White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump  —  The White House abruptly dismissed a senior National Security Council aide on Friday after receiving reports that he had publicly laced into the president and his senior aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka …

White House chief of staff says take Trump seriously when he calls press “the enemy”  —  Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” following the president's denunciations of the press as the “enemy.”

CPAC Keynote Speaker Announced  —  It was announced on Saturday that Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos will deliver next Saturday's keynote address at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.  Reports that he will be the keynote speaker leaked early Saturday morning on The Hollywood Reporter.

McCain: Dictators ‘get started by suppressing free press’  —  (CNN)Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators “get started by suppressing free press.”  —  It was a startling observation from a sitting member of Congress against the President …

Trump takes feud with press to campaign rally in Florida  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. - President Trump took his feud with the press to his first major campaign rally in a steamy airplane hangar outside of Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, vowing to achieve his legislative agenda despite the “lies …

U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes  —  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants  —  Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border.

Our Putin  —  Don't worry too much about whether Trump and the Russian leader are working together.  Worry about what they have in common.  —  WASHINGTON — On June 18, 2001, I attended Vladimir V. Putin's first meeting with the American news media.  We were seated at a large round table in the wood-paneled Kremlin Library.

Chaos in the White House: 'There's never been anything like this'  —  After the fastest, most furious week yet for the Trump administration, America's elder statesmen say they have never seen such turmoil or ineptitude  —  hen press officers at the White House glance up from their desks …

On this Remembrance Day, I hear terrible echoes of the past  — George Takei recalls his family being taken by soldiers from their home in LA and forced to live in an internment camp in 1942  — Sunday is the 75th anniversary of FDR executive order that allowed this discrimination against Japanese-Americans, he says

After 8 Years of Campaigner-in-Chief Obama, NPR Accuses Trump of ‘Permanent Campaign’  —  After eight years of Barack Obama putting his office into permanent campaign mode while keeping his campaign machinery in constant operation, NPR is accusing Donald J. Trump of waging a “permanent campaign.”

Trump, an Outsider Demanding Loyalty, Struggles to Fill Top Posts  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — During President Trump's transition to power, his team reached out to Elliott Abrams for help building a new administration.  Mr. Abrams, a seasoned Republican foreign policy official …

‘Blind sheikh’ convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in U.S. prison  —  Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a broader “war of urban terrorism” in the United States …

F-15s scramble to intercept unresponsive aircraft over restricted airspace over West Palm Beach  —  Two F-15s caused a ‘sonic boom’ as they raced from their base in Homestead, Fla., Friday to intercept an unresponsive general aviation aircraft that flew near Palm Beach during a stay by President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.