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2017 was a year of chaos, division and disruption in national politics

President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. So did chaos, division and disruption, and a sense that the guardrails that usually had kept the capital and American politics on a normal path had collapsed under the weight of it all.

2017: The year in review

WHAT A SIGHT! Piper Truza watches a phase of a partial solar eclipse visible in Detroit on Aug. 21. Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses as the moon blotted out the sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago on Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address.

Democrats are deluded about tax cuts’ effect on 2018 elections

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hold a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 20. If Democrats do well in the 2018 midterm elections, it won't be because of the Trump tax cuts. Democrats' hyperbole notwithstanding, voters are not going to vote against Republicans for putting more money in their pockets.

Has Trump’s approval rating caught up to Obama’s?

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his approval ratings at this point in his presidency rival those of Barack Obama, citing a report from "Fox & Friends." "While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47 percent...and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!" he tweeted.

17 in ’17: The most controversial staff departures from Trump’s White House

Almost from the first day, President Donald Trump's top aides began to depart - many of them not by choice. Trump announced on Twitter that he had ousted Reince Priebus while the two men were sitting aboard Air Force One on the tarmac, leaving the chief of staff to step off the plane alone.

USS John McCain crew rated it ‘below average’ before deadly collision

Crewmembers serving aboard the USS John S. McCain were overworked, unprepared and unhappy in the year leading up to its collision with a merchant vessel in the Pacific that killed 10 Navy sailors, according to a report obtained by UPI. In a 163-page report detailing the results of a mandatory climate survey aboard the Navy destroyer, its 142 crew members rated 17 of 18 major categories "below service average."

‘Breakfast Club’ Never-Before-Seen Footage To Be Included In Re-Release Of Movie

Fans of the popular 1985 teen film "The Breakfast Club" can look forward to a treat in 2018 when the film is re-released on DVD and Blu-ray with 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage. According to CNN Friday , part of the new footage of the 80s John Hughes classic features a previously-deleted scene that includes Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald's characters having a conversation in the girls bathroom.

‘Dr. Phil’ Show Denies That Staff Gave Addicted Guests Booze, Drugs Ahead Of Show

The "Dr. Phil" show denied claims made in an expose that the staff gave addicted guests drugs and booze before tapings of the show. "The STAT article does not fairly or accurately describe the methods of 'Dr. Phil,' the TV show, or its mission to educate millions of viewers about drug and alcohol addiction," a rep for the "Dr. Phil" show told Fox News in a statement Friday.

The Latest: Election officials to pick House winner Jan. 4

The Latest on a hotly contested race that could determine the balance of power in Virginia House of Delegates : Virginia elections officials have set next Thursday as the day they will pick the winner in a bitterly contested race that could decide the balance of power in the Virginia House of Delegates. The board announced Friday that it will meet that day to randomly draw the name of the winner in the Newport News-based 94th District, barring any intervention from a recount court.

Unsealed Court Docs Show How Prosecutors Tried To Rig Bundy Trial

Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports. The Bundys' case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys' case.

Trump says Russia inquiry makes U.S. a look very bada

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he believes Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, will treat him fairly, contradicting some members of his party who have waged a weekslong campaign to try to discredit Mueller and the continuing inquiry. During an impromptu 30-minute interview with The New York Times at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the president did not demand an end to the Russia investigations swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times that there has been “no collusion” discovered by the inquiry.