6 big takeaways from the extraordinary hearing on Russia, Trump and wiretapping

FBI Director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers, right, appear in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence at the Longworth House Office Building on Monday in Washington. FBI Director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers, right, appear in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence at the Longworth House Office Building on Monday in Washington.

The other women’s movement

On an evening in late January, amid fallout from President Donald Trump 's executive order temporarily barring entry into the United States to nationals of seven predominantly Muslim countries, a foreign-born Muslim-American journalist, Asra Nomani, sits at a cafe table in Washington, D.C. 's Union Station while opponents of the ban trickle by on their way back from a protest. They tote handwritten signs that say, "Refugees welcome" and, in English, Spanish, and Arabic, "No matter where you're from, we're glad you're our neighbor."

Team Trump Meets a Messy World

The Trump administration is trying to show it values traditional allies and alliances, despite the president's rhetoric suggesting the contrary In fits and starts, the nascent administration of Donald Trump is trying to show that it really does value traditional allies and alliances, despite the president's past campaign rhetoric and current Twitter flourishes suggesting the contrary. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to have a tense first meeting, based on their interaction at a photo-op after their Oval Office meeting.

Trump Calls Suggestions of Collusion with Russia ‘Fake News’

President weighs in on issue in early morning tweets, hours before a House committee holds a hearing to examine questions of Russian interference in last year's elections President Donald Trump dismissed as "FAKE NEWS" any suggestion that he "colluded" with Russia, weighing in on an issue that has shadowed his young presidency hours before a House committee is to hold a hearing that will examine questions of Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Primary takeaways: Women keep winning and a Trump tweet strikes a fatal blow to Sanford

The sitting Republican House member lost his primary race to state Rep. Katie Arrington, who campaigned as a Trump ally, after the president made a last-minute endorsement of Arrington. Sanford has been one of the few members to criticize the president, and GOP primary voters punished him for it, handing him his first electoral defeat.

Senate confirms Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid

In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Verma was confirmed by the Senate on March 13. less FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.

Trump chides media for being a rudea after Conway interviews

President Donald Trump tweeted a critique of the media for being "rude to my very hard-working representatives" on Monday, only minutes after counselor Kellyanne Conway completed a series of interviews on television morning shows. Conway's interviews, including one that appeared to signal a thaw in the administration's relationship with CNN, were at times combative, exasperating and fascinating - an illustration of how the administration and reporters are often talking past each other and how she's become something of a cult figure.

Confirmation hearing for Trump’s labor pick now March 22

The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department has been delayed until later this month. But a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, says the hearing will now be held on March 22. The spokesman, Taylor Haulsee, cites a scheduling conflict in which Alexander is to appear with Trump at an event in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday to help promote Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Barack Obama's health care law.

Hospitals worry about caring for newly uninsured in GOP plan

When Colorado expanded Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama's health care law, the largest provider in the Denver region hired more than 250 employees and built a $27 million primary care clinic and two new school-based clinics. Emergency rooms visits stayed flat as Denver Health Medical Center directed many of the nearly 80,000 newly insured patients into one of its 10 community health centers, where newly hired social workers and mental health therapists provided services for some of the county's poorest residents.

Trump budget has the GOP worried

In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump unveils a proposed budget on March 16 that will sharply test RepublicansA' ability to keep longstanding promises to beef up the military by making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.

House demands Trump hand over proof of Obama wiretap order

Trump's revised travel ban already facing legal trouble as Democratic attorneys general team up to block the new order Two fans killed and dozens more are injured in a crush at a pop concert in Argentina as attended by 300,000 people even though the venue could only hold 200,000 Found! Woman tracks down grieving boy who left heartbreaking note and $5 at her door after stealing her wind chime because it 'reminded him of his dead mom' Donald Trump must provide proof that Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him during his presidential campaign by Monday, a bipartisan group from the House intelligence committee, has said. Last week Trump tweeted: 'Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory.

Scott Baio Catches Wind Of Obama Telling America To Resist Trump- Responds Immediately

Fist, we had to deal with the former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting for "resistance" against President Donald Trump, even if it came to spilling blood in the street. Yeah, she took there Then there was this horrible, unnatural, and just plain weird Hillary Clinton video in which she tells people "there's a lot to fight for" and to "resist" Trump.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a rising star in Trump’s orbit

In this March 8, 2017, photo, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stands in front of the White House in Washington. Faced with aggressive on-air questioning about the president's wiretapping claims, Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't flinch, she went folksy.

Prudent Merkel meets unpredictable Trump amid tense ties

Europe's most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time next week America's flamboyant President Donald Trump whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic. A senior administration official skirted a question on Trump's criticism of Merkel over her stance on refugees, saying "those are German government decisions".