White House tries to regroup, but Trump isn’t helping

President Donald Trump pauses Monday as the audience stands and applauds as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington to announce plans to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. Dismissing the current system as an anachronism, Trump said the air traffic control operations needed to be separated from the Federal Aviation Administration.

A viral bot gives Trump’s tweets ‘the honor that they deserve’

Monday was another one of those days: a day in which the president of the United States woke up, grabbed his phone, and began to tweet out whatever was on his mind while he, it seems, watched television. "People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!" read one of several Monday morning tweets.

Will the Supreme Court Follow Trump’s Tweets?

An extraordinary stream of tweets Monday morning by President Donald Trump attacked his own Justice Department's revised travel ban as "watered down, politically correct," and pushed for expedited handling of the ban by the U.S. Supreme Court. "The courts are slow and political!" Trump wrote before 7 a.m. Eastern Time, also stating that "In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe."

Alec Baldwin’s Advice to Kathy Griffin on Trump Brouhaha:…

"No 1 believes u meant 2 threaten Trump," tweets Baldwin, who also resurrects his insane Henry Hyde rant from the '90s Alec Baldwin, a survivor of public scorn and a notorious liberal, has shared some encouraging words with embattled comedian Kathy Griffin. Because Alec Baldwin.

Trump criticized for tweet about London Mayor after attack

US President Donald Trump appeared to misconstrue a statement while launching an attack on Twitter of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of the terror attacks which killed at least seven people. Trump, writing on Twitter Sunday, said: "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" But when Khan said in a statement that there was no cause for alarm, he was referring specifically to a visible increase in police activity on the streets of London in the wake of the attack.

Trump attacks advisers over travel ban

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his plan to temporarily ban travelers from six Muslim-majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory. US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has attacked his own administration for trying to push a "watered down, politically correct version" of his stalled travel ban through the courts.

WH doubles down on ‘compassionate’ cut to poverty programs

Concert suicide bomber is named as 'Manchester-born British-Libyan' jihadist Salman Abedi whose 22 victims include girl aged just EIGHT ISIS supporters celebrate terror attack as Twitter REFUSES to explain why tweet 'predicting' Manchester attack was not passed on to police... because of 'PRIVACY concerns' Trump blasts attacker who killed 22 people at a UK Ariana Grande concert as an 'evil loser' whose ideologies must be 'completely obliterated' Two women, 19 and 26, and a man, 30, arrested in Mississippi for a having a threesome on the deck of a family bar 'in front of God and everybody' 'They scared him to death': Boy, 16, killed himself hours after police 'confronted him about audio on his phone of a sexual encounter and warned he could be a sex offender' There are people on food stamps who don't want to work: White House doubles down on 'compassionate' work or starve benefits cut ... (more)

Steven Mnuchin at G7: ‘We don’t want to be protectionist’

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin arrives for the opening session of the G7 of Finance ministers in Bari southern Italy Friday The call was made in a statement issued at end of the two-day summit of G-7 foreign ministers in Bari, Italy today. Asked how pro-active the US delegation had been on the first day of the G7, France's Sapin said they had been "quite discreet in their presence", and he appeared to take a swipe at Trump's frequent use of Twitter .

‘We’re in a full-fledged feeding frenzy’: Trump just had 2…

House Speaker Paul Ryan just successfully pushed the American Health Care Act the chamber. And though the bill still needed to be handled by the Senate, Trump and House Republicans took a victory lap of sorts after the much maligned legislation finally made it through its brutally tough initial battle.

A brief history of Trump’s tweets on the ‘scandal’ of…

President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with the Russian officials during a meeting at the White House last week, prompting condemnation across the political spectrum - including a look at his past public statements on others' disclosure of classified intelligence. Both current and former anonymous US officials claimed that Trump had disclosed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak sensitive intelligence regarding the Islamic State, according to a report from The Washington Post .

WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Reward For Trump-Comey ‘Tapes’

WikiLeaks announced on Friday that its organization is prepared to pay $100,000 to anyone who sends them the alleged taped conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey, according to Newsweek. James Comey was the face of the FBI during its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and alleged coordination with President Trump's campaign.

US mine blast: Ex-coal CEO Blankenship at end of prison term

Former coal executive Don Blankenship jumped back on Twitter on Wednesday, renewing his feud with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on the day Blankenship was to finish a one-year prison sentence arising from the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in decades. Even before the U.S. Bureau of Prisons listed Blankenship as leaving a halfway house in Arizona, the ex-Massey Energy CEO rattled off a series of tweets.

Sanders defends Trump’s praise of Australian healthcare system

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses.