Outspoken general named Trump’s top security adviser

US President Donald Trump on Monday named Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser, choosing a military officer known for speaking his mind and challenging his superiors. McMaster is a highly regarded military tactician and strategic thinker, but his selection surprised some observers who wondered how the officer, whose Army career stalled at times for his questioning of authority, would deal with a White House that has not welcomed criticism.

#NotMyPresident Protest: Angry Anti-Trump Voters March On President’s Day – Pics

Hear that shouting outside your window? That's the sound of people protesting President's Day, not celebrating it. Thousands of livid voters refuse to honor Donald Trump on this national holiday, and have hit the streets to march! We've got the pics! If Donald Trump , 70, can rename "Black History Month," then we're changing President's Day to NOT My President's Day.

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"Not My President" rally protesting President Trump at Los Angeles City Hall on President's Day, Feb. 20, 2017. Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters crowded around Los Angeles City Hall Monday morning, using the Presidents Day holiday to challenge the current Commander-in-Chief as part of a nationwide “Not My President's Day” rally.

As tension simmers, John McCain becomes critic in chief of the commander in chief

Sen. John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.

Trump is making China great again

The Space Needle towers in the background Feb. 15 beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle. A board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Lester Ross, says China is preparing to retaliate if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump carries out promises to impose sanctions on Chinese goods.

Trump Pursues His Attack on Sweden, With Scant Evidence

President Donald Trump escalated his attack on Sweden's migration policies Monday, doubling down on his suggestion - based on a Fox News report - that refugees in the Scandinavian country were behind a surge in crime and terrorism. Trump set off consternation and ridicule Saturday when he seemed to falsely imply to an adoring throng at a rally in Florida that a terrorist attack had occurred in Sweden, which has admitted tens of thousands of refugees in recent years.

Homeland Security Department drafts new guidelines on detaining, deporting immigrants

The Homeland Security Department has drafted new guidelines aimed at aggressively detaining and deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to a pair of memoranda signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly. The memos dated Friday seek to implement President Donald Trump's directive to crack down on illegal immigration.

The For-Profit Presidency, Month One

One month into the Trump administration, and it's clear that there has been a wholesale corporate takeover of the government A day-by-day review of the administration's first month shows that virtually every day there has been a new, extraordinary grant of power to corporate interests and/or another development in Donald Trump's get-rich-quick-scheme known as the American presidency. Poorly attended though it might have been, the inauguration itself was a paean not just to the new president but to his corporate backers.

Trump tries to move past controversies, toward legislating

Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, her husband, senior adviser Jared Kushner, their two children Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner, Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, second from right, and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Trump is visiting Boeing South Carolina to see the Boeing 787 Dreamliner before heading to his estate Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., for the weekend.

UK lawmakers debate downgrading Trump invite for state visit

U.S. President Donald Trump should not be afforded the "rare privilege" of a state visit, a British opposition lawmaker said Monday, as Parliament debated a call for Trump's invitation to be downgraded and stripped of its royal seal of approval. The nonbinding debate was called in response to an online petition with more than 1.8 million signatures saying a formal state visit "would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."

Trumpa s first month augurs stormy trans-Atlantic relations

After President Donald Trump's raucous first month in office, Europeans have reacted with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a century of trans-Atlantic friendship may be sinking. "Too much as happened," European Union leader Donald Tusk said Monday, "for us to pretend that everything is as it used to be."

Trump election has parallels to Andrew Jacksona s presidency

An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House. Andrew Jackson's triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton last year, and some of those most eager to point that out are in the Trump White House.

Retreat From Electoral Vote Boast Shows Trump Can Be Forced to Acknowledge Reality

Donald Trump's rambling, whiny, narcissistic press conference last week was disturbing in several ways, but there was at least one encouraging sign: The president showed he is capable of taking correction-something that was very much in doubt given the long list of fantasies he has repeatedly peddled as truth. During his introductory remarks, appropos of nothing but his constant need to stroke his own ego, Trump called his election victory "the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan."