The Latest: Dem calls report on Trump, intel ‘disturbing’

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the report that President Donald Trump shared classified information with Russian officials : The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee says a report that President Donald Trump shared intelligence about the Islamic State group with Russian officials is "deeply disturbing." Rep. Adam Schiff of California said in a statement Monday that "this disclosure could jeopardize sources of very sensitive intelligence and relationships we have with key partners."

White House Staff – Hiding’ As Russia Chaos Engulfs West Wing

"Do not ask me about how this looks, we all know how this looks," said one senior aide, after reports that Trump gave highly classified information to Russian officials. White House and administration officials are reeling at reports that President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russia's top diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week.

In-Depth: Bill O’Reilly speaks out

During an interview Friday with Glenn Beck, another former Fox News Channel personality who was the subject of an advertiser boycott, Bill O'Reilly complained of a liberal "hit job" that did him in. "In the weeks to come we're going to be able to explain all of it," O'Reilly said in his first interview since he was fired on April 19. "It has to do with destroying voices that the far left and the organized left-wing cabal doesn't like."

Congressional Officials: Comey Sought More Resources for Russia Probe Before Firing

U.S. congressional officials say ousted FBI Director James Comey had in the days before his firing asked for more resources for his investigation into Russia's involvement in last year's U.S. election and possible links between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign. The officials said the request was made to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who along with Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlined in memos Tuesday the administration's reasons for ousting Comey.

Outside money floods House special elections in Georgia and Montana

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections. Outside money floods House special elections in Georgia and Montana The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections.

After Yates, more questions for the Trump White House

Sally Yates didn't bring a smoking gun to the latest episode of the long-running political melodrama entwining the White House and Russia. But in a Senate hearing on Monday, the former acting attorney general produced just enough fresh intrigue to offer Democrats a new opening in the war of attrition they are waging against Donald Trump's presidency.

Peter Lucas: Famous Watergate watchdogs still lapping it up

If famous Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein had reported on Democrat Barack Obama the way they did on Republican Richard Nixon, Obama could have ended up the same way. Instead Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate coverup story in 1972 that forced Nixon's resignation two years later, looked the other way during the eight years of scandals that enveloped the Obama administration.

Obamaa s $400K Speech Renews Jason Chaffetza s Passion for Presidential …

Last October House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz was so excited about continuing to investigate Hillary Clinton in her new role as president that he couldn't help but gush to the Washington Post . "It's a target-rich environment," Chaffetz said.

Hillary Clinton blames misogyny, FBI, Russia, herself for 2016 presidential election loss

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The N.E.A. Really Isn’t “Welfare for Rich, Liberal Elites”

Last autumn, I had a mischievous fantasy that I would fudge my address as Bartley, Nebraska, or Piedmont, South Dakota, on some grant applications in the hope of boosting my odds for success. If every other writer applying to the Guggenheim or the National Endowment for the Arts lives in Brooklyn, or Silver Lake, wouldn't a rural Zip Code give my application a glimmer of geographic diversity? I offer this small confession because many writers, painters, musicians, and art teachers, suffering the proverbial Stockholm syndrome, have internalized the Republican dogma that established artists in coastal cities are hoarding public and private art funds, in a self-serving parochial loop.

The Art and Activism of Grace Paley

There's a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century. Just glance at the "chronology" section of "A Grace Paley Reader" , a welcome new collection of her short stories, nonfiction, and poems, edited by Kevin Bowen and Paley's daughter, Nora.

NYC mayor announces plan for free preschool for 3-year-olds

In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education.

Reince Priebus says Trump wants power to sue news outlets

Reince Priebus insists Trump still wants the power to sue news outlets -and says changing libel laws 'is something that we've looked at' White House chief of staff says a looser libel lawsuit standard is something that has been discussed inside the administration Trump first raised the idea of taking the NY Times and The Washington Post to court in a February 2016 campaign rally, pledging to 'sue them and win money' The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a free press, and a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling sets a very high bar for proving news libel At Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner, comic Hasan Minhaj said Trump had boycotted the event because he 'doesn't care about free speech' White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said on Sunday that loosening America's libel laws to allow the president to sue news outlets over unflattering coverage 'is something that ... (more)

Ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO gets prison time for kickbacks

In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd- Bennett speaks before leaving federal court in Chicago, after she pleaded guilty to helping steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes while working for CPS. A federal judge in Chicago is scheduled to sentence Byrd-Bennett Friday, April 28, 2017.

Stephen Colbert and ‘Stephen Colbert’ bid farewell to Bill O’Reilly

The removal of conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly from his top-rated Fox News show over allegations of sexual harassment "is an important next step to clean up Fox News and make it a respectful and professional work environment", says the attorney representing Gretchen Carlson in her harassment case against Roger Ailes-the network's founding President who left the company a year ago in a scenario that mirrors O'Reilly's departure. Fox News Channel announced Wednesday O'Reilly has immediately departed the network.

Nevada Democrats Want Say in Congress Hearing on Nuke Dump

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Republicans eye new Obamacare repeal attempt as early as Wednesday, report says

The White House is eyeing Wednesday as a target date for a vote on an Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, according to a report, but a Republican aide on Capitol Hill said there is no text of a bill yet. The Washington Post's Robert Costa tweeted that a top White House official said aides to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will circulate revised language on a health-care bill Thursday evening.