with a single speech.

“Knives, knives, knives, knives,” he said, mimicking a stabbing motion as he defended gun ownership in the United States.

In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that new federal borrowing over the next 10 years will total $12.4 trillion and that at the end of 2028, the debt will be $28.7 trillion — 96 percent of gross domestic product, up from 39 percent in 2008.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III sharply questioned whether Mueller exceeded his authority in filing tax and bank fraud charges against Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

What a humiliating time to be a New Yorker.

In the past few days, he has launched a series of rants in the media, assailing his former colleagues in law enforcement — and the work that they have done — as Nazis, frauds and garbage.

Trump said Giuliani needed more time to “get his facts straight,” on hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, noting that the former New York City Mayor “just started a day ago.”

Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen ... made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in April

This comes after CNN reported Tuesday that Pence's doctor privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump's doctor Ronny Jackson may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient -- Pence's wife, Karen

Presidents often say things such as we may disagree, but we all love our country.

But any streak of independence from the NRA was gone Friday, as Trump allied himself with some of the gun group’s biggest priorities in a rambling, 45-minute speech that focused as much on his foreign policy agenda, approval ratings and the latest in the Russia investigation as it did on gun policy.

“Again, I gave you the best information that I had,” Sanders said over and over again Thursday in response to questions about why the White House failed to disclose that Trump had reimbursed his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 payment to keep Stormy Daniels quiet.

Neither, Giuliani now says, was actually based upon his own knowledge of how things went down. He was just passing along things he had heard or suspected, without taking care to verify them.

The mismatch between Trump's rhetoric on gun laws and the legislative actions he ultimately ended up backing fits a larger pattern for Trump.

A breakthrough deal to fundamentally change China's economic policies is viewed as highly unlikely during the two days of talks

The details of the payment, and whether and when Trump knew about it, have important legal implications. A payment intended to protect his campaign from political damage could be a violation of campaign finance law. As a candidate, Trump was permitted to spend an unlimited amount of his own funds on his campaign, but such sums should have been reported to the Federal Election Commission.

CORRECTION: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen...

“Imagine if that came out on October 15th, 2016, in the middle of the, you know, last debate with Hillary Clinton,” Giuliani told Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”

They may not ask all the tough questions, but their easy rapport with members of Trump world can promote loose talk that breaks news.

The president’s tweets on Thursday were far more formal that his usual morning messages to the world, which often include words in all capital letters and are punctuated with exclamation points.

... appearing to contradict Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment.

But Ryan has played an invaluable role covering up and enabling Trump administration scandals. When he says his party needs to keep control of the House to prevent subpoenas, he is both promising the cover-ups will continue if his party keeps its control of government, and expressing his clear belief that he opposes any level of independent oversight of the Executive branch.

All this demonstrates the shifting standards candidates are treated with, which somehow kept working to Trump’s benefit. On one hand, there’s a presumption that politicians tell the truth most of the time, so the things they say should be treated with a basic level of respect. Which means that when someone like Trump comes along telling obvious, constant lies, those lies just get passed on to the public over and over.

"Whatever they're buying is non-U.S.," ... "They're buying beans in Canada, in Brazil, mostly Brazil, but very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S."

The new lawyer, Emmet T. Flood, will replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who persuaded Mr. Trump to cooperate with the special counsel for the first year of its investigation.

Cobb is leaving, reports the New York Times, and will be replaced by Emmet T. Flood, a high-profile attorney who represented President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.

Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by refusing to separate himself from his business empire while in office, claiming “absolute immunity.”

But while he was in office, Price argued that the mandate was ineffective and drove up the cost of coverage.

Trump pardoned Arpaio last year after his conviction on a misdemeanor contempt of court charge for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. Arpaio is now a primary candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed the retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

But Ukraine’s chief prosecutor has now halted the investigation, ostensibly to remain on Trump’s good side.

Former Trump attorney John Dowd had been the team’s leader and the only one with the necessary clearance needed to discuss certain issues with Mueller’s office. Since Dowd left, however, none of the president’s lawyers currently have clearance

...he and Navarro both noted that this extension is the last, and agreements must be worked out by the new deadline of June 1, or the tariffs will go into effect.

"He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday. "I just made it up as I went along."

Without a resolution on the interview, the standoff could turn into a historic confrontation before the Supreme Court over a presidential subpoena.

"Due to the status of the special counsel's investigation, the parties do not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing at this time"

The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies

Republican FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly broke a federal law preventing officials from advocating for political candidates when he told a crowd that one way to avoid policy changes was to “make sure that President Trump gets reelected,”

The special counsel seems to be leaving the president's children for last.

“We’re going to do what’s required by the rule of law, and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job.”

We still don’t know the biggest, most important evidence. ... That includes, obviously, the evidence that George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, and Rick Gates all traded to Mueller for their plea deals over the last seven months.

Bornstein, 70, had been Trump's personal doctor for more than 35 years.

The Trump administration on Tuesday embraced Israel’s claims that Iran entered a nuclear deal with the world’s major powers under false pretenses, a stark divergence from its European allies, who said the disclosures broke little new ground and reinforced, rather than weakened, the case for the 2015 deal.

Mr Netanyahu produced what he said were copies of Iranian files detailing a project to build nuclear weapons, which was reportedly mothballed 15 years ago.

Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta ... led Pruitt’s 24-hour security detail, putting him at the center of several of the ethics and spending episodes under review by the EPA inspector general and congressional investigators.

These questions were not leaked when they were first communicated to Trump’s team in March, but only now, after Giuliani has come on board.

The extension reflects concerns by the Trump administration of a swift retaliation on American products by European Union nations