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It was tough finding someone to fill her shoes, but the WH has announced a new press secretary who will continue her fine work.

Almost 7 in 10 say the federal government is doing a bad job of governing, including 43% who say it's the worst job of governing in their lifetimes. https://www.kvia.com/news/politics/poll-4-in-10-call-this-worst-governing-of-their-lifetimes/1001004631

Hugely complicated. No wonder Mueller has been raking in the perps. https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/timeline-russia-investigation/?fbclid=IwAR1FB87sZP0WoXaphqh2zPxrCzc0cXP-Uwr0uWaQTSPVBRpeCHS6lnYH3ig

Phillips says the Know Nothings displayed three patterns common to all other nativist movements. First is the embrace of nationalism—as seen in the writings of the OSSB. Second is religious discrimination: in this case, Protestants against Catholics rather than the more modern day squaring-off...

More Americans blame Trump for the government shutdown The two YouGov polls found a 4-point increase in those blaming Trump. There was a 4-point increase among registered voters who most blamed Trump in the two Morning Consult polls. And surveys from Reuters/Ipsos also found a 4-point increase...

Michael Cohen Agrees to Testify to Congress About Work for Trump WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer who implicated him in a scheme to pay hush money to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, has agreed to testify before the House Oversight...

The Russian agent involved in the infamous Trump Tower meeting has been arrested in an unrelated matter. It has been discovered that she has much more extensive connections with high-level Russian officials than we had been told, after the meeting. Again, it's in a matter unrelated to the...

Three of them so far, say it’s not true. There are only four living ex-presidents. One WH policy should be "honesty is the best policy." President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along...

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to visit the border this week as “ beyond moronic” in a series of angry posts to social media. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Twitter earlier today that the president will travel to...

Dems Want to Know If Bolton Told White House About Contact With Alleged Spy National security adviser appeared with Butina at gun rights roundtable when he worked for NRA https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/dems-want-know-bolton-told-white-house-contact-alleged-spy

The Anti-Defamation League has identified 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents in its 2017 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. That's up from 1,267 in 2016, marking the highest single-year increase since the organization released its first audit in 1979. The annual audit tracks incidents of vandalism...

A new study shows that viewers who get their news from Fox News are the most misinformed in the country. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers...

WASHINGTON — Senior Republican Party leaders began urging their most imperiled incumbents on Wednesday to speak out about the wrongdoing surrounding President Trump, with Representative Tom Cole, a former House Republican campaign chairman, warning, “Where there’s smoke, and there’s a lot of...

A British former spy has been exonerated by a US court for producing a dossier which made claims about the Trump campaign and its links to Russia. Christopher Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, were sued by three Russian oligarchs - Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan – for libel...

Facts are piling up, and it’s getting harder to deny what’s staring us in the face. At the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump attacked a close European ally—Germany—and generally questioned the value of the alliance. Next, he visited the United Kingdom and trashed Prime Minister Theresa May. Then...

This week, Barack Obama delivered a long and thoughtful defense of liberalism, pluralism, and democracy against strongman populism. The themes, which in nearly all respects tracked the ideas he promoted throughout his presidency, came in pointed contrast to the contemporaneous spectacle of his...

Senate Rebuffs Russia Interviews of Americans in Rebuke to Trump The Republican-led Senate effectively rebuked President Donald Trump for considering Russia’s request to question U.S. officials, giving voice to growing unease over the president’s shifting policies toward his country’s biggest...

After U.S. President Donald Trump’s Helsinki debacle, it is time to take stock of what the substantive damage caused by his conduct might entail. This is not to gloss over the anger in response to his betrayal of the United States in front of one of its most dedicated adversaries. I share that...