Only President Trump knows what was going through his mind - and his smartphone - when he tapped out a confusing statement containing the non-word "covfefe" just after midnight. But that didn't stop members of Congress from opining on the definition of the most popular nonsense word of Trump's presidency.

Following a series of North Korean missile tests, the latest of which occurred on Sunday, the U.S. military has conducted a missile defense test aimed to protect the nation from a targeted attack. The test, which took place Tuesday at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, was deemed successful by U.S. officials after an upgraded long-range interceptor missile directly collided with its target-a mock intercontinental ballistic missile .

The U.S. Supreme Court will review Ohio's contested purge of its voter rolls next term, adding a potentially major case on voting rights to its docket for the first time since Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the high court. The justices agreed to hear the case, Husted v.

French President Emmanuel Macron did not mince words during his joint news conference Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which he labeled Russian state media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik "agents of influence and propaganda." "I have always had an exemplary relationship with foreign journalists, but they have to be journalists," Macron said Monday at the Palace of Versailles, adding that "Russia Today and Sputnik were agents of influence and propaganda that spread falsehoods about me and my campaign."

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI's photo ID laws."

"Political life and discourse in the United States is at a boiling point," Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger wrote after she and political scientist Charles Murray were assaulted, and she injured, by protesters violently opposed to granting Murray any forum to discuss his research and opinions. Stanger largely laid the blame for escalating tensions at the feet of President Trump and his confrontational manner.

It was billed as unprecedented, a religion-themed tour to "broadcast a message of unity" to followers of the Abrahamic faiths by visiting, in the words of national security adviser General H.R. McMaster, "the homelands and holy sites of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslims faiths all on one trip." From Bethlehem to the Vatican, Riyadh to Jerusalem, Trump's first trip abroad as US President featured a chain of photo-ops to reinforce this "message of unity" theme.

Hundreds of protesters opposing Texas's tough new anti-"sanctuary cities" law launched a raucous demonstration from the public gallery in the Texas House on Monday, briefly halting work and prompting lawmakers on the floor below to argue - and even threaten gun violence - as tense divides over immigration policies boiled over. Activists wearing red T-shirts reading "Lucha," or "Fight," quietly filled hundreds of gallery seats as proceedings began.

President Trump consumes classified intelligence like he does most everything else in life: ravenously and impatiently, eager to ingest glinting nuggets but often indifferent to subtleties. Most mornings, often at 10:30, sometimes earlier, Trump sits behind the historic Resolute desk and, with a fresh Diet Coke fizzing and papers piled high, receives top-secret updates on the world's hot spots.

In this file photo from February 2016, State Senators Dan Soucek and Brent Jackson review historical maps in the Legislative Office Building at the N.C. General Assembly, in Raleigh. North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature has worked steadily and forcefully during the past seven years to tilt the state's election system in its favor, using voting restrictions, favorable district maps and a slew of new policies that lawmakers say are aimed at reducing voter fraud.

Bernhard Langer shot a 4-under-par 68 on Sunday to beat Vijay Singh by one stroke at the Senior PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Course. Bernhard Langer is far from the longest hitter on the PGA Tour Champions, relying instead on precision and putting to forge a decorated career on the 50-and-over circuit.

Scott Dixon and Jay Howard avoided injury in a spectacular crash - or what Dixon labeled "a wild ride" afterward - during the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. The crash occurred on lap 53 when Howard's car bounced off the outside wall, apparently crushing his right front suspension.

Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour It's been an incredible success We weren't quite sure, we had a few doubts Will Evita win through? But the answer is yes There you are, I told you so Makes no difference where she goes The whole world over just the same Just listen to them call her name And who would underestimate the actress now? Like Donald Trump, Juan and Eva PerA3n were populists. They seem to have shared Trump's understanding of the purposes of philanthropy and the importance of fiscal probity.

MIAMISBURG, Ohio-A humanoid robot greets visitors to the Dayton-area offices of Yaskawa Motoman, a Japanese company that produces the machines being installed at thousands of factories around the globe. Its right arm is holding a screen, which playfully challenges visitors to compete with the robot in a manual task: tracing the word YASKAWA as quickly as possible.

Some years ago, when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona, I answered a knock on the door of my house to find my buddy Bryan and a fellow I'm almost willing to swear was the backwoods character Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles . It seemed they'd been cut off by a wildfire from their unauthorized long-term camp at the head of Sycamore Canyon.

President Trump's "travel ban"-the two successive executive orders barring entry of persons from selected Muslim-majority countries-is headed for The Show.

Founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman, who with his Hammond B-3 organ, and soft but growling voice helped create a sound that was simultaneously jazz, rock, blues, and parts San Francisco jam band, and that became the defining tone of Southern Rock music, died on Saturday. He was 69. His death was announced on his website, and gave no official cause.

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