White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly with then-President Trump in the Oval Office in 2018. (Associated Press) Retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, who was Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, has warned that his former boss, if elected again, would govern like a dictator, that he lacks empathy, and that … Read more
President Trump boards Air Force One. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) President Trump toured a Boeing airplane to check out new hardware and technology features and highlight the aircraft maker’s delay in delivering updated versions of the Air Force One presidential aircraft, the White House said Saturday. Trump visited the 13-year-old private aircraft parked at … Read more
President Trump, right, shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office in 2019. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Hours before President Trump was sworn in to begin his second term, promising a “golden age” for America, the leader of a Central European country was describing the years ahead in strikingly similar … Read more
County elections officials, disability-rights groups and government watchdogs called on Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to rescind a directive he issued Friday requiring that all electronic voting systems in California produce a paper ballot that voters could review. The groups complained that such a move would be costly, pose significant technological hurdles and make it … Read more
President Ronald Reagan’s aides became accustomed to figuring out things for themselves, for he managed by indirection when he managed at all. Aides who had worked for more directive presidents found this disconcerting. “He made no demands, and gave almost no instructions,” said Martin Anderson, a veteran of the Nixon Administration. Anderson thought Reagan’s management … Read more
The hallmark of the Trump administration is its quest to put exactly the wrong people in charge of agencies and policies. But his designation of Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as his point man on healthcare goes well over the line into self-parody. Put simply, one could not find a worse figurehead for a push on … Read more
President Trump has moved to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while upending the federal government and redefining the U.S. role in the world. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) As President Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American … Read more
Republican challenger David McCormick, left, and Democratic Sen. Bob Casey won their parties’ nominations Tuesday to face off for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in November. (Associated Press) Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face off in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate contest this fall, as Tuesday’s primary election put them on track … Read more
An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / Associated Press) A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the blue state’s shield law against the two red states’ strict abortion bans. Texas didn’t bring criminal charges against Dr. Maggie Carpenter, but … Read more
Presenting to the nation a military mission he described as “God’s work,” President Bush said Friday that he was dispatching thousands of American troops to Somalia to save thousands of innocent people from starvation. The President said the American people could not accept the prospect of massive numbers of Somalis dying while the food that … Read more
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