The Latest: Pence disappointed Obama back on trail

Former President Barack Obama is blasting Republicans, saying "the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party." Vice President Mike Pence says it's disappointing that former President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail criticizing President Donald Trump.

‘Not Here, Not Now’: Gov. Brown Signs Bill Blocking Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Saturday effectively prohibiting new federal offshore oil drilling along California's coast, and announced that he opposes plans to expand crude exploration on public lands in the state. The legislation he signed blocks the Trump administration's plan to expand offshore oil drilling through the prohibition on new leases for new construction of oil and gas-related infrastructure, such as oil pipelines.

Report: Photos of Trump’s inauguration were edited to seem like crowd was larger

A government photographer edited pictures from President Donald Trump's inauguration to make the crowd size appear larger than it actually was after the president was unhappy with how the event looked in photos, according to records obtained by The Guardian. After repeated requests from the White House for new pictures, the photographer cropped the areas where there were no people to make it appear that the crowd filled the frame, according to The Guardian .

The Latest: Obama says midterms chance at political ‘sanity’

Appearing in Southern California on Saturday, the former president took another swipe at his successor as he raised his profile campaigning for fellow Democrats to regain control of the House. Obama didn't mention President Donald Trump by name during a 20-minute speech in the key Southern California battleground of Orange County.

Trump accuses Google of RIGGING search results to only show ‘fake news’

Paul Manafort held days of talks with Mueller's team about flipping while jury mulled his fate in first trial Google uses a complex algorithm to decide what a user sees in their search results, though its exact workings are a corporate secret The President unloaded on the tech firm in a pair of tweets on Tuesday morning which promised to 'address' the 'very serious situation'. Donald Trump launched into an attack on Google on Tuesday morning, accusing the web giant of rigging its search results to make him look bad Trump threatened to address what he called 'a very serious situation', though it is not clear how he intends to do this 'In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD.

John McCain’s Death Brought Out the Worst in the Trump Administration

You can tell a lot about a person, and a presidential administration, by the way they handle small, symbolic things. The White House's handling of the American flag in the aftermath of Senator John McCain's death is providing a good test of the Trump team.

US and Mexico tentatively set to replace NAFTA with new deal

Snubbing Canada, the Trump administration reached a preliminary deal Monday with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement - a move that raised legal questions and threatened to disrupt the operations of companies that do business across the three-country trade bloc. President Donald Trump suggested that he might leave Canada, America's No.

Who is Bruce Ohr? Justice official has attracted GOP ire Source: AP

Bruce Ohr was a relatively anonymous lawyer at the Justice Department for more than 25 years. But he's now caught up in a Republican maelstrom of criticism toward the department, with some of President Donald Trump's allies implying that he helped conspire against Trump's election.

White House flags back at full-staff after McCain death

Flags at the White House were back at full-staff Monday, even as Senate leaders of both parties formally requested American flags at government buildings stay at half-staff to honor Sen. John McCain. Aides to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Charles Schumer requested that the Department of Defense keep flags at government buildings lowered until the sunset after McCain is buried in Annapolis, Maryland, next Sunday.

Cohen’s lawyer walks back claim Trump knew of Russia meeting

Another day, another twist in what Michael Cohen may - or may not - know about Donald Trump, Russian dirt and the 2016 election. Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, is walking back his assertions that his client, the president's former "fixer," could tell a special prosecutor that Trump had prior knowledge of a meeting with a Russian lawyer to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Trump will not attend John McCain’s funeral, McCain family…

President Donald Trump will not be attending the funeral or memorial services in Washington for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a McCain family spokesman said Monday. Rick Davis, who is also McCain's campaign manager and longtime adviser, said at a news conference in Phoenix that Vice President Mike Pence will serve as the Trump administration designee at a ceremony honoring McCain on Friday at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Vietnam says US Senator John McCain helped ‘heal the wounds of war’

US Senator John McCain was a "symbol of his generation" who helped "heal the wounds of war" by pushing for diplomatic normalisation of ties with Vietnam, the Southeast Asian country's foreign minister said on Monday. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday.

A life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote for McCain

For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career. The fate of President Donald Trump's long effort to repeal Barack Obama's health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017.