Cutting Trump slack: Voters forgive reversals _ to a point

The president's recent shifts in position on big foreign policy issues have got his supporters pondering: Are the reversals worth a mere shrug of the shoulders, or are they a cause for greater concern. Where critics see a flip-flopper, many Trump voters see the kind of recalibrating that's to be expected from any new president, even more so for the first in history to land in the Oval Office without any government or military experience.

Republicans in a funk: Washington Post opinion

In this April 1, 2017 file photo, Republican GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes with his wife Susan Estes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Republicans escaped a special House election in Kansas with a single-digit victory in a district where they have romped in the past, an early warning sign for the GOP at the start of Donald Trump's presidency.

US Senator Pushes Back Against Trump’s Proposed Foreign Aid Cuts

Face-to-face with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strongly defended U.S. foreign aid on Friday despite President Donald Trump's proposed deep cuts in humanitarian assistance. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee visited the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis in northern Uganda, just across the border from South Sudan, in a pointed response to Trump's "America First" platform that would slash funds for diplomacy and foreign aid.

Fed up: 9 ultranationalist Trump supporters who are rapidly losing patience with his presidency

To understand just how fractious and ungainly the Trump coalition truly is, look no further than his administration. You'll find establishment Republicans , former Tea Party insurgents , Wall Street players and, for the time being, clash-of-civilization ethno-nationalists , not a few of whom seem to be working at cross purposes.

Donald Trump mocked by Canadian beer-maker with ‘Fake News Ale’

A craft brewery slated to open shop in Toronto this summer plans to pay tribute to President Trump with its first beer: "Fake News Ale." Northern Maverick said Monday that "Fake News Ale" will be available at its Toronto brewery when it opens to the public in the coming weeks in addition to being soon available to beer drinkers across Ontario.

Video: Yes, yes, the new “Star Wars” trailer is out. Here you go.

Just a teaser trailer, designed to whet your appetite without giving away key plot details, but it looks like the original Mary Sue will be training the next-gen Mary Sue in the ways of the Jedi, a parallel of Luke's training with Obi Wan and Yoda. Star Wars XXVII, in which Rey trains a next-next-next-next-gen Mary Sue, should be hitting theaters sometime around 2050.

Syria’s Assad says Idlib chemical attack a ‘fabrication’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed Thursday that the alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun was a "fabrication" to justify the U.S. missile strike. The United States told Russian Federation at the United Nations on Wednesday that is it isolating itself by continuing to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Britain said its scientists found sarin was used in a deadly toxic gas attack on Syrian civilians last week.

“Trumpgrets” comes to the movement

I wrote about it for Salon this morning: The story of the regretful Donald Trump voter has already become a clichA . It started even before the inauguration, with reporters venturing out into the wilds of Real America to talk to the most fascinating people on earth and find out how they're feeling on any given day.

N. Korean official: Ready for war if Trump wants it

Han Song Ryol said the situation on the Korean Penin... . In this undated photo distributed on Friday, April 14, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, watches a military drill at an undisclosed location.

Democrats Pressure Trump To Keep Protections On Nat’l Monuments

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House Democrats back bill prohibiting Mass. inmates from working on Trump’s wall

Several senior ranking House Democrats threw their weight behind a proposal on Thursday to prohibit inmates from being used to build President Donald Trump's border wall as part of their efforts to provide a check on the White House's impact in Massachusetts. The working group created by House Speaker Robert DeLeo to guide the House's response to the Trump administration also voted to recommend a bill that would essentially block state law enforcement from participating in a federal program to train local officers as immigration enforcement agents.

COLUMN: If it looks and talks like a nationalist, it’s a nationalist

Luckily for Americans of relative intelligence, Press Secretary Sean Spicer's major faux pas was met almost immediately with a swarm of uproar, outrage and demands for retraction, answered by a recantation and apology. Ironically, the latest Spicer scandal also came during the same week as French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's controversial denial of the French government's complicity and cooperation in rounding up Jewish citizens during World War II - an unfortunate and studied reality of the Vichy regime.

Analysis: Trump risks turning Breitbart into an enemy by sidelining Bannon – Fri, 14 Apr 2017 PST

The seeds of Breitbart's resentment were sown months before President Donald Trump cut down chief strategist Stephen Bannon this week. Now the question is whether the hard-right news site that cheered Trump to victory - and sent Bannon, its former chairman, to the White House - will turn on the president.

North Korean official: Pyongyang ready for war if Trump wants it

President Donald Trump's tweets are adding fuel to a "vicious cycle" of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's vice foreign minister told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Friday. The official added that if the U.S. shows any sign of "reckless" military aggression, Pyongyang is ready to launch a pre-emptive strike of its own.

Trump has made US ‘more vicious’ and aggressive, North Korean official says

North Korea's vice foreign minister on Friday blamed President Donald Trump for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula through his tweets and expansion of military exercises, saying the U.S. was becoming "more vicious and more aggressive" under his leadership than it had been under President Barack Obama. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang, Vice Minister Han Song Ryol also warned the U.S. against provoking North Korea militarily.

Trump’s ‘Obamacare’ fixes don’t impress insurers

The Trump administration released limited fixes Thursday for shaky health insurance markets, but insurers quickly said those actions won't guarantee stability for millions of consumers now covered. While calling it a step in the right direction, the industry is looking for a guarantee that the government will also keep paying billions in "cost-sharing" subsidies.

Democrats pressure Trump to keep national monuments

Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. Obama infuriated Utah Republicans when he created the monument in late December on 1.3 million acres of land that is sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.