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President Trump waves as he walks away from Marine One as he arrives at the White House on Thursday after returning from Florida, where he viewed damage from Hurricane Irma. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Trump lashed out at ESPN on Friday, saying the sports network had “bad programming” and was losing viewers following an anchor’s denunciations […]Read More

Shanez Tabarsi (R) is greeted by her daughter Negin after traveling to the United States from Iran following a federal court’s temporary stay of President Trump’s executive order travel ban at Logan Airport in Boston, Feb. 6. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) When a bomb exploded on a London subway train on Friday morning, President Trump was quick to […]Read More

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Democrats who’ve worried that the trial of Sen. Robert Menendez would let Republicans flip a seat from blue to red may have found an emergency brake: New Jersey voters. In a new Quinnipiac University poll, when asked what should happen “if Senator Menendez is forced to leave the Senate” […]Read More

President Trump said on Sept. 14 a DACA deal will only happen if “extreme security” is implemented along the border. (The Washington Post) President Trump’s first foray into dealmaking with Democrats — a short-term extension of the debt ceiling — was shocking. But it was also relatively easy. It was a low-impact throwing of his […]

President Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington shortly after the 2016 election. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) President Trump campaigned on repealing Obamacare, strongly considering conservative justices who would repeal same-sex marriage and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. It was these promises and others like them that […]

Fox News host Sean Hannity (Carolyn Kaster/AP) By now, we have grown accustomed to criticism of President Trump from the likes of Breitbart News and Ann Coulter, election-year superfans who suddenly feel betrayed by some of the president’s actions in office. Sean Hannity, however, has remained so loyal that Coulter wrote in June that he “would […]Read More

President Trump’s decision to work with Democratic lawmakers to move forward with border security and protections for dreamers inflamed his conservative base, and raised questions about his promised border wall. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) President Trump further swept the debate over “dreamer” protections into confusion Thursday when he said he was not considering allowing hundreds […]Read More

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) (L) makes a point to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Sept. 6, 2017. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Staunch conservative allies of President Trump erupted in anger and incredulity late Wednesday after Democrats announced the president had agreed to pursue a legislative deal that would protect […]

It’s rate to have two U.S. agencies that report to the same person disagree. But this a matter of international politics. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post) “As of July 7, health actors had recorded more than 23,200 cases of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) since August 2016, according to the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) and the […]Read More

In this Sept. 6, 2017 photo, President Trump met with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 6, 217. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Trump and top Democratic leaders agreed late Wednesday to pursue a legislative deal that would protect hundreds of thousands of young […]Read More

President Trump told lawmakers that he expects Congress to act “real soon” on legislation to protect immigrant “dreamers,” but House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said it could be “weeks” before the issue is resolved. The latest disconnect between senior Republicans and the president came as Trump is hosting Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer […]Read More

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) isn’t the only politician who has made a mistake on Twitter. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) reiterated Wednesday that he was not the person who highlighted an explicit Twitter post that made the senator the target of viral mockery online. “It was not me, and it’s not going […]Read More