President Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, in a major staff reshuffle just as Trump dives into high-stakes talks with North Korea. Trump announced the change in a tweet early Tuesday just four hours after Tillerson returned to Washington from a trip to Africa.

What Fresh Hell?: Time to build your Trumpa” fallout shelter edition

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story's roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried - or were at least under-appreciated - due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. Big news for the Korean Peninsula: Two notoriously thin-skinned authoritarian leaders who have been trading childish insults and comparing the size of their respective nuclear buttons for the past year will meet in a hastily arranged summit in a couple of months.

Fox News keeps running columns from the same guy explaining, “I’m a…

Bryan Dean Wright, a consultant looking for career opportunities and freelance gigs, has found the perfect publicity gimmick to get in outlets like Fox News: proclaiming he's "a Democrat but" agreeing with Republican positions. Wright is a former CIA officer whose personal website states that he's available as a consultant to "businesses, philanthropic groups, and governmental bodies," as well as for speaking engagements and media work.

The Oscars go through an awkward stage

Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Allison Janney, and Gary Oldman pose in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awardsin Hollywood, California. CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic By the time Jimmy Kimmel, host of the 90th Academy Awards, took the stage at the Dolby Theatre, there was already an uncomfortable tension surrounding what Hollywood loves to call its biggest night.

Devin Nunes: Stephen Colbert memo skit an example of how ‘conservatives are under attack’

We have serious abuses that occurred in the FISA court against the Trump campaign." #Cavuto pic.twitter.com/zvhMSu2LSd Fox News March 3, 2018 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said "conservatives in this country are under attack" after late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert filmed a segment poking fun at his panel's recently released memo on alleged government surveillance abuses.

Where Ivanka’s husband went wrong

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner should not be working in the White House. RATTLED by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that's grim about any prospect of a reset.

Trump adrift: Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation

Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that's grim about any prospect of a reset. Even by the standards of Trump's often chaotic administration, the announcement of Hope Hicks' imminent exit spread new levels of anxiety across the West Wing and cracked open disputes that had been building since the White House's botched handling of domestic violence allegations against a senior aide late last month.

13 House Republicans call on Sessions to appoint second special counsel

The conservative lawmakers sent a letter to Sessions on Wednesday requesting that he appoint a special counsel to investigate the end of the Clinton email probe, the start of the investigation into Russia's election meddling and alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI. "We acknowledge with immense gratitude that nearly every single man and woman in the [Department of Justice] and the FBI conduct themselves daily with integrity, independence, patriotism, objectivity, and commitment to the rule of law," the letter reads.

Kandi Burruss reveals she’s the cover girl of a hair dye

EXCLUSIVE: Husband of Alabama mom, 42, who led a double life on an adult website, is arrested over her murder after insisting her death was a 'boozy accident' following a night of drinking absinthe Parkland school's armed campus police officer RESIGNS as it emerges he HID outside the school as 17 were slaughtered 14 signs of emotional abuse: From controlling your clothes to making you feel guilty - therapist reveals the subtle red flags and how to protect yourself Teenager is hailed a hero after she helped thwart another high school shooting by alerting police when her 18-year-old friend texted her about his plans to carry out an attack New Orleans District Attorney investigated Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris for sexual assault claim by Ohio woman in June but no charges were filed Is this what Jesus REALLY looked like? Delving into the past to uncover early depictions of '5ft 5in, ... (more)

Obese man lost nearly seven stone in just over a year

Tearful Lindsey Vonn, 33, MISSES OUT on gold in the final solo race of her amazing Olympic career, then hits out at the 'savage abuse' she has taken from trolls for her strong anti-Trump views REVEALED: Woman who cared for Florida shooter filed court papers demanding control of the $800,000 inheritance he was due from his mother's estate just ONE DAY after the massacre California cops thwart mass shooting plot at a high school after investigators find arsenal of guns and ammunition at home of a 'disgruntled' student, 17 Trump tweets for Republicans AND Democrats to support stronger background checks, just hours after proposing banning bump stocks in new drive for gun control 'Just because she's a woman she has to show skin?': Social media users hit out at 'depressing and sexist' photo of Jennifer Lawrence in a plunging dress alongside her Red Sparrow co-stars at freezing cold promo event ... (more)

Escaped elephant barges through hedge in India’s Karnataka

Tearful Lindsey Vonn, 33, MISSES OUT on gold in the final solo race of her amazing Olympic career, then hits out at the 'savage abuse' she has taken from trolls for her strong anti-Trump views REVEALED: Woman who cared for Florida shooter filed court papers demanding control of the $800,000 inheritance he was due from his mother's estate just ONE DAY after the massacre California cops thwart mass shooting plot at a high school after investigators find arsenal of guns and ammunition at home of a 'disgruntled' student, 17 Trump tweets for Republicans AND Democrats to support stronger background checks, just hours after proposing banning bump stocks in new drive for gun control 'Just because she's a woman she has to show skin?': Social media users hit out at 'depressing and sexist' photo of Jennifer Lawrence in a plunging dress alongside her Red Sparrow co-stars at a freezing cold ... (more)