Trump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad  —  Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States.  —  Signaling the focus of talks Secretary …

Trump's Shadow Is Looming Over This Special Election  —  SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia — Amy King, an accountant in this Atlanta suburb, said she's always been a Republican.  —  But when a Republican, Judson Hill — the first candidate to enter the first competitive congressional race …

What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria  —  Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.

TV ads slam Republicans over would-be Obamacare repeal  —  Moderate House Republicans who flirted with supporting the GOP's now-stalled Obamacare replacement will face attack ads in their districts this week for doing so.  —  Save My Care, a coalition of left-leaning health care advocacy groups fighting …

Can Bill O'Reilly Keep His Scold's Perch?  —  In 2000, cable news's transformational star — a telegenic scold who knew wrong from right as sure as he knew that a break from “traditional values” would be this nation's ruination — wrote the following words in his book “The O'Reilly Factor”:

White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears  —  President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term.  But inside his pressure-cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks.  —  The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …

Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's district includes the coastal cities of Seal Beach, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.  (Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call)  —  The arm of the Democratic Party in charge …

How Neil Gorsuch could affect the Supreme Court  —  Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick to fill the Supreme Court slot left open following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed by the Senate after a bruising fight when the upper chamber's majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell …

How Bannon's multimedia machine drove a movement and paid him millions  —  Stephen K. Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie “Clinton Cash.”  —  It was July 20, the homestretch of the 2016 presidential campaign …

Boyfriend forced to watch as refugee rapes his girlfriend at knifepoint during camping trip in Germany  —  A refugee from Ghana has been arrested for dragging a young woman from her tent and raping her while she was on a camping holiday with her boyfriend.  —  The young couple were on a camping trip …

Trump's Secret Weapon Against Obama's Legacy  —  On February 28, President Donald Trump signed three bills into law.  He held an Oval Office ceremony to spotlight two of them, H.R. 321 and H.R. 255, both of them feel-good symbolic resolutions declaring the importance of women in science and engineering.

SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON TAXES VEERS INTO UNEXPECTED CORNERS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.

'That's the Job.  We Are Adversarial.'  —  President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R .person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week.  —  Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Man-spreading dispute over seats on J train leads to hammer attack and large brawl  —  An argument over man-spreading on a Lower East Side subway train ended in an all-out brawl with one man attacking another with a hammer, officials said Saturday.  —  The 30-year-old hammer victim …

Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy  —  Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal?  Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.