Trump to announce ‘path forward’ for US in Afghanistan

President Donald Trump will outline the United States' "path forward" in Afghanistan in a speech Monday night, the White House announced Sunday. Trump's address, scheduled for 9 p.m. ET Monday at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, comes as Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis have said a decision has been made on a new US strategy in Afghanistan.

As the GOP voices outrage at Trump’s response to…

Ever since President Donald Trump issued an equivocating response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, over a dozen of the country's most prominent Republicans have denounced the president's remarks. "[The president] has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great," Sen. Bob Corker, an influential Tennessee Republican, said Thursday, warning that without "radical changes" in the White House, the nation could end up in "great peril."

Gore: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Almost ten years ago, not long after Al Gore's first entry into the slasher/horror film genre , I had occasion to ask a straight-shooting "mainstream" climate scientist I know slightly what he thought of Gore's film. I was fishing to see whether he'd comment on some of the more obvious howlers that Gore included in the film, but instead after a long pause he said, "I wish he'd made the film with John McCain."

Alison Rowat: Time running out for Trump to say which side he is on

WHAT a difference location can make. Having at first blamed "many sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump appeared in the White House's Diplomatic Room on Monday to denounce racism as "evil" and describe the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as "criminals and thugs".

New York Times Editor Testifies in Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit

The editor of the New York Times editorial board on Wednesday took the witness stand in a lawsuit filed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who claims that a June editorial in the paper defamed her by linking her to a 2011 mass shooting. James Bennet testified at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in a Manhattan federal court that he meant to link Palin to an "overall climate" of incitement to political violence, but not to say she caused the shooting.

The Senate subway: The new epicenter of American democracy?

It's a slightly-comical transportation system in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol that few Americans know exist: the Senate subway system. Not subway like Metro - but two sets of tracks that carry underground trams ferrying lawmakers from Senate chambers to their office buildings, less than a third of a mile away.

McCain releases strategy for Afghanistan, preempting and rebuking Trump

Sen. John McCain on Thursday unveiled a plan to increase U.S. air and ground forces in Afghanistan that would probably bring some American soldiers closer into harm's way - a move that in effect rebukes President Trump, who has not yet decided on his preferred way forward in the war. McCain,R-Ariz., promised to present his plan as an amendment to the annual defense authorization billupon his return to Washington in September.

Trump looms over primaries for Flake, Heller

Speculation is growing that President Trump will buck his own party and back primary challengers to two incumbent GOP senators seeking reelection in 2018, an exceedingly rare event that would deepen divisions within a party that is already struggling to govern despite controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress.

McCain: Trump failing on Afghanistan

REPUBLICAN Senator John McCain has launched his own Afghanistan strategy, saying Donald Trump has done nothing for the troops and that they 'deserve better'. Senator McCain declared that "America is adrift in Afghanistan" as he unveiled a war strategy of his own that includes more US combat forces and greater counter-terrorism efforts.

Giant inflatable chicken resembling Trump draws crowd near White House

Exchanges between the senior White House adviser and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times and Jim Acosta of CNN became combative at a news briefing on Wednesday. Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell officially announced that she will run against Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Miami, who represents a swing district on Wednesday August 1, 2017.

US Air Force test flights focus on off-the-shelf options

Over a U.S. Air Force base in the New Mexico desert, pilots on Wednesday tested some off-the-shelf options as the military looks for its next light-attack aircraft. Test flights for the experiment known as the OA-X initiative are being conducted at Holloman Air Force Base.