In Trump era, the death of the White House press conference  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential news conference, a time-honored tradition going back generations, appears to be no longer.  —  More than a year has passed since President Donald Trump held the only solo news conference …

Famed photographer among 29 killed in twin Afghanistan blasts  —  Journalists among dozens killed in Kabul bomb attacks  —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital.

Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.

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.

Mystery solved: Why Trump-Macron friendship tree vanished  —  PARIS (AP) — The French president's office says there's nothing mysterious about the disappearance of an oak tree he planted on the White House lawn.  —  It was put in quarantine, like other plants or animals brought into U.S. territory.

‘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.

Josh Hawley is trying to reassure Republicans he can still beat Claire McCaskill  —  Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley moved Monday to quell spiraling anxiety among senior Republicans and top party donors that his bid to oust vulnerable Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is slowly slipping away.

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 …

Israel's Netanyahu to make ‘significant’ announcement on Iran  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a televised announcement Monday evening (1700 GMT) in what his office said would be a “significant development” regarding the 2015 nuclear agreement between global powers and Iran.

Exclusive: U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn's oil refinery - sources  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump …

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 …

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 …

In private chat with senator, Trump hints at policy shift in Afghanistan — and a return to isolationism … In the days leading up to a key vote over the fate of his nominee for secretary of state, President Trump found a way to win over one of the biggest skeptics in the Senate.

U.S. Confirms Delivery Of Javelin Antitank Missiles To Ukraine  —  KYIV — The United States has confirmed to RFE/RL its delivery of American-made, Javelin antitank missile systems to Ukraine in a move that is welcome in Kyiv but will almost certainly enrage Moscow amid a four-year conflict …

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 …

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.

Betsy DeVos was asked, again, about visiting struggling schools.  A staffer interjected. … While attending a robotics competition in her home state of Michigan this past week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was asked by a reporter if she had plans to visit some of the struggling schools in the area …

Exclusive: Fired RedState Writer Slams Site Over Hypocrisy of Layoffs: We Were ‘Insufficiently Partisan’  —  The conservative blog RedState experienced “mass firings” Friday because of what its parent company, Salem Media, characterized as a decision influenced by finances.