The records, which involve children who had entered the country alone or had been separated from their parents, detailed allegations that adult staff members had harassed and assaulted children, including fondling and kissing minors, watching them as they showered, and raping them.

Cohen’s testimony may overshadow Trump’s high-profile diplomacy with North Korea.

...that he says were reimbursements for the $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election.

‘I Find It Ironic, President Trump, That You Are in Vietnam Right Now’

This was when Barack Obama was president of the United States.

India confirmed the loss of one MiG21 fighter and said its pilot was missing in action.

“I’m giving the committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr Trump’s direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr Trump’s grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission.”

He told reporters his tweet wasn't witness-tampering, but instead was "witness-testing."

...designating more than one million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizing a federal program to pay for conservation measures.

...with just 13 Republicans joining Democrats to try to block his effort to divert funding to a border wall without congressional approval.

"I'll look like an idiot--but if the fate of humanity is at stake, I have no choice!"

Senate Republicans expressed deep skepticism about Trump’s emergency declaration at a closed-door meeting with the vice president.

Powell spoke out against the government’s growing levels of debt, which are spiraling at a much greater rate than GDP growth.

Trump faces the biggest opportunity of his presidency yet for a diplomatic breakthrough — and the stark risks of underdelivering on a signature issue after threatening “fire and fury” only months ago.

...their avowed goal of achieving a lasting peace and “complete denuclearization” remained elusive, but the once-imminent threat of war felt even more removed.

...raising the possibility that the President could be forced to issue the first veto of his tenure on what is widely seen as his biggest campaign promise

The decision applies only to New York State, the only place where he was admitted to the Bar.

To which the heiress, who has literally been handed everything her entire life thanks to federal housing subsidies her grandfather received from the government, responded: “I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something.”

The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladi­mir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election

The court upheld a civil contempt order against former Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller, who refused to comply with a grand jury subpoena and challenged Mueller's appointment.

The different arrivals symbolized the wide gulf between the world’s leading economic power and a long-reclusive regime

It was the first time that Indian aircraft had crossed the Kashmir Line of Control to strike in decades. But it was unclear what, if anything, the attack jets hit on the Pakistani side

The data was referenced in an email with Manafort’s associate, Rick Gates, and in emails sent by Kilimnik

Trump Organization attorney Alan Futerfas said the committee’s decision to hire Barry Berke as a legal consultant violates ethics rules because Berke’s firm has long represented the Trump Organization.

Appearing at McConnell’s office marks the first time the youth climate advocates have used their tactics at a Republican office in Washington.

Okinawa is host to the bulk of U.S. military forces in Japan, whose alliance with Washington is central to its security.

Trump has positioned his monthslong trade fight with China as necessary to win “the biggest deal” in history.

...the administration may be preparing to deliver something that Mr. Kim desperately wants: a joint political statement declaring an end to the Korean War.

‘This is like assembling a panel of gravity sceptics who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings,’ says Nasa scientist

Satellite images of the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center [...] indicate the main 5-megawatt reactor on the site is running

Reid [...] said in an interview with CNN that there was “something wrong” with Trump.

...suggesting that those who do so have fallen into a trap set by Democrats.

“I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”

The Republican president, who knows far less about trade than he likes to pretend, is routinely far more interested in what things are called than the substantive details.

Why did Deutsche Bank lend money to Trump business when others refused?

German officials allege Sig Sauer manufactured at least 38,000 pistols [...] before shipping the weapons to its U.S. entity's headquarters [...] which then completed the transaction with Colombia.

...and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.

In a 13-page joint statement by various diplomats, intelligence chiefs, Cabinet secretaries and senior government personnel from previous administrations, the former civil servants said they “are aware of no emergency that remotely justifies” Trump’s invocation of emergency powers

...saying that excluding women is no longer justified because they can now serve in combat roles just as men do.

...Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

...thanks to “productive” trade talks and that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping would meet to seal a deal if progress continued.

They added that if a parliamentary compromise is not found soon, there won't be enough time to agree a deal and pass legislation before March 29, the date when Britain is set to exit the bloc.

...starting a journey across China to his planned summit meeting with President Trump in Vietnam in the coming week.

...as a hardened, remorseless criminal who “repeatedly and brazenly” violated a host of laws over more than a decade and did not deserve any breaks when he is sentenced in coming weeks.

“Patience is exhausted, I can’t bare it anymore, we can’t keep putting up with Colombian territory being used for attacks against Venezuela.”

“I don’t like MOUs because they don’t mean anything. To me, they don’t mean anything.”

Current U.S.-China talks in Washington extended for two more days

...in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes

...setting up votes in Congress to rebuke the President's proclamation.

“An elector shall not vote for a candidate for President or Vice-President of the United States, unless the candidate had filed, or caused to be filed, the candidate’s federal income tax return”

President Trump is excited to meet Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. Others fear he’ll give too much away.

...a threat it has made before but now seems more determined to carry out in the wake of a suicide bomb attack last week for which India has blamed Pakistan.

"It's become clear to me that the public's confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined,"

“You apparently need clear boundaries, so there they are,” she said.

...part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken country.

The steps McCabe took to open an investigation after Trump fired Comey were immediately relayed to the White House by Nunes.

Not even the interns are exempt from the legally dubious rite of passage that is signing a Trump NDA.

The president tweeted that he was cutting off disaster assistance to wildfire survivors to punish California officials. But no record of such an order exists.

“I don’t know which report you’re talking about. We have many reports.”

Hasson wrote about wanting to start a race war, and pondered the best way to do it. “Much blood will have to be spilled to get whitey off the couch,” he wrote.

“If some of the things hadn’t been filled in, we would fill in the ones who had not been filled in,”

Cohen would not be allowed to discuss matters related to Russia, including a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow under scrutiny by the special counsel

Cohen had been scheduled to report to prison on March 6

...one of the most pressing questions Barr will face in the coming weeks is the extent to which Mueller's findings should be disclosed to Congress.

Jessica Denson, who worked for the Trump campaign in 2016, is arguing the language of the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that all staffers had to sign is unlawful.

Bloomberg said the bank's executive board was "leery of the public relations disaster they would face if they went after the assets of a sitting president."

The president has selected Jeffrey Rosen to take over for Rod Rosenstein as the No. 2 official at the DOJ.

The groups range from white supremacists to black nationalists, neo-Nazis to neo-Confederates.

“This system — where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use — has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses”

And in a clear reference to the United States, Putin said the Russian missiles also could be trained on where “the centers of decision-making are located.”

The truth is, the myth of voter fraud is nothing more than a ploy to justify laws that make it significantly harder for racial minorities and the poor [...] to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

The marches came after around 80 graves were desecrated with swastikas overnight in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France

Known as Space Policy Directive 4 (SPD-4), the directive orders the Pentagon draft legislation for Congress that would create the Space Force as a part of the U.S. Air Force.

They include statements made on Twitter, in official speeches, at rallies and during news media interviews and other press events.

The goal was to ensure that the information collected under the investigations, which included probes of Trump associates and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, would survive the firings or reassignments of top law enforcement officials.

The company -- which, in more recent court filings, considers itself interchangeable with the unnamed country that owns it -- lost its challenge before the trial court and a federal court of appeals in Washington to avoid turning over the information.

The administration is responding in part to a reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Trump’s top geopolitical foe.

House Democrats are now pursuing a formal deposition of Whitaker as they scrutinize whether he committed perjury.

President Trump’s efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finishes his work.

Yet the effort to promote nuclear sales persisted, led by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

In the latest of a string of revelations from the former acting FBI director, he says leading Republicans didn’t object to the counterintelligence probe into Trump.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone would need to show cause at a hearing on Thursday as to why the posts did not violate a gag order in the case or the conditions of his release.

The lessons of the Weimar Republic.

Chao has met at least 10 times with politicians and business leaders from the state in response to requests from McConnell’s office.

...arguing that the president’s decision to declare a national emergency is unconstitutional.

The No. 2 official at the department has become one of the highest profile figures in the Trump administration given his oversight of the Russia investigation and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017.

“Mr. Stone recognizes the impropriety and had it removed.”

"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.

–Roger Stone

...depending on how Stone meant the post, he could be guilty of a felony.

Britt said that she and other members of the Dowless team collected several unsealed ballots and opened them to ascertain who voters had selected.

A 45-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico died in Border Patrol custody Monday after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas

"THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" Trump had tweeted following Baldwin's impersonation of him.

...the U.S. government "informally" asked Tokyo to nominate Trump after he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June

The rebuttal comes as federal law enforcement officials this week launched a multi-agency investigation into how a growing number of Saudi students accused of serious crimes escaped prosecution.

Key chairmen met with the House general counsel in a bid to put any subpoena fight on firm legal ground.

Texas secretary of state admits there weren't 95,000 "illegal" voters, but still wants to purge state's voter rolls

"the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, as well as to discuss the timing and promotion of their release"

Trump seemed not to have heard such warnings as he ricocheted from topic to topic in the Rose Garden. He carried a speech to the lectern but mostly ignored it as he spun fantasies.

Prosecutors made a clear reference to Manafort’s time atop Trump’s 2016 campaign, noting his 'repeated misrepresentations to financial institutions were brazen' during that time.

The publisher of rock band R.E.M.'s music asked Twitter to remove a satirical video clip containing one of the band's songs

...lawyers representing both the White House and the Trump Organization repeatedly provided false information to ethics officials, including “evolving stories” about whether payments were made to Mr. Cohen and the purposes of those payments.

All of the broadcast and cable news networks carried the declaration and press conference that followed, with only CBS deciding to cut away after 21 minutes before the event was complete.

Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a southern border wall will be met with fierce Democratic opposition, both legally and in Congress

“He thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles,” McCabe writes. “He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.”

Health experts warn that the claim is not true and adds to misinformation that could cause harm.

Trump made the comments on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" in November 2014 when asked about executive actions by then-President Barack Obama that would halt deportations for the undocumented parents of children born in the United States.

“As a matter of policy, the FBI does everything possible not to influence elections,” he writes. “In 2016, it seems we did.”

Others have pointed out that declaring a random emergency and overriding the legislature whenever it’s convenient is a hallmark of dictatorships around the world.

Despite gaining four pounds from last year, Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s physician, said the 72-year-old president “remains in very good health overall.”

Tyler McGaughey’s work will “intersect” with the Russia investigation.

...handing oversight of the Justice Department — and its investigation into links between Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign — to a seasoned Republican legal hand known for his expansive view of presidential power.

...a bizarre and telling tweak.

A suicide bomber rammed a car into a bus carrying Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir

"Melania and I join all Americans in praying for the continued healing of those in the Parkland community and all communities where lives have been lost to gun violence."

...his son-in-law joining the White House legal team was "concerning" as it " it raises further questions about Barr's independence."

...they discussed whether to recruit cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office.

A clip in which the congresswoman asks ethics experts about government corruption has been viewed 40 million times

Both students and editors said that the victims were mostly African-American or Latino, and that many of their deaths had not been publicized.

Other Trump aides have admitted to lying in Mueller’s investigation, too, but not involving specific contacts with Russians.

“You repeatedly refused to offer clear responses regarding your communications with the White House, and you were inconsistent in your application of the department’s policy related to the discussion of ongoing investigations”

It's never appeared on any hundreds of underground websites selling stolen information. Security experts haven't seen the data used in any of the ways they'd expect in a theft like this — not for impersonating victims, not for accessing other websites, nothing.

Concord Management and Consulting LLC [...] lost its bid for additional discovery to bolster its claim that it has been unfairly targeted simply for being from Russia.

That system replaced an older, less sophisticated simulator that had been installed under President Barack Obama

After one 2017 meeting with Putin, Trump reportedly asked his State Department interpreter for her notes and instructed her not to discuss the meeting with other administration officials.

...he was "not happy" with the tentative deal reached by congressional negotiators late Monday night that falls far short of his original demands.

House Democrats will pass a gun control bill this week — amazingly, Senate Republicans may go along. It's a new day

So far, the White House has doggedly refused to turn on its allies in Riyadh.

Washington, of course, already hosts major 4th of July parade. Called America's National Independence Day Parade

...a milestone that experts warned is further proof the country is on an unsustainable financial path that could jeopardize the economic security of every American.

Guzmán has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug-trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.

The congresswoman’s comments may have been thoughtless. But if we call all criticism of Israel “anti-Semitic” we risk making the term meaningless.

Ron wasn't Ron. Ron was the media. And the media are fair game, aren't they?

The El Paso Fire Department late Monday denied President Donald Trump's claim that officials gave him special permission to pack more people in to his rally than the facility allowed.

The fact that Republicans signed off shows how little leverage they have.

Videos shows the man bursting into the press corral at the El Paso event, pushing a BBC photographer, and yelling "Fuck the media" as the crowd jeers.

"We have a line that is very long already ... And I understand our competition's got a line, too, but it's a tiny, little line."

“Stronger Together” was actually Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign slogan as well as the title of the book she wrote

...after President Donald Trump referred to her Green New Deal resolution as a "high school term paper" during his El Paso, Texas rally.

The pitfalls of a plan for Trump to shift federal dollars without an emergency declaration are coming into clearer view.

...denying President Trump much of the money he’s sought to build new walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The fierce backlash against the Congresswoman for stating the obvious can be seen as a sign that the Israel lobby, though still powerful, is losing some of its oomph

Whitaker has faced intense scrutiny for his coziness with the White House, as well as his public criticisms of the special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, which he now oversees.

Red states are getting new residents, but it's not clear the newcomers will really vote Republican.

Contradicting U.S. intelligence reports, a foreign affairs minister claimed the Saudi officials accused of killing the journalist acted “outside their scope of authority.”

If an agreement on funding the government isn't reached by Friday at midnight, the government could partially shut down again

The comments drew immediate blowback on social media, with accusations that the president was making light of one of the worst tragedies Native Americans have experienced.

Trump said barriers turned El Paso from one of the nation’s most dangerous cities to one of its safest, but that’s not true.

O'Rourke's camp described Monday's protest march as an effort to "show the country the reality of the border — a vibrant, safe, bi-national community that proudly celebrates its culture, history, diversity and status as a city of immigrants."

“The threats, the blackmail, that’s their business model”

West Wing officials managing the hunt have enlisted the help of the White House IT office, and believe they are making progress in narrowing the search for potential suspects.

Soon after Trump broke ground at Bedminster in 2002 with a golden shovel, this village emerged as a wellspring of low-paid labor for the private club

House and Senate conferees were nearing an agreement that could offer the president $1.3 billion to about $2 billion in funding for border security.

The acting attorney general appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Democrats asked about the Russia investigation and his oversight of it.

Stone told a federal judge that she can’t legally silence him, in part because he’s not famous like Kim Kardashian.

Kavanaugh’s opinion demonstrates that he is open to the strategy of subjecting abortion rights to death by a thousand cuts.

Not just Oregon: Saudi students in at least 8 states, Canada vanish while facing criminal charges

Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court's more liberal justices to continue blocking implementation of the law.

In the AMI letters I’m making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal

...after he threatened to not show up following the panel’s warning that it could subpoena him.

But the British economy is paying a price as Brexit uncertainty contributes to a growing gloom.

The torrent of scandals has left state lawmakers finding themselves answering questions about whether they have so-far-undisclosed misconduct.

'Many of our greatest strides, from gaining our independence to abolition of civil rights ... have been led by people of faith'

...convening a hearing Thursday to examine legislative proposals and laws dictating the process to acquire the documents.

It is true that Republicans never opened wide-ranging investigations of Obama’s private business — because Obama didn’t have a private business. We know that because Obama released his tax returns

In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation [...] sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture.

...amid complaints by Democrats that Treasury failed to deliver documents they requested regarding the department's decision to lift penalties targeting billionaire Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.

What's personally good for a president facing a corruption probe isn't automatically what's best for the country.

Pelosi says [...] Trump's suggestion [...] that lawmakers abandon their investigations of the administration is a "threat" that has no place in Congress.

“The constant impression from [CEOs] I talk to is that they’re constantly starving for time,” she said. “It would be a luxury for them to have five hours a day to think or work by themselves.”

Aware of having been wrong in the past, I’m more open to being wrong today, and I trust that I’m more open to correction.

Video alleges to show US president meeting with former Russian officials in Moscow to discuss building an underground mall

"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn't work that way!"

Pelosi took the dark art of performative piss-take to another level when she literally clapped back at the president’s face by way of rebuttal for Trump’s disingenuous call for comity and unity.

His administration is asking a federal court to rule Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions unconstitutional.

...in a move that challenges President Trump’s description of a security crisis.

France fired the missile from a fighter jet in an exercise that tested every element of an actual nuclear strike

Bewildered by polls that show Americans want to tax the rich, the network blames the Golden Rule

"...it’s pathetic that the one time Trump (the biggest bully out there) cares about bullying it’s only because his last name is involved."

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York subpoenaed the inaugural committee on Monday.

Cohen, you may recall, made secret recordings of conversations he had in the past.

Pai's FCC is too secretive and too beholden to corporations, Democrats say.

Trump throws out a few nuggets of superficially unifying rhetoric designed to garner approval from elite centrist commentators, while also keeping a conveyor belt laden with bloody meat running to his supporters.

As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot of praise for Vladimir Putin — and no business, he kept insisting, in Russia. These documents tell a different story.

“I was not consulted,” said U.S. General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. military’s Central Command

The Trump administration wants to drag an expected Democratic request for the president’s tax returns into a quagmire of arcane legal arguments.

The US shipped weapons and secrets to the Saudis and Emiratis. Now, some are in the hands of fighters linked to al Qaeda and Iran.

...she joked that she would perform an abortion “with a gun” the next time she heard something she didn’t like from “those gender studies people.”

Nielsen will appear before the House Homeland Security Committee on March

It is an acknowledgment that Trump [...] hasn’t completely cemented his grip on the GOP and, in any event, is not likely to coast to the 2020 GOP nomination without some form of opposition.

More questions have been raised about how Mr Trump funded his spending spree in Scotland, after reports that Deutsche Bank had turned him down for a loan

“...but we will rue the day when we let a president start taking money for one purpose, declaring an emergency and using it for another,”

To protect our source, we retyped the schedules in the same format that staff receive them.

The president sometimes has meetings during Executive Time that he doesn't want most West Wing staff to know about for fear of leaks.

...adding that it was time to “get rid” of the inquiry.

"My intelligence people, if they said in fact that Iran is a wonderful kindergarten, I disagree with them 100 percent. It is a vicious country that kills many people"

Deripaska’s bureaucratic victories so far include overturning a 15-year ban on the use of aluminum wiring in residential construction and persuading local authorities across the country to build pedestrian bridges out of aluminum instead of steel for the first time in half a century.

Putin also said that Russia would build weapons previously banned under the treaty and would no longer initiate talks with the United States on any matters related to nuclear arms control.

Among their concerns was that if Mr. Trump won the election and then defaulted, Deutsche Bank would have to choose between not collecting on the debt or seizing the assets of the president of the United States.

Brexit has shown the world a British parliament and a political class that resembles a ship of fools without a captain.

Filings unsealed by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals named Atlanta-based Alston and Bird as the firm that has been battling with federal prosecutor

Alito said in a brief order that the justices needed more time to review the filings in the case. As such he put the law on hold until February 7.

Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.

...and said he could potentially face a Republican primary challenger in 2020 if he doesn’t build a wall along the southern border.

The legal arguments are highly technical, focusing on whether the FCC acted properly when it classified the internet as a lightly-regulated "information service" — as opposed to a "telecommunications service," which is subject to stringent rules.

After last fall’s 40-seat electoral disaster, the conservative hard-liners have agreed to a cease-fire with their long-suffering GOP leadership as they work together to try to crush Democrats at the polls next year.

The decision has the potential to incite a new arms race — not only with Russia, but also with China

"For years, Russia has violated the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty without remorse"