After 2 Weeks, Trump's Bungles Have Aides Rethinking Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day's narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.  —  Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.

Executive Power Run Amok  —  Berkeley, Calif. — Faced with President Trump's executive orders suspending immigration from several Muslim nations and ordering the building of a border wall, and his threats to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even Alexander Hamilton …

Trump sets Democratic field ablaze with anger  —  The Democratic base is so roiled and enraged after only two weeks of Donald Trump's presidency that a take-no-prisoners posture toward the White House is emerging as the price of entry for the 2020 primary.  —  An election that could have focused …

Justice Department demolishes case against Trump order  —  James Robart, the U.S. district judge in Washington State, offered little explanation for his decision to stop President Trump's executive order temporarily suspending non-American entry from seven terror-plagued countries.

Does Trump Actually Want to Succeed?  —  HOUSTON—Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: James A. Baker III was the gold standard when it came to running a White House.  And so far he's not overly impressed when it comes to the troubled kickoff of the Trump administration.

Trump 101: he is definitely not a health nut  —  Aides who travelled with Donald Trump during the campaign marveled at the lax health habits of a 70 year-old obsessed with appearance.  Here was a man fixated on his personal brand and look like nobody they'd ever seen.

Few Recall Gorsuch's Volunteer Work at Harvard  —  Questions arise over Trump Supreme Court pick's level of participation in programs to help less fortunate while in law school  —  When President Donald Trump introduced his Supreme Court pick on live television last week, he said Neil Gorsuch had …

Abdul-Jabbar, Chelsea Handler bring star power to Democratic retreat  —  NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and comedian Chelsea Handler will headline House Democrats' retreat this week as lawmakers head to Baltimore to regroup after months of intra-party turmoil.

Bracing for Trump's Revenge  —  Donald Trump has never made a secret of his penchant for personal vengeance.  He boasts about it, tweets about it, tells long, rambling stories about it on the transcontinental speaking circuit.  When, last year, he was asked to identify a favorite Bible passage, he cited “an eye for an eye.”

Apple to Zynga File Legal Brief Against Trump Immigration Order  —  Ninety-seven companies, from Apple Inc. to Zynga Inc., filed an impassioned legal brief condemning President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry's growing opposition to the policy.

Trump Protesters Borrow From Tea Party to Put Pressure on Lawmakers  —  Opponents on the left are making plans to show up in force when members of Congress hold town forums during this month's recess.  —  MORRISTOWN, N.J. — For weeks, a swelling group has been showing up every Friday …

Trump: Leaked transcripts of Mexico, Australia calls ‘disgraceful’  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Trump on Saturday denounced the leaks of transcripts of his telephone conversations with leaders of Australia and Mexico as “disgraceful” and said his administration was searching “very, very hard” for the leakers.

Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon  —  How Julia Hahn got from the University of Chicago to Breitbart to the White House.  —  There's an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.  Whether they wield real power is a different question.

The Massacre That Wasn't, and a Turning Point for ‘Fake News’  —  There were so many instant internet spoofs making fun of Kellyanne Conway's now-famous “Bowling Green Massacre” that it's hard to pick a favorite.  Gun to my head, I'd say mine was the Twitter meme that showed a brass plaque dedicated …