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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Utterly Untruthful President'
Trump and Senator Bob Corker are at it again, as the Tennessee Republican says the commander in chief is not a role model for the nation’s children and vows not to support him for reelection.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters What John McCain Gets Wrong About Trump's Nationalism
The last seventy-five years of American foreign policy are not the story of a country consistently pursuing democratic ideals, only to see them undermined now by a fearful “blood and soil” isolationism.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters How Al-Qaeda Benefits From America's Political Divisions
If the United States wishes to defeat Osama bin Laden's heirs and the toxic potency of their message, it needs to recommit to its most basic values.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty Trump's Trade Agenda Divides the Nation's Cities
The administration has inserted a wedge between the large metropolitan areas known for top-notch services and the small and mid-sized metros focused on manufacturing.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Courtesy of Jan M. Lodal Brezhnev's Secret Pledge to 'Do Everything We Can' to Reelect Gerald Ford
As the Cold War raged in 1975, a Russian leader promised his support for a president’s reelection bid.
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Mikhail Voskresensky / Reuters Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
“I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests,” Browder writes.
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Department of Justice Hobby Lobby Purchased Thousands of Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
The craft-supply giant, which will open its Museum of the Bible in D.C. this fall, will pay a $3 million settlement.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Donald Trump Offers to Help Charlie Gard
The president of the United States stepped in to defend a British infant whose life support will be removed after European courts sided with doctors against his parents.
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Reuters Pope Francis, Trump Whisperer?
What started as a cold meeting between the pontiff and the U.S. president turned friendly after a brief closed-door discussion.
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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters The Trump Official the FBI Was Investigating
Carter Page would be the first known candidate advisor to be directly monitored during a presidential campaign as a possible agent of a foreign power.
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Hassan Ammar / AP Trump's Action in Syria Is 'Just the Latest Blip on a Deeper Story'
The American public is always ready to pay attention to military strikes. But what does the president’s decision mean for the humanitarian crisis?
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Reuters It's Official: The FBI Is Investigating Trump's Links to Russia
Director James Comey told Congress on Monday that the 2016 probe includes possible contacts between the campaign and the Kremlin.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP President Trump's 'Hard Power' Budget
Allocating more money for defense and a lot less for diplomacy, the White House is unveiling a spending proposal that’s meant to reflect campaign promises more than it’s meant to get through Congress.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Michael Flynn's Debacle
Trump’s national security adviser’s potentially false statements about his pre-inauguration contacts with Russian officials are a major scandal.
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J.C. Buttre / Wikimedia Frederick Douglass, Refugee
Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.
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Kate Munsch / Reuters Will the Courts Find Trump's Ban Unconstitutional?
The outcome of the battle over Trump’s travel ban focused on seven mostly Muslim nations is hard to predict.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Cracks Appear in the Trump-Republican Alliance
Senior GOP lawmakers said that the White House failed to consult them before issuing the president’s executive order on immigration Friday.
