President Trump emerging from seclusion to promote infrastructure plan

Attempting a policy reset, President Donald Trump will push for upgrades to the nation's aging roads and bridges Thursday in his first public appearance since an adult-film actress claimed on national TV that they had sex months after his wife gave birth to his fifth child. Trump is visiting Richfield, Ohio, to sell the public on his plan to use $200 billion in federal money to spur at least $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to repair or replace highways, bridges, ports, airports and other infrastructure.

Trump emerging from seclusion to promote infrastructure plan

Attempting a policy reset, President Donald Trump will push for upgrades to the nation's aging roads and bridges Thursday in his first public appearance since an adult-film actress claimed on national TV that they had sex months after his wife gave birth to his fifth child. Trump is visiting Richfield, Ohio, to sell Americans on his plan to use $200 billion in federal money to spur at least $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to repair or replace highways, bridges, ports, airports and other infrastructure.

Former Trump administration officials, from Comey to Shulkin

From Sean Spicer to Rex Tillerson, a look at who was fired or resigned from serving in President Donald Trump's administration. A growing number of people have left the Trump administration in just over a year - a group that includes FBI director James Comey, chief strategist Steve Bannon and now Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin .

The Trump-Daniels Timeline

There was a brief affair between porn star Stormy Daniels and real estate moghul Donald Trump in 2006, beginning with a golf course encounter. She talked about it to In Touch magazine in 2011, but the interview was never published, allegedly due to Trump team legal threats.

Trump supporters learning they’re being played for suckers

President Donald Trump's most urgent political problem doesn't involve Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin or the hundreds of thousands of voters who marched for gun control. Rather, it's that his diehard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers.

EU discusses new Iran sanctions in move to buttress nuclear deal

European Union ambassadors discussed on Wednesday possible new sanctions on Iran, diplomats said, under plans aimed at persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve an international nuclear deal with Tehran. The EU could decide to impose the extra measures under discussion in Brussels at a foreign ministers' meeting next month, four diplomats told Reuters.

Trump’s talk of a Syria pullout nothing new

President Donald Trump's unscripted remark this week about pulling out of Syria "very soon," while at odds with his own policy, was not a one-off: For weeks, top advisers have been fretting about an overly hasty withdrawal as the president has increasingly told them privately he wants out, U.S. officials said. Only two months ago, Trump's aides thought they'd persuaded him that the U.S. needed to keep its presence in Syria open-ended - not only because the Islamic State group has yet to be entirely defeated, but also because the resulting power vacuum could be filled by other extremist groups or by Iran.

Six conservative Americans debate whether Trump is a role model

Roughly 22 million Americans turned on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels say that she once spanked President Donald Trump with a magazine that had his face on the cover and then had unprotected sex with him. For many, the interview was the latest in a series of uncomfortable moments brought to their living rooms by a nontraditional president who has long graced the pages of tabloids, much to his delight, and broken every rule of political etiquette.

Despite Speculation, MSNBC Bemoans Trump’s VA Change as ‘Distraction’ from Porn, Russia

On Wednesday night's MTP Daily , part-time host Katy Tur and her panel were largely beside themselves over President Trump's latest "distraction" from the scandals like porn star Stormy Daniels and Russia by announcing on Twitter that White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson would replace David Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This complaint came despite weeks of speculation about a change at the VA as part of a larger cabinet shakeup.

The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker

The president ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and replaced him with Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who declared Trump to be in "excellent" health in January. Michael Snyder / AP / Mario Anzuoni / Markku Ulander / Joshua Roberts / Tim Chong / Jim Urquhart / Jorge Dan Lopez / Mike Segar / Carlo Allegri / Reuters / The Atlantic In a tweet Wednesday evening, the president announced he was replacing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who in January declared Trump to be in "excellent" health.

The announcement ends weeks of speculation and uncertainty about Shulkin’s fate.

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is being replaced, President Trump tweeted Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation and uncertainty about his fate. Trump said he is nominating Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, official physician for the president and his predecessor Barack Obama, to be the next VA secretary.

Trump axes N.J. doctor as Veterans Affairs secretary

President Donald Trump on Wednesday replaced Dr. David Shulkin, the former Morristown Medical Center president, as secretary of veterans affairs. The action capped weeks of rumors about Shulkin's future in the Trump administration, especially after the agency's inspector general questioned a $122,334 taxpayer-financed trip to Europe last July.

Emails: Conservatives slammed Pence in 2015 for changing law

Then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence faced a firestorm of criticism three years ago after signing a "religious freedom" law critics decried as anti-gay. Now emails released this week to The Associated Press illustrate similar backlash from fellow conservatives when the eventual vice president agreed to change the law in the face of widespread boycott threats.

Can this Colorado Republican in a diverse district survive despite Trump’s racial politics?

When Mike Coffman was growing up in Aurora, it was a small white military town on the outskirts of Denver. In the half a century since then, wave after wave of immigrants and refugees have transformed it into a vibrant, racially mixed suburb.

As Stormy Daniels tells her story, six conservative Americans debate whether Trump is a role model

Roughly 22 million Americans turned on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels say that she once spanked President Donald Trump with a magazine that had his face on the cover and then had unprotected sex with him. For many, the interview was the latest in a series of uncomfortable moments brought to their living rooms by a nontraditional president who has long graced the pages of tabloids, much to his delight, and broken every rule of political etiquette.

Veterans groups sound the alarm on Trump’s plan to replace VA Secretary

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin appears to be on thin ice with the White House, but Shulkin has maintained a critical bloc of support in the nation's veterans groups, who have come out vocally calling on President Donald Trump to keep him at the helm of the agency. John Rowan, the head of the Vietnam Veterans of America, defended Shulkin on Tuesday, saying that Shulkin has stayed true to the agency's mission of serving America's veterans -- and that he wants to see Shulkin finish what he started.