The first days inside Trump's White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot  —  President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build.  —  Trump turned on the television …

Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession …

Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts  —  The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten …

Senate Democrats set to unveil a Trump-size infrastructure plan  —  A group of senior Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to unveil their own $1 trillion plan to revamp the nation's airports, bridges, roads and seaports, urging President Trump to back their proposal, which they say would create 15 million jobs over 10 years.

Oh, Saturday Night Live, Honey, No  —  Oh jeez, Saturday Night Live.  You didn't have to do this.  Really, you didn't.  You got away with the Hillary-Clinton-singing-"Hallelujah" thing, but that was a uniquely terrible week (and long before it was apparent that Hillary Clinton had, in fact, given up).

Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant, may cost $70,000 in damages  —  The limousine that was set on fire during the anti-Trump anarchist protest in downtown Washington on Inauguration Day is owned by a Muslim immigrant who says the damage could cost his company $70,000.

Special Observances: National Day of Patriotic Devotion (Proc.  9570)  —  An unpublished Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/24/2017  —  This document is unpublished.  It is scheduled to be published on 01/24/2017.  —  Once it is published it will be available on this page in an official form.

This is how Donald Trump engineers applause  —  When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically.  Now, according to CBS News, intelligence sources are pushing back:

Trump's Pick for Health Secretary Faces New Senate Hearing  —  A second Senate committee is ready to interrogate President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, a nominee who's backed by Republicans but under fire from Democrats for his support for tearing down President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his past stock trades.

Dayton's message cut short by collapse during State of State address  —  Before fainting briefly and recovering, governor laid out new spending goals.  —  Video (01:26) : Gov. Mark Dayton collapsed while delivering his State of the State speech on Monday, striking his head on a lectern.

Trump's latest hire alarms allies of Ryan — and bolsters Bannon  —  When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's red-brick Georgian revival in Janesville, Wis., was surrounded last July by women whose children were murdered by undocumented immigrants, conservative writer Julia Hahn published a scathing report …

How Trump Could Shrink the Government (While Still Keeping the Good Stuff)  —  Donald Trump's political brand is about fighting and winning, and he has promised to fight and win a war on big government.  As a candidate, he often attacked the federal bureaucracy as a bloated monstrosity teeming with …

Why Trump's Staff Is Lying  —  One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying.  The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Trump pulled in the largest inauguration crowds in American history.

DNC Chair Candidates Bash White People in Racially-Charged Forum  —  ‘My job is to shut other white people down’  —  Candidates aspiring to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee met Monday night to discuss what went wrong in 2016 and how to get the party back on track.

Melania Trump Definitely Loves Her Husband and Is Very Happy to Be Here  —  Remember the inauguration?  That was fun, wasn't it?  We all had a very nice and good time welcoming in our new president, Donald J. Trump.  But of all the many, many happy people in attendance …

The Future of the Left Is Female  —  Women's rights are human rights, and women leaders are progressive leaders.  —  A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America's political history in January of 2017.  But pretty much no one anticipated that they'd be doing it as leaders of the resistance.

Trump moves to put his own stamp on Voice of America  —  President Donald Trump on Monday dispatched two aides to scope out the studios of Voice of America, heightening concerns among some longtime staffers that Trump may quickly put his stamp on the broadcasting arm that has long pushed U.S. democratic ideals across the world.

Of Course The CIA Gave Trump Standing Ovations.  He Never Let Them Sit.  —  President Trump is bragging about his standing ovations, but he never asked CIA employees to take their seats.  —  S.V. Date  —  WASHINGTON - While President Donald Trump brags about how hundreds of CIA employees gave …

Trump 101: What he reads and watches  —  President Trump spends substantial time and energy ridiculing the media.  He spends even more time consuming —and obsessing about — it.  —  Print copies of three newspapers.  When Billy Bush was on, “Access Hollywood” every night.