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The Trump administration is in the throes of one of the greatest self-inflicted distractions of the modern presidency. The latest chapter comes from J...

Of all the arguments to make for repealing and replacing Obamacare, the very worst is that people don't need health insurance. Yet this is a Trump adm...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Jim Langevin, D-R.I., recently sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump to highlight the im...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump finally gave Republicans what they've spent months begging him to deliver: a pivot to presidential behavior. The questi...

WASHINGTON — Some American disasters come as bolts from the blue — the stock market crash of October 1929, Pearl Harbor, the designated hitter, 9/11. ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Trump administration appears to be easing away from longstanding U.S. support for Palestinian statehood as the preferred outcome ...

WASHINGTON — To sum up President Trump's first month in office, he has exceeded everyone's expectations. To those who opposed him, he's worse than exp...

WASHINGTON — On March 21, 1973, White House counsel John Dean confronted President Richard Nixon about the growing Watergate scandal. "We have a cance...

Hey, Republicans: Ready to take him literally yet? Two days after the election, I spoke with Grover Norquist, a conservative tax activist who had made...

The work of unraveling President Barack Obama's legacy is underway, but even if the Trump administration and a Republican Congress reverse every last ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had d...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come in quietly and...

President Barack Obama has finally had it with Russia. It only took eight years of cold reality — topped off by the Russian interference in the Novemb...

Will Donald Trump deprive President Obama of what we have come to think of as a normal post-presidency, the relatively serene life of reflection, writ...

WASHINGTON — Welcome to — brace yourself for — the post-truth presidency. "Facts are stubborn things," said John Adams in 1770, defending British sold...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, has become the second Upstate congressman to help President-elect Donald Trump’s transition into the White House. Trump...

WASHINGTON — In this season of Thanksgiving, a quirky source of gratitude has emerged — Donald Trump's many campaign lies. What else can one call the ...

WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks into the reality that Donald Trump will be our next president, the situation feels more ominous than on election nigh...

WASHINGTON — If you'd never heard of Steve Bannon before Tuesday, you have now. All the world is suddenly abuzz with news that President-elect Donald ...