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Evan Vucci / AP Why Didn’t the White House See Domestic Violence as Disqualifying?
That the president’s staff was unable to recognize the seriousness of the allegations against Rob Porter may reflect how many members of his team have faced similar claims—including Trump himself.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Republicans Release the Nunes Memo to the Fury of Democrats
President Trump authorized the release of the unredacted memorandum over strident objections from top law-enforcement officials, as Democrats blasted it as deliberately misleading.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Trump's Immigration Plan Receives a Chilly Reception
Republicans are banking on passing legislation on the issue to help them coast into November—and they’ll need Democratic votes to make it happen.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters There's No Way Mueller Will Indict Trump
Those hoping the special counsel will prosecute the president are engaging in fantasy.
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Haim Zach GPO This Is Not the Israel Trip Mike Pence Had Planned
The U.S. vice president promised peace in the country’s newly recognized capital, but his itinerary showed that a deal is far beyond reach.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters 'He’s Chosen This Movement as His Own'
At the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., pro-life activists said the president has a lot to be proud of.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP How Trump Will Try to Minimize a Government Shutdown
The administration plans to keep national parks and public lands partially open even without congressional funding, drawing criticism from Sally Jewell, the former secretary of the interior.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
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AP How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government
Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Psychiatrist Telling Congress Trump Could Be Involuntarily Committed
A Yale professor says she’s telling lawmakers that the president may actually be “dangerous.”
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Saul Loeb / Getty Images Who Is Steve Bannon Without Breitbart?
Just a few months after leaving the Trump administration, the former top White House adviser has been pushed out of the conservative outlet he helped make influential.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump Disbands His 'Voter Fraud' Commission
Launched after the president claimed millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election, the panel faced stiff opposition and numerous lawsuits.
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Kevin Liles The Voters of Alabama
Portraits from the Yellowhammer state, where Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in the special election for Senate on Tuesday
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Alex Wong / Getty Trump Tests the Limits of Shame
The president attacked a senator who has emerged as a crusader against all manner of sexual misbehavior by political leaders.
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Reuters Can Forensic Linguistics Pin Down the Author of a Trump Tweet?
Using data to assess whether the president's lawyer really wrote a message that renewed questions about obstruction of justice.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Selective Memory
The attorney general’s sworn testimony before the Senate is at odds with other accounts.
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Library of Congress What Is a 'Proactive Cooperator'?
Former Trump foreign-policy aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents during the Russia investigation, may have been secretly cooperating with investigators for months.
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Keith Lane / Getty How the Manafort Indictment Gave Bite to a Toothless Law
The prosecution of Trump’s former campaign chairman and his associate Rick Gates could be the most significant prosecution under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ever.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Is Really Unprecedented About Trump?
In many respects, the way that the president thinks about politics is utterly conventional.
