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Kelly increasingly isolated as Porter scandal rages on - Turbulence in this West Wing is typically generated by President Donald Trump, but for the past week, it's been chief of staff John Kelly - the man brought in to be a steadying hand - who's inspiring what one White House official described as a crisis of confidence. White House Was Warned of Aide's Background Months Earlier Than Acknowledged - WASHINGTON - Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, contradicted on Tuesday the White House timeline about the domestic abuse scandal involving Rob Porter, the president's former staff secretary.
Kelly increasingly isolated as Porter scandal rages on - Turbulence in this West Wing is typically generated by President Donald Trump, but for the past week, it's been chief of staff John Kelly - the man brought in to be a steadying hand - who's inspiring what one White House official described as a crisis of confidence. White House Was Warned of Aide's Background Months Earlier Than Acknowledged - WASHINGTON - Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, contradicted on Tuesday the White House timeline about the domestic abuse scandal involving Rob Porter, the president's former staff secretary.
Herb Keinon , writing in the Jerusalem Post, argues that Russia could be a big loser if, as seems increasingly likely, Israel is drawn into a fight with Iran in Syria. He explains: Russia moved forces into Syria in 2015 with one purpose in mind: Save Syrian President Bashar Assad.
That's the name given to the work of liberal writer Jennifer Mendelsohn, who has spent a lot of time digging into the ancestry of those who have expressed support for reducing immigration. The purpose of such activity is to shame immigration hawks with the argument that their ancestors would not have been let into the country under President Trump's proposals.
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Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too - The allegations against Rob Porter, the recently departed White House staff secretary, are morally disturbing. Multiple ex-wives have accused him of abusive behavior, and while he disputes those accusations, the FBI found them credible enough John Kelly faces pressure over handling of Rob Porter allegations - White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is facing continued scrutiny over his handling of domestic abuse accusations against a former senior aide.
The SAME DEEP STATE Team that spied on Donald Trump's Transition Team and worked to exonerate Crooked Hillary Clinton in the sham email investigation is now working to impede, block, delay, lie, deflect from any Congressional investigator sniffing out their trail of crimes. The Last Refuge at Conservative Treehouse put together this string of very important findings regarding the unlawful spying on the Trump Campaign, the Trump Transition Team and the Trump administration by the deep state apparatus.
China's mission to eradicate its coal industry is having the unfortunate side effect of making life unbearable for the communist country's working poor, according to a report Saturday from The New York Times. A brutal crackdown on the industry is creating a raging black market in coal in parts of China, the report notes .
A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent 21 2 -year marriage - allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him. The abrupt departure of David Sorensen, a speechwriter who worked under senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, came as The Washington Post was reporting on a story about abuse claims by his ex-wife, Jessica Corbett.
Top White House official to leave West Wing to become drug czar - WH: We all could have done better with Porter - White House deputy chief of staff Jim Carroll, who has served in that role for nearly three months, is expected to leave the White House to helm the Office Intel experts: Trump's fixation on Twitter and Fox threatens national security - Trump's short attention span puts the country at risk. - As Trump enters his second year in office, his focus on the important parts of his job isn't getting any better.
Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage - allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the University of Washington from charging a college Republican group $17,000 in security fees for hosting a controversial speaker on campus. The student group invited Joey Gibson, head of Patriot Prayer, a conservative group known for rallies in support of President Donald Trump in liberal enclaves, to speak at a campus rally on Saturday.
The Justice Department's third-ranking official, Rachel Brand, resigned Friday to take a senior job at Walmart Inc., adding to the turmoil at an agency facing multiple vacancies and criticism from various sources, including the White House. Ms. Brand will be a Walmart executive vice president and corporate secretary, the company said Friday.
The White House denied Friday a request to release a Democratic memo that aimed to rebut GOP allegations regarding the investigation of a onetime associate of President Donald Trump, sending it back for revisions due to national-security concerns.
President Donald Trump privately questioned his team's response to domestic-abuse allegations against a key lieutenant who resigned this week, placing much of the blame on two senior aides who had been deemed untouchable inside a White House marked by frequent turnover.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are probing a collection of unverified and salacious allegations against Donald Trump that was compiled in late 2016 by a freelance journalist and researcher named Cody Shearer, who then passed his work along to an associate of Hillary Clinton. Mr. Shearer wrote eight pages of raw and unverified notes that are purportedly drawn from interviews with two prominent journalists and Russian intelligence contacts, among others.
With Democratic and Republican leaders agreeing on a two-year spending plan, WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains why the agreement, if it becomes law, could change the way Congress operates. Photo: Getty WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump signed a two-year budget deal Friday morning, along with a stopgap spending bill to end a brief government shutdown.
The two top Republicans in Pennsylvania's Legislature submitted a new state congressional map Friday evening, the latest turn in a high-stakes drama that could help determine control of the U.S. House. Leaders in the GOP-led state Senate and House sent proposed redrawn districts to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, beating a deadline imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month when it found the old map in violation of the state constitution.
With Democratic and Republican leaders agreeing on a two-year spending plan, WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains why the agreement, if it becomes law, could change the way Congress operates. Photo: Getty WASHINGTON-Passage of a two-year budget deal Friday was a rare feat of bipartisanship in Congress, but it exposed divisions within both the Democratic and Republican parties that will linger in legislative debates and midterm-election politics for months to come.
Military is investigating at least a dozen sailors for suspicion of buying, selling, and using LSD, ecstasy and other drugs WASHINGTON-The U.S. Navy is investigating at least a dozen U.S. sailors based in Japan, some serving aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, for suspicion of buying, selling, and using LSD, ecstasy and other drugs, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.