Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”  —  Today, I signed into law the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo  —  A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …

Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech  —  https://apnews.com/aedbaf4543ea464dbcef 78491ba281b9  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.

Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …

John Kelly closes the Oval Office door  —  The door to the Oval Office used to be wide open, with favored officials drifting in and out — even in the middle of meetings — to kibitz with Trump.  —  Now, the door is closed.  Gen. John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff …

White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in bizarre exchange  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller smiled as he volunteered to “take one actual last question” at Wednesday's news briefing, before press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the podium.

Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …

Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …

Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers  —  State attorneys are dismissing dozens of cases in Baltimore after reviewing a video that appears to show a police officer planting evidence while two other officers look on.  —  Over a hundred criminal cases …

South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton's ‘proud of the Confederacy’ remarks stir controversy  —  COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy” and pledged “we're not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.

How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President  —  Months before he declared himself a candidate, Trump was set to play commander-in-chief in the schlocky Syfy film franchise that has lured everyone from Ann Coulter to Charo for cameos while regular Tara Reid makes a quarter of one male co-star's pay.

NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …

JAMES COMEY HAS BOOK DEAL, PUBLICATION SET FOR NEXT SPRING  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has a book deal.  —  Flatiron Books told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Comey is writing a book about leadership and decision making that will draw upon his career in government.

Op-Ed Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?  —  The majority of Venezuelans oppose the assembly and the new charter it will draft, fearing it will give Maduro dictatorial powers.  —  “Pundits should have fixed terms,” left-wing author Naomi Klein recently told the BBC.

Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.

EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore's Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household  —  On Friday, Al Gore's sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” - “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” - arrives in movie theaters across the country.  But there's another inconvenient sequel worth noting and …

Kobach had duty to publicize new voting schedule; it appears that he didn't  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach presides over Kansas' Electoral College vote for the President of the United States in the Senate chambers of the Kansas Statehouse on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 in Topeka, Kan.

Democrats Could Have a 2020 Presidential Field As Wide As an Iowa Cornfield  —  It's the early, silly season of 2020 presidential speculation.  So there's nothing unusual about speculation surrounding two fairly obscure Democratic House members, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Tim Ryan of Ohio.

Trump, GOP senators to introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels  —  President Trump will appear with a pair of conservative Republican senators at the White House on Wednesday to unveil legislation aimed at slashing legal immigration levels over a decade, a goal Trump endorsed on the campaign trail.

Trump Has Launched A “Real News” Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law  —  In one video, Lara Trump said she'd be back every week to provide updates on the president's accomplishments.  —  After months of denigrating the media as fake news, President Trump has launched …

Medicare-for-All Isn't the Solution for Universal Health Care  —  The health-care debate is moving to the left.  But if progressives don't start sweating the details, we're going to fail yet again.  —  Within the broad Democratic coalition, it's pretty clear that the discussion of health care has shifted to the left.

Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna  —  Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?  —  Dan Sisco has discovered a technology that allows him to access half a dozen major TV channels, completely free.