Politics

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a security briefing on August 10, 2017, at his Bedminster National Golf Club in New Jersey. What presidents normally do is work with their team to develop a policy that reflects the United States’ allies, military generals and …

Michael A. Schwarz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass in front of CNN signage displayed at the network’s headquarters building in Atlanta. Commentator Jeffrey Lord, one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders on cable news, was dumped by CNN Thursday after he tweeted a Nazi salute to a liberal media …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Neil Chatterjee, nominee to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The White House said on Thursday that President Donald Trump had appointed Neil Chatterjee as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Last week the Senate confirmed Chatterjee and …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump (R) speaks about North Korea as he sits beside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price (L) during an opioid-related briefing at Trump’s golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 8, 2017. President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” ultimatum …

Carlo Allegri | Reuters Paul Manafort of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s staff listens during a round table discussion on security at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., August 17, 2016. The FBI raided former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s home last month amid the probe …

North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”. A spokesman for the Korean …

Mike Theiler | AFP | Getty Images Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, on February 23, 2017. Count Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker out as a presidential candidate in 2020. The Republican told CNBC on Tuesday he is “not running for …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks during a White House press briefing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Two significant Trump administration economic policy debates — one on the federal debt ceiling, the other …

Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday evening called the “leak” of his financial disclosure form a “felony,” saying that he would be contacting the FBI and Justice Department about the matter. The disclosure, however, is a public document, multiple commentators pointed out. Late on Wednesday, Politico reported …

Newly appointed Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday he has a “very, very good idea” who the senior leakers are in the White House. Calling in to CNN on Thursday morning, Scaramucci also said if White House chief of staff Reince Priebus “wants to explain that he’s not a …