Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?  —  In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam.  —  For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about …

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Incorrectly Claims Academic All-American Honors  —  Claim from Whitaker's University of Iowa football days listed on résumé and government documents  —  Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. Attorney General, has incorrectly claimed …

Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit  —  President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet …

Federal workforce starts to feel pinch of prolonged shutdown  —  The partial government shutdown entered its fifth day Wednesday with no signs of a breakthrough and hundreds of thousands of federal workers about to feel the pinch of a protracted standoff.  —  President Donald Trump …

Dow gives back 282-point gain as Wall Street's wild ride continues  —  Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Wednesday as surges in retail and energy shares helped Wall Street regain the steep losses suffered in the previous session.  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 657 points higher …

Bad headlines for Trump also means ratings slump for Hannity  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The drumbeat of bad news for President Donald Trump hasn't been good for his most prominent backer in the media.  —  While Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity will end 2018 as cable news' most popular personality …

Nielsen deflects blame for boy's death in Border Patrol custody  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sought to deflect blame Wednesday for the Christmas Eve death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol agents, blaming “a system that prevents parents …

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?  Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.  —  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered.

Russia Warns United States: Don't Interfere in Saudi Royal Succession  —  Russia has warned the U.S. against any attempts to influence Saudi Arabia's royal succession, and offered its official support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  The prince is under international pressure …

How Trump gave away his secret war zone trip  —  The tweets stopped and soon the jig was up.  —  President Donald Trump's trip to Iraq this week, his first to a war zone as president, was supposed to be a surprise.  But the White House couldn't keep the sensitive trip a secret for long.

Ivanka Trump wears a summer dress and a bizarre full straw visor hat  —  Ivanka Trump rang in the holiday on Tuesday by heading out for a stroll near her family's Palm Beach, Florida estate on Christmas Day with husband Jared Kushner.

Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologizes for funding a group behind disinformation in Alabama race  —  Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologized on Wednesday for funding a group linked to a “highly disturbing” effort that spread disinformation during last year's Alabama special election …

Colin O'Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica With Final 32-Hour Push  —  The final miles of a nearly two-month race across Antarctica — a lonely effort marked by long days, short nights and stunning endurance — ended Wednesday with a sprint to the finish.

The Path to the Presidency Could Be Harder for White Democrats in 2020  —  Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think.  Yes, Republicans won the large majority of white voters who believed black disadvantage …

As national Women's March leaders face claims of anti-Semitism, Chicago group says it won't host January march, citing costs  —  Women's March Inc. co-President Tamika Mallory, shown in 2017, has praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on social media.

Donald Trump's Selective Service Records  —  For many years, Donald J. Trump asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition.  But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise.