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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?
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Mandel Ngan / Stephen Jaffe / AFP / ... No One Knows Trump’s Next Move
Part of a president’s job is to be a unifying figure in times of national crisis. This president could be past the point where he can take on that role.
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Julio Cortez / AP Ben Carson’s Appearance in Baltimore Didn’t Go as Planned
The housing secretary didn’t offer Trump the sort of full-throated defense that the president might have expected.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Inside Donald Trump and Boris Johnson’s Special Relationship
The two leaders have lavished praise on each other, but serious practical differences remain between them. How long will the honeymoon last?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Elijah Cummings Once Told Trump in Private
Two years before calling the prominent black congressman “racist,” the president was briefly humbled by him.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The White House Is Preparing for a ‘Dud’ or a ‘Dumpster Fire’
The administration is girding for potential fallout from Robert Mueller’s testimony, but like the rest of the country, officials don’t know exactly what to expect.
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Rachel Jessen ‘It Makes Us Want to Support Him More’
Amid a convulsive week in American politics, at one of the darkest rallies Donald Trump has ever held, his base showed up in force to tell the president he’s done nothing wrong.
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Alex Brandon / AP All About That Base
With his attacks on Democratic women of color and his threats to undocumented immigrants, President Trump has only one small audience in mind.
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Andrew Harnik / AP It’s a Precarious Time for Any Official in Trump’s Orbit
Alexander Acosta’s exit gratifies those who wanted him gone for his role in the Epstein plea deal. But the president’s advisers fear how more turnover reflects broader turmoil within the administration.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Tweets Take Down Another Career
The British ambassador’s critique was precisely the variety Donald Trump can’t stomach.
