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The FBI has obtained wiretapped conversations of a Kremlin-linked banker who later met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election. Spanish national police provided the FBI with tapes of Russian oligarch Alexander Torshin's phone calls with a convicted Russian money launderer...

We told you yesterday why elected Republicans go so silent so quickly when they disagree so strongly with President Trump: They fear it's political suicide to speak up. Now we have an exclusive, new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll that shows why those fears are real: Data: SurveyMonkey online poll...

Conservative columnist George Will on Tuesday called President Trump a "sad, embarrassing wreck of a man" in criticizing his performance at this week's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Will said Republicans should be embarrassed by Trump's remarks at the summit Helsinki, Finland...

Now the import/export bank puts another squeeze on American manufacturing And who ran on bringing jobs back to the U.S.?

Here's what Americans think: Obama is the clear favorite. A little surprising that Trump did as well as he did.

CHICAGO — Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their party in a Chicago-area congressional district. Now they’re paying the price. Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who will appear on the November ballot as the GOP candidate against Democratic...

"When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for...

Iowa Republican leaders voiced concern Tuesday about a trade war after President Donald Trump upped the trade ante with China, threatening to slap tariffs on another $200 billion of products. "We know what happens when tariffs are increased ... and there's retaliation. It hurts agriculture...

Flynn's lawyers and the prosecutors of his case are moving to delay his sentencing, and a judge is going to be asking why. The most likely case is that Flynn still has information that can buy him less time in stir, and the prosecutors are willing to wait until they have it all.

Can President Trump be forced to testify before a grand jury? Can President Trump be forced to testify before a grand jury? Two Supreme Court decisions may point the way to an answer. Trump’s former attorney says that Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation, has...

During a Senate hearing in late January, Ed Markey asked then-EPA director Scott Pruitt about a little rumor that he’d overheard. “It’s my understanding,” the Massachusetts senator said, “that the EPA has finalized its conclusion that formaldehyde causes leukemia and other cancers and that [the]...

Trump finally does something to drain the swamp.

Across the United States on Wednesday, Americans will set off fireworks and celebrate Independence Day. But a poll released Monday suggests that, on this July 4, fewer U.S. adults are extremely proud to be American than at any point since 2001. For the first time in Gallup’s polling, which...

The first casualties of President Trump’s trade war are 60 workers at Mid-Continent Nail, America’s largest nail manufacturer. They lost their jobs on June 15 at a factory in a part of Missouri that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. The whole company could be out of business by Labor Day. ...

In one way, Donald Trump’s attack on our foreign trade partners resembles his attack on immigrants: in each case, the attack is framed as a response to evildoing that exists only in his imagination. No, there isn’t a wave of violent crime by immigrants, and MS-13 isn’t taking over American...

"I made a deal with him. I shook hands with him..." "The Art of the Deal", you betcha.

Remarkable moment in the President’s discussion of tariffs today when he suggested that his tariffs may be able to fund the government in place of income taxes. He references the McKinley era when this was the case, prior to the enactment of a federal income tax. Of course federal expenditures...