Friend Says Trump Is Considering Firing Mueller as Special Counsel A longtime friend of President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Trump was considering whether to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the president’s campaign and Russian officials. The startling assertion comes as some […]
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Melania Trump Leaves New York Behind for the White House Melania Trump will attend a congressional picnic in the final days of June. She will start filling out her roster of aides. She will get her son settled into his new home and, then, in the fall, a new school. […]
White House Official's Political Tweet Was Illegal, Agency Says Dan Scavino Jr., the White House director of social media, violated a federal law that prohibits political activity by government employees, the federal agency empowered to enforce the law has concluded, citing the tweet Mr. Scavino sent in April calling for […]
Justice Dept. Wants Lawsuit Against President Trump Thrown Out The Justice Department asked a federal court late on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that accused President Trump of violating the Constitution by continuing to own and profit from his businesses, arguing in part that, even if he had broken the […]
Comey Says Trump Pressured Him to Lift the Cloud of Inquiry From his first days in office, President Trump repeatedly put pressure on his F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. He demanded loyalty. He asked that an investigation into an adviser be dropped. And he implored Mr. Comey to publicly clear his […]
Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, […]
Trump Administration Returns Copies of Report on C.I.A. Torture to Congress Senators, spies and a president spent years in a pitched battle over how the history is told of one of the most controversial chapters of America’s campaign against terrorism, the detention and interrogation of prisoners in secret C.I.A. jails. […]
White House Waivers May Have Violated Ethics Rules The Trump administration may have skirted federal ethics rules by retroactively granting a blanket exemption that allows Stephen K. Bannon, the senior White House strategist, to communicate with editors at Breitbart News, where he was recently an executive. The exemption, made public […]
Does Donald Trump Still Think Climate Change Is a Hoax? No One Can Say Does Donald Trump Still Think Climate Change Is a Hoax:- As a businessman, President Trump was a frequent and scornful critic of the concept of climate change. In the years before running for president, he called […]
As Trump Weighs Shake-Up, He Faces Recruiting Challenge Back from overseas and confronting an unforgiving political environment, President Trump appears increasingly isolated inside the White House, according to advisers, venting frustration over the performance of his staff and openly talking about shaking it up. But as he considers casting off […]
