It’s What Bob Corker Does Next That Counts

Senator Bob Corker, a Republican of Tennessee, deserves credit for saying in public this evening to The New York Times what most prominent Republicans have known and many have said over the past two years. Namely: that Donald Trump is irrational, ill-informed, impulsive, unfit for command, and increasingly a danger to the country and the world.

Ivanka Trump’s brand ramped up work in China just prior to dad’s nomination

Ivanka Trump 's brand intensified its work in China as her father closed in on the Republican nomination for U.S. president, with her company applying for nearly twice as many trademarks in a five-month span as it had in the preceding eight years. Ivanka Trump Marks LLC applied for 36 trademarks in China between March and July of last year.

White House cautions Israel on expanding settlements in West Bank

Israeli police evict settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ofra on Thursday following the evacuation of Amona outpost. Amona is the largest of about 100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without formal permission but with tacit Israeli government support.

COLUMN: Centrism is the only path to bipartisanship

Each one of them, from former President George Washington to former President Barack Obama, has found a different way of filling the chair. President Donald Trump's relatively new presidential habits - underhandedly banning religions from entering the country and hanging up on foreign leaders in moments of dissatisfaction - could be considered simply unorthodox if they weren't so blatantly, perhaps irreversibly, destructive.

‘A nightmare for the world’

WHEN news broke of a rift within the Trump/Turnbull alliance on Thursday, centred around a terse phone call across the Pacific, attention rightly turned to the leaders. On Manus Island and in Nauru, the men, women and children from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Iraq are in limbo; caught in the middle of a diplomatic to-and-fro over where they start their new lives.

Clip of Trump’s granddaughter singing spreads on Chinese web

A brief video clip of Donald Trump's granddaughter singing in Chinese is circulating to strong approval on the internet in China, even while some criticized the U.S. president's failure to send greetings for the Lunar New Year. The clip posted by Trump's daughter Ivanka shows 5-year-old Arabella Kushner singing best wishes for the holiday while playing with a traditional Chinese puppet.

This Day in Trump, Day 14: Troubles down under

On Thursday, President Donald Trump and his administration - and various members of Congress - dealt with fallout after a standard congratulatory call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday went south. Trump also attended the National Prayer Breakfast, where he pledged to "totally destroy" an IRS rule that prevents churches from engaging in explicitly political activity.

Trump: “I Haven t EasedAnything On Russia”

The White House has backtracked on a report it is rolling back sanctions on RussiaA s Federal Security Service, the successor agency to the KGB, after the Treasury Department announced an amendment to put measures in place by former President Obama in response to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The FSB was one of several entities sanctioned by Obama in December related to Russian hacking of Democratic political organizations and operatives.

Senate GOP campaign arm backs Gorsuch with ad buy

Republicans' Senate campaign arm is looking to put pressure on vulnerable Democrats over the impending battle over President Trump's Supreme Court nomination. The National Republican Senatorial Committee will start its first paid ad push of the 2018 cycle with a new ad based in Washington, D.C. It'll air starting Friday through the next week on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," a sample of the ads that could await embattled Democrats in their home states if they block the nomination.

House rolls back rule restricting gun sales to severely mentally ill

The Republican-led House voted Thursday to repeal an Obama-era Social Security Administration regulation to keep people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns. "The Social Security Administration not only overstepped its mission with this regulation, it discriminated against certain Americans with disabilities who receive Social Security benefits.

The Latest: California at heaviest snowpack in 22 years

Authorities say inmates used "sharp objects" to take over a Delaware prison and hold three prison guards and a counselor hostage A former death row inmate at the Delaware prison where inmates took employees hostage says the prisoners were protesting what he called "inhumane" conditions at the facility Roaring storms that brought California almost a year's worth of snow and rain in a single month should make state water manager's Sierra snowpack survey Thursday a celebration, marking this winter's dramatic... California water managers say Sierra Nevada snow drifts are at a drought-busting 173 percent of average, with the most snow recorded since 1995 A group of Yemeni business owners plan to shut down their delis, grocery stores and bodegas around New York City in protest of President Donald Trump's travel ban on people hailing from seven Muslim-majority... Many Yemeni business owners ... (more)