White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt  —  Trump resists calls for Pruitt resignation as White House reviews controversies  —  WASHINGTON—White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection …

Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …

For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …

Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night  —  The president's top economic adviser has spent the past week tirelessly pushing the White House's controversial trade proposals.  —  National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow appears to have been blindsided …

Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.

With important elections coming up in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan and more countries in the next year, one of my top priorities for 2018 is making sure we support positive discourse and prevent interference in these elections.  —  After we identified Russian interference in the 2016 US elections …

Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.

‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl  —  As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.

Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning  —  The firing of Kevin Williamson from The Atlantic on the day he was set to give an opening Q&A in their offices was sadly unsurprising given the pattern of these types of hires.  It is an incident that will be referred to largely as a …

Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …

Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump  —  likened her husband's presidency to having “the good parent” at home at a women's leadership conference on Thursday.  —  At the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, Obama appeared to take shots at President Trump

Trump's Right to Say He's Not Launching a Trade War With China.  He's Doing Something Bigger. … Hours ago, President Trump, acting under the authority of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to consider the imposition of tariffs on $100 billion of Chinese goods.

Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man.  He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.

April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts  —  The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.

Rallying Nation  —  In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political  —  Tens of millions of Americans have joined protests and rallies in the past two years, their activism often driven by admiration or outrage toward President Trump …

Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon and back-stabbing in DC  —  It has taken a Herculean effort to pin down Anthony Scaramucci.  Our lunch was originally scheduled for last November.  Then Scaramucci stumbled on an old tweet by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber, which compared the language he used …