The White House Seems Excited to Shut Down the Government  —  Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump's hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President's progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns  —  America's doctor was fired on Friday and replaced by a nurse.  —  Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration.  He was replaced by his deputy …

Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing  —  The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty.  —  Amid investigations into Russian election interference, perhaps we ought to consider whether the Kremlin, to hurt Democrats, helped put Chelsea Clinton on the cover of Variety.

Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics.  Then He Shaped an Election.  —  As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election.  —  WASHINGTON — The day before he upended …

'The Ideas Made It, But I Didn't'  —  His first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson.  He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech.

The history of the first 100 days — and why Trump is right about the ‘ridiculous standard’  —  The date was July 24, 1933.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting behind a desk in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room.  To his left was a microphone, to his right a glass of water.

Sources: Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried to use Trump advisers, including Carter Page, to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials.

Pence: U.S. to honor refugee deal with Australia  —  The United States will honor an Obama-era agreement with Australia to help resettle Syrian refugees, despite the Trump administration not favoring the arrangement, Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday.

Trump Vows to Unveil Tax-Cut Plan Next Week, Surprising Staff  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his Treasury Department on Friday to review measures put in place by the Obama administration, setting the stage for a rollback of regulations that were intended to curtail corporate tax evasion and prevent another financial crisis.

Trump OKs DACA Amnesty: ‘This Is a Case of Heart’  —  Illegal aliens who crossed the border as children don't have to worry about being sent home, President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a Friday interview.  —  Illegals enrolled in the President Barack Obama's …

Milo Yiannopoulos Plots Comeback at UC Berkeley  —  Yiannopoulos wouldn't say who is backing the effort, financially or otherwise, nor would he say which, if any, student group has invited him to speak at Berkeley.  —  Milo Yiannopoulos is plotting his comeback, allegedly to take place at UC Berkeley …

Excerpts from AP interview with President Donald Trump  —  Excerpts from The Associated Press interview conducted Friday with President Donald Trump, with editing for clarity and brevity:  —  On the legal status of the “dreamers,” young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally and protected …

A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces.  Head-Scratching Ensues.  —  Archival research doesn't get much more exciting than the 2004 heist movie “National Treasure.”  Nicolas Cage, playing a historian named Benjamin Franklin Gates, discovers a coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.

Why Trump likes his freewheeling Oval Office schedule  —  President Donald Trump leaves large blocks of “private time” on his Oval Office schedule for spontaneous meetings and phone chats with ex-aides, friends, media figures, lawmakers and members of his Cabinet — an old habit he's carried …

Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her life has changed since transitioning into a woman  —  Two years ago, the celebrated Olympic hero and famous reality TV show dad then known as Bruce Jenner revealed to the world in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer that he had struggled his entire life with gender identity.

WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges  —  WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named “Weeping Angel.”  It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV's built-in microphone.

Department of Justice Sends Letter to Nine Jurisdictions Requiring Proof of Compliance with 8 U.S.C.  § 1373  —  Today, the Department of Justice sent the attached letters to nine jurisdictions which were identified in a May 2016 report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General …