‘Looking Like a Liar or a Fool’: What It Means to Work for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule …

Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right  —  They are called “must-runs,” and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group — short video segments that are centrally produced by the company.  Station managers around the country …

Former Trump Adviser Paul Manafort's Bank Records Sought in Probe  —  Federal investigators looking into Russian election interference requested information; New York investigators also examining his real-estate transactions  —  The Justice Department last month requested banking records …

The Senate Starts to Look at Trump's Businesses  —  I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump's, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.  He laughed and said that there is no way Trump could have been part of such a conspiracy.

Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands  —  Dutch TV did what no American TV network dares, suggesting Trump's past includes illegal racketeering.  —  Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs …

Election Is Over, but Trump Still Can't Seem to Get Past It  —  WASHINGTON — In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election.

Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm  —  CORONADO, Calif. — With the White House in meltdown mode, top Republican Party officials and operatives gathered at a posh oceanside resort here and contemplated a 2018 midterm election that will test them in unimaginable ways.

This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them  —  I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.  —  When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback …

The New Yorker drew Comey being dragged off a plane.  The United passenger's lawyer critiqued it.  —  Thomas Demetrio is no art critic; he's the attorney for David Dao — whom you and probably the rest of the world saw dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.

Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump  —  Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.  —  We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this.

Source: 4 to be interviewed for FBI Director post Saturday  —  Top Justice Department officials are scheduled to interview four candidates Saturday to serve as FBI director on a permanent basis, a source familiar with the process told POLITICO Friday night.  —  The four potential nominees set …

Trump's Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist  —  The USDA's research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition.  Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency's “chief scientist” and be chosen “from among distinguished scientists …

Hannity: Trump Should End Press Briefings and ‘Tweet Out All of His Accomplishments’ Instead  —  Sean Hannity opened his show with a monologue attacking the mainstream media, but this time he used the opportunity to voice his support for President Donald Trump ending those daily press briefings.

Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates  —  Throughout Donald Trump's business career, some executives who came to work for him were taken aside by colleagues and warned to assume that their discussions with the boss were being recorded.

Hacking Attack has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout  —  Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain on Saturday raced to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they do not succeed, companies will lose their data unless they meet ransom demands.