White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer  —  As the press secretary for a president who's obsessed with how things play on cable TV, Sean Spicer's real audience during his daily televised press briefings has always been an audience of one.  —  And the devastating “Saturday Night Live” …

Melania sues Mail Online a third time for claiming she was an escort  —  More On:  —  Melania Trump has filed her third defamation lawsuit against the Mail Online over an August 2016 article that accused her of having once been a prostitute, arguing for the first time that the story ruined her …

Trump's suggestion that the media is ignoring terrorist attacks traces to a familiar source: InfoWars  —  President Trump made a whopper of a claim on Monday, suggesting that the media is deliberately ignoring terrorist attacks.  —  “It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported …

Yemen Raid Had Secret Target: Al Qaeda Leader Qassim Al-Rimi  —  Exclusive: Top al-Qaeda Leader was Target of U.S. Raid in Yemen, Sources Say 2:40  —  The Navy SEAL raid in Yemen last week had a secret objective — the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who survived …

Kanye West — Deletes All Trump Tweets I'm Not with Him Anymore  —  Kanye West has scrubbed his Twitter account of all things Trump, and it's because he's super unhappy with the president's performance over his first 2 weeks in office.  —  Kanye had tweeted about Trump in a positive light after the election.

Labor Nominee Andrew Puzder Has Another Problem: Undocumented Help  —  He did the right thing.  And it could cost him.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Department of Labor, Andrew Puzder, employed …

About 20 Rabbis Arrested During Protest Over Trump Travel Ban  —  About 20 rabbis affiliated with a liberal Jewish group were arrested on Monday night after blocking the street near the Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle in Manhattan to protest an executive order …

Donald Trump will effectively be blocked from addressing Parliament on his state visit to the UK, the Speaker of the House of Commons has said.  —  John Bercow, the Speaker, said he was “strongly opposed” to Mr Trump speaking in the Commons and that being invited was “not an automatic right” but “an earned honour”.

Cotton and Trump plot crackdown on legal immigration  —  Overlooked in Donald Trump's campaign crusade against illegal immigration was his vow to crack down on legal immigration, too.  —  Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a reliable Trump ally, is taking steps to execute that part …

Secret money fueling pro-Betsy DeVos ad campaigns  —  Conservative groups making final push to save Trump's education secretary pick  —  Only 100 U.S. senators — not the general public — will vote to approve President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees.  —  But that's not stopping several …

Mike Pence's Vote on a Cabinet Nominee Would Be Historic  —  WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, call him the tiebreaker.  —  A vice president does not have much on his plate, as far as constitutional responsibilities go.  He presides over the official count of electoral votes once, possibly twice …

Trump's White House tries to rehab its Hill outreach  —  Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump's most prominent aides, trekked to Capitol Hill Monday morning on a diplomatic mission — to reassure the 100 or so Senate GOP communications staffers that Trump has no intention …

Lena Dunham: ‘Soul-crushing pain’ of Trump's election made me lose weight  —  Most people turn to diets and exercise to lose extra pounds, but Girls star Lena Dunham is sharing a new weight-loss trick you may not want to try at home.  —  Dunham stopped by Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show Monday morning …

All eyes on 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in battle over Trump's travel ban  —  Trump slams ‘so-called’ judge who halted ban  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has only been in office for 17 days, but his Justice Department is already embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle over his executive order …

President Trump's Real Fear: The Courts  —  When President Trump doesn't get what he wants, he tends to look for someone to blame — crooked pollsters, fraudulent voters, lying journalists.  Anyone who questions him or his actions becomes his foe.  —  Over the past few days …

Trump Seems to Side With Russia in Comments on Ukraine  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump cast doubt on whether Moscow is backing separatists engaged in the recent escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine, appearing to side with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has long denied involvement …

On Russia, Trump Is a Code Pink Republican  —  After watching his interview on Fox News this weekend, it's worth asking whether President Donald Trump is now the leader of the Code Pink Republicans.  —  This is the term coined by the conservative author and radio host Mark Levin to describe …

On Trump, Keep it Simple (In 5 Points)  —  After a tumultuous and chaotic two weeks of the Trump presidency, we are now seeing a new raft of counter-intuitive articles ranging from ‘Does Trump Even Want to Succeed as President?’ to 'How Trump Has Everyone Just Where He Wants Them and Is Kicking Ass …

Records: Soros Fund Execs Funded Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John McCain, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham in 2016  —  Employees of a hedge fund founded by the king of the Institutional Left, billionaire and Democratic Party mega-donor George Soros, donated tens of thousands of dollars …

Sorry!  American politics will get worse  —  Donald Trump was a symptom, not the cause, of our cancerous politics — and the disease is metastasizing.  —  Signs of it spreading are everywhere.  —  In our politics:  — There is no market for normal politics, much less compromise.

Never Believe the Republicans' B.S. Ever Again  —  Their silence on Trump reveals that their Obama-era sanctimony was fake.  —  It's forgotten history at this point, but the stunningly over-hyped Hillary Clinton email server controversy that ultimately cost her the presidency grew …

No Joke: Al Franken for President?  —  After years of shunning the spotlight in the Senate, Minnesota's junior senator is in the limelight—and would be a formidable candidate for the Democrats.  —  Al Franken isn't a punch line in the Sen­ate any­more.

Signal Mountain Man Planned Small Militia Unit For “High Casualties” Against Perceived U.S. Enemies, According To Trial Testimony  —  A Signal Mountain man planned to lead a small militia unit against groups he considered enemies of the U.S., according to testimony in the opening day of the trial of Robert Doggart in Federal Court.

Judge: No sex on probation  —  TWIN FALLS — After sentencing a 19-year-old Twin Falls man to a year-long therapeutic prison program on a rape charge last week, a judge added an unusual caveat should the teen successfully complete the program and be placed on probation.