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Trump's best day as president

President Trump has surprised everyone again and again; when he ran for the White House, when he won the Republican primary and when he won the White House, to name only the three most obvious occasions...  Read more

Trump looks and sounds like a president, to his political benefit

President Trump over the course of one hour on Tuesday delivered a remarkably well-crafted, conventional speech to a joint session of Congress that could reset the political contours of his young presidency and boost support for his agenda...  Read more

New VA Secretary Proposes Lifting Restrictions on Veterans Seeking Private Care

On Sunday, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin told the Disabled American Veterans conference in Arlington, Virginia that he was thinking about lifting restrictions on veterans who wish to receive private medical care...  Read more

Can Factory Jobs Be Made in America Again?

For nearly 20 years, Michael Philbeck drove forklifts and fixed machines at a factory here that makes materials for car tires...  Read more

Trump: A 'revved up' economy is going to pay for more military spending

President Trump anticipates money for his increased spending on the military and other campaign promises to come from a "revved up" economy he says is already beginning to roar under his watch...  Read more

Conservative-leaning veterans group launches direct-mail campaign for Gorsuch

The mailers from the conservative-leaning veterans advocacy group will land in several predominantly red states...  Read more

Budget cuts need to include entitlements

The swamp is as swampy as it is thanks to $3.5 trillion in federal spending that washes through Washington every year. Draining it requires that vast amount of money be reduced...  Read more

Rodin at the Met

Auguste Rodin— almost the last great figure sculptor—shares a rare distinction with history's two greatest visual artists, Leonardo and Michelangelo...  Read more

North Korea Is Definitely a State Sponsor of Terrorism

Since 2009, each edition of the State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism has contained a cheerful fiction...  Read more

Bill targets environmental lawsuits that block infrastructure projects

Not allowing citizens to sue the government over permits for projects that could affect them limits due process, one activist said...  Read more

FERC sidelined while energy subsidy fight rages

The nation's grid watchdog has been out of service for nearly a month because of political wrangling in Washington, and already the ripple effects are forcing a faceoff among states, the utility industry and fossil fuel companies over nuclear subsidies...  Read more

How Republicans could try to get importers to support tax reform

Enough Republican senators have raised concerns about the import tax’s effects on consumer prices that the math for passing reform in the upper chamber is daunting...  Read more

A Mere Blip in the Bathroom Wars?

The bathroom wars wage on. Repealing the Obama-era edict that hardened the conflict, as President Trump did Wednesday, changes little in practice...  Read more

Pants on Fireball

Is there nothing so louche that Trump supporters won't indulge in it?...  Read more

Democratic congressman Jim Himes: GOP would be impeaching Clinton if she behaved like Trump

A Democratic congressman said Friday if Hillary Clinton were elected president and a report came out about her chief of staff contacting the FBI about an open case, Republicans would be impeaching her the next day...  Read more

Tensions rise as China defends missile sites in South China Sea

China has claimed sovereignty over approximately 90 percent of the South China Sea, a subject of hot dispute...  Read more

Trump's CPAC speech a return to 'the start of it all'

President Trump's journey to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday will bring full circle a political journey that started six years earlier with the provocative speech he delivered to the same crowd...  Read more

Republicans turn to the telephone to avoid hostile crowds

Some lawmakers are turning to conference calls with their constituents to avoid the hostile crowds that have greeted Republicans at their town halls across the country...  Read more