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Leah Millis / Reuters Why Firing Mick Mulvaney Is Riskier Than Keeping Him
President Trump’s third chief of staff seemed destined for the door until impeachment came along.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The Unraveling of Donald Trump
As the impeachment inquiry intensifies, some associates of the president predict that his already erratic behavior is going to get worse.
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Evan Vucci / AP Impeachment? What Impeachment? It’s Trump-Rally Time.
No Republican presidential candidate has won Minnesota since 1972. Donald Trump believes he can change that.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Mick Mulvaney’s Uncertain Fate
President Trump has not ruled out replacing his third chief of staff in less than three years.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Only Time Trump Wants International Cooperation
“America first” was the slogan that helped Trump win the presidency. But he doesn’t seem to believe it’s the tactic that will help him keep it.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty ... Trump Finally Has His Lawyer
Pat Cipollone is making the president happy. But his job is bigger than the president.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Impeachment Is Testing Trump’s Focus
The president’s first address to the UN was full of fire and fury. Now, as he faces an impeachment inquiry, that tone is gone.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump Is Discovering New Powers
He’s finding ever more risky ways to advance his personal agenda.
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Susan Walsh / AP We’re Now in the Hot Zone for Impeachment
New reports about President Trump’s calls with the Ukrainian president could push Nancy Pelosi to recalculate the politics of an attempt to remove him from office.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Quickest Path to Irrelevance in the Trump White House
John Bolton’s days were numbered from the start.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Fox News Has the Power Over Trump
The president’s recent attacks on the network barely registered inside its headquarters.
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Associated Press The End of the Golden Era of Chess
The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.
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Ray Tamarra / Getty Anthony Scaramucci Wants You to Believe Him This Time
The newest member of the anti-Trump crowd is promising to mobilize against the president: “I may have sucked as a communications director, but I’m a pretty organized entrepreneur.”
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Ludovic Marin / Pool / Reuters America’s Allies Seem to Be Moving On Without Trump
At the G7 meeting, leaders seemed to have given up on an agreement with him on trade, climate, and even whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is friend or foe.
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Pool / Reuters Trump’s Two G7 Summits
The president’s narrative stands in stark contrast to what is happening on the ground. That raises serious questions.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters A Defining Moment for Trump’s Foreign Policy
A nation that itself broke free from colonial control has, under Trump, struggled to come up with a clear, consistent position on a massive demonstration from people in Hong Kong chafing at Chinese rule.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Riskiest Bet
That old truism of American politics—“It’s the economy, stupid”—could come back to haunt the money-minded president in 2020.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Trump’s Own Aides Doubt His Latest Push on Guns
And Democrats do, too.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The Baggage Trump Brought to Dayton
The city is hovering between grief and recovery. The president didn’t unite it.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Habit of Contradicting Himself After a Tragedy
What should the country believe: his speech or his tweets?
