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Bipartisan group working to waive pay limit for Secret Service agents

The federal law enforcement agency has been forced to rapidly expend its resources due to a substantial increase in the number of White House family members under Trump's administration and the frequency of their travel...  Read more

Trump's Phoenix Speech, as Viewed Through Twitter

Social media reacts to the president's statements on Charlottesville, John Kelly, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and more...  Read more

Donald Trump Insults the Media, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and NAFTA at His Phoenix Rally

At his campaign-style rally in Phoenix Tuesday night, President Donald Trump reconfirmed one of the laws of his presidency...  Read more

Hillary Clinton supporters still moaning about media coverage nearly 10 months later

Team Clinton has also said that the national media gave excessive attention to the federal investigation into her email server, something they say that news organizations have not accounted for...  Read more

At Paul Ryan town hall, not a word on Russia

House Speaker Paul Ryan joined CNN's Jake Tapper for a nationally-televised town hall in Ryan's Wisconsin district Monday night...  Read more

Gulf carrier cheaters threaten US aviation jobs

The three state-owned Gulf carriers - Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways - have received over $50 billion in subsidies from their governments in the last decade, skewing the free market and putting American jobs at risk...  Read more

Choosing the next US ambassador to Germany

Germans will have little patience for platitudes as a substitute for substantive diplomatic dialogue...  Read more

Congressional Republicans Applaud Trump's Afghanistan Speech

Lindsey Graham expresses gratitude that Trump will 'listen to his generals and take their advice.'...  Read more

Sending More Troops To Afghanistan Is a Good Start

President Trump deserves credit for making a difficult decision, but he also needs to avoid the mistakes of his predecessors...  Read more

Don't add bad policy to oil industry headwinds

While the American oil and gas sector was in the midst of its renaissance over the last decade, it was difficult to imagine a situation in which profits, jobs, and domestic energy production would slow down in any significant way...  Read more

Trump's North Korea rhetoric finds vindication

President Trump's hard line rhetoric on North Korea is working...  Read more

Trump expected to boost US troop levels in Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY DECIDED: President Trump plans to spell out his decision on how to break the stalemate in Afghanistan in a 9 p.m. EDT television address at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va, with an audience of U.S. troops...  Read more

Civil rights are alive and the terrorists are dead -- now that's a great idea!

We hope President Trump responds by keeping civil rights alive while killing as many terrorists as possible...  Read more

'Top Chef' case exposes outdated labor laws

A federal jury in Boston acquitted four Teamsters union members of conspiracy and extortion charges, despite their widely publicized harassment of "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi...  Read more

After Trump's Charlottesville failure, the only choices aren't racism or liberalism

President Trump missed an opportunity to bring the country together around the racially charged issue that most unites us: the unequivocal rejection of obvious hate groups...  Read more

Don't change the State Department's mission statement

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "Our interests, in the end, rest on our values. I am concerned because the country seems to be veering away from the values that are so foundational for us."...  Read more

Republicans dismayed by Trump's behavior in Charlottesville aftermath

White House aides and congressional Republicans are struggling to find their footing after President Trump's frenetic response to racial violence in Charlottesville, Va. this week plunged his administration into new depths of chaos...  Read more

Trump Now Campaigning Against Jeff Flake and the GOP Senate Majority

For the first time, Donald Trump has inserted himself into a 2018 Republican primary against an incumbent. The president tweeted Thursday morning that it was “great” to see Trump nemesis Jeff Flake of Arizona get a Republican challenger...  Read more