Ronny Jackson won't return to old job as Trump's physician  —  White House physician Ronny Jackson will not return to his role as the president's personal physician, according to two senior administration officials, after a string of allegations caused the Navy rear admiral to withdraw …

Michelle Wolf got it just right … “Thank you!”  —  That's how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer's declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was “a disgrace.”  Her response is instructive: To Wolf …

Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters - so-called millennials - as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.

Trump Should Win Nobel Peace Prize, Says South Korean President  —  Donald Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between North and South Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday.  Relations between North and South have taken remarkable steps over the past two months …

The Original Donald Trump  —  Amid the aftershocks of Donald Trump's firing of James Comey last May, I went to see Angels in America at the same theater in London, the National, where I'd first seen it as a New York Times drama critic some 25 years earlier.  The play didn't transport me quite …

Third RFE/RL Journalist Dies As Toll Rises In Kabul Suicide Bombings  —  KABUL — A pair of coordinated suicide bombings claimed to have been carried out by the Islamic State (IS) militant group have rocked central Kabul near the country's intelligence agency, killing at least 29 people …

BREAKING.  Huge Mother of All Explosions Hits Syrian City of Hama (VIDEO)  —  Right now reporting is sketchy and confused.  This is the synopsis: Sunday evening, Damascus time, several Syrian Army bases were struck by what appear to be airstrikes.  There was a major explosion at a Syrian Army base near the city of Hama.

Former George W. Bush ethics lawyer ditches GOP, to seek U.S. Senate in Minn. as Democrat  —  Richard Painter will take on Tina Smith, who holds the seat now as Al Franken's successor.  —  Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House …

‘Who the hell is this person?’  Trump's Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project  —  A West Palm Beach doctor's ties to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago social circle have enabled him to hold up the biggest health information technology project in history — the transformation of the VA's digital records system.

The Spy Who Came Home  —  Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.  —  Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor.  It was late December, and bitterly cold …

The one-trick pony: Inside Trump's negotiating style  —  President Trump tells people he keeps the world guessing with his wild unpredictability.  But those who work most closely with him say he's a one-trick pony in negotiations.  —  The trick: Threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension …

GOP civil war in Ohio threatens another special election loss  —  Republicans' latest special election headache is unfolding in central Ohio, where a chaotic primary has divided the party and stoked fears of losing another seat in Donald Trump territory to Democrats.

The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.

Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says  —  Gauges worn on troops' helmets and body armor register substantial blasts in combat and in training  —  WASHINGTON—Thousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions …

‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers' brains on an industrial scale  —  Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains

White House mystery: Where is Macron's gifted oak tree?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A mystery is brewing at the White House about what happened to the oak tree President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted there last week.  —  The sapling was a gift from Macron on the occasion of his state visit.

Showdown builds between Comey, House: Just what did FBI director say about Michael Flynn?  —  There's an intense conflict brewing between some Capitol Hill Republicans and fired FBI director James Comey.  The Republicans say Comey has been lying about what he told them in a March 2017 meeting.

GOP candidates' circular firing squad ahead of Indiana Senate primary  —  GNAW BONE, Ind. — Drunken driving, self-dealing and false advertising.  —  Those are just some of the charges voters here are sifting through in a brutal three-way Republican primary that will determine who gets …