General Election 2017: Is Labour under threat in London? Many may think it's a foregone conclusion but in London this election is very difficult to read. Long-standing Labour dominance in the capital, along with a Remain majority, make it more complicated to assess the impact of Brexit and the concerns […]
Missile Defense 101: N. Korea could hit with little warning The scenario has become pretty familiar by now. Sometime in the early morning, a missile roars off its launcher in North Korea and flies off — to a splash zone somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what if Pyongyang wasn’t […]
Erdogan's big meeting with Trump gets obscured by White House chaos During two separate photo ops at the White House on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waited silently while reporters barraged President Trump with questions about his sharing of top-secret intelligence with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador in Washington […]
Michael Moore preps surprise documentary for Donald Trump Michael Moore is making a documentary about Republican President Donald Trump and says the president should be worried. Producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein announced Tuesday that they have secured worldwide rights to the film, which Moore had dubbed “Fahrenheit 11/9.” The name […]
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With State Secrets? On Monday, Americans learned that President Trump shared with the Russians highly classified intelligence about the United States fight against the Islamic State. Mr. Trump jocularly passed secrets obtained by Israel to Kremlin representatives in a White House meeting last week, blithely […]
Trump welcomes Erdogan amid US-Turkey strains President Donald Trump, in hosting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House Tuesday, extended his latest warm welcome to an authoritarian-style leader who had a strained relationship with the previous US administration. We've had a great relationship and we will make it […]
The James Comey memo is an existential threat to Donald Trump's presidency The reporting coming out of The New York Times and CNN is explosive: Deposed FBI Director James Comey wrote a memo following a February 14 meeting with Donald Trump in which he says the President told him "I […]
Trump asked Comey to end Flynn investigation President Donald Trump asked James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a request documented in a memo written by the former FBI director, according to sources familiar with the matter. "I hope you can let this go," […]
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump’s battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed shock. The disclosure that Mr. Trump divulged classified intelligence to Russian officials that […]
Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly […]
