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A week after one of his closest aides was forced out of the job of National Security Advisor, President Trump filled that post by selecting Army Lt. General H.R. McMaster, as the choice drew praise from both sides of the political aisle.
As the American presidency takes a series of bizarre and disturbing turns, it would be only natural to look to the West Wing for comfort. The show was a ridiculous fantasia of American politics then, and is doubly so now, but the thinking goes that maybe the writer of such a fantasy might have some solid views about how to get there.
Arturo Gomez participates in a Presidents Day protest near Trump Tower on February 20, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstration was one of many anti-Trump rallies held around the country on the federal holiday billed as Not My Presidents Day.
Sen. John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Neil Gorsuch, his choice for the Supreme Court. A reader does not regard the position as a "stolen seat" even though Republicans denied Merrick Garland, the man nominated by President Obama, from a hearing in the Senate.
He lied to the vice president, and by extension the president and the American people, about a conversation in December with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in which sanctions were discussed in some manner. And this opened him up to Russian blackmail, the Justice Department concluded.
The office of a Missouri congressman says he intends to file a federal lawsuit over the removal of a constituent's painting from its display on Capitol Hill. The painting, which shows a pig in a police uniform, divided members of Congress for its depiction of Ferguson, Missouri, where weeks of protests occurred after the police shooting of an unarmed black man.
The Space Needle towers in the background Feb. 15 beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle. A board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Lester Ross, says China is preparing to retaliate if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump carries out promises to impose sanctions on Chinese goods.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
President Donald Trump escalated his attack on Sweden's migration policies Monday, doubling down on his suggestion - based on a Fox News report - that refugees in the Scandinavian country were behind a surge in crime and terrorism. Trump set off consternation and ridicule Saturday when he seemed to falsely imply to an adoring throng at a rally in Florida that a terrorist attack had occurred in Sweden, which has admitted tens of thousands of refugees in recent years.
President Trump, right, names Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, left, his new national security advisor during a brief appearance at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday.
"If I sit down with the VA [secretary] nominee, I'm going to ask him about technology, personnel and managing the system," Sen. Tim Kaine said. Vietnam veteran Thomas Hundley displays letters he sent to his wife in 1966 from Vietnam He had to prove to the VA that he served in the war.
A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017. A protester holds a placard near the Houses of Parliament in London on Feb. 20, 2017.
Mitchell Schwartz is one of eleven candidates challenging incumbent Eric Garcetti to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. A Democrat who directed Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in California, Schwartz says Mayor Garcetti is ducking the issue of rising crime.
Rep. Paul Ryan's secretive trip to the border, President Donald Trump 's moves on Obamacare and Steve Bannon's media victory - those stories and more fill out this week's Inside Politics forecast. Rep. Paul Ryan is headed to the US-Mexico border this week.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal announced Monday morning that contracts have been requested from vendors to provide every room at VA hospitals in Connecticut with Wi-Fi access, after a News 8 exclusive report in 2016. At a news conference Monday, Blumenthal said that every veteran staying at a VA facility should feel connected to the world around them.
U.S. President Donald Trump should not be afforded the "rare privilege" of a state visit, a British opposition lawmaker said Monday, as Parliament debated a call for Trump's invitation to be downgraded and stripped of its royal seal of approval. The nonbinding debate was called in response to an online petition with more than 1.8 million signatures saying a formal state visit "would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."
After President Donald Trump's raucous first month in office, Europeans have reacted with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a century of trans-Atlantic friendship may be sinking. "Too much as happened," European Union leader Donald Tusk said Monday, "for us to pretend that everything is as it used to be."
An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House. Andrew Jackson's triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton last year, and some of those most eager to point that out are in the Trump White House.