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Shock Poll Shows Trump at Just 50 Percent with GOP Primary Voters

Why is Trump's pollster touting a poll showing Trump under 50 percent in Republican primary?...  Read more

Why Trump couldn't quit Afghanistan

President Trump was booed when he gave a long, angry speech in Phoenix; he was cheered when he vowed to continue a long, futile war in Afghanistan...  Read more

Trump gives Republicans whiplash swinging from conciliatory to confrontational rhetoric

President Trump bookended a free-wheeling rally on Tuesday evening — which featured attacks on the media and incumbent Republicans — with a pair of disciplined speeches both before and afterward that promoted unity...  Read more

Why Pakistan matters

Around 53 percent of Pakistan's nearly 200 million citizens are 24 years old or younger, and most are poor and angry...  Read more

Frustrated by governing, Trump returns to campaigning

President Trump returned to what works for him: campaigning. Governing is still very much a work in progress...  Read more

Trump goes to Yuma: Walls can work, but they can't work alone

Trump likes to say that "walls work," even though he has already proven that illegal immigration can be sharply curtailed without them...  Read more

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