WASHINGTON (AP) — Great president or greatest? That appeared to be the question at President Donald Trump’s first meeting of his full Cabinet on Monday, as top aides took turns piling praise on the boss. After Trump extolled the achievements of his young administration, asserting that he had accomplished more than any president in his […]
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Live Video: Intelligence chiefs testify before Senate Intelligence Committee
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, with Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right, questions Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and other top national security chiefs as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discusses gathering intelligence on foreign agents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Senate Intelligence Committee members, from left, […]
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White House: Trump will not try to stop Comey testimony by asserting executive privilege
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will not attempt to stop former FBI Director James Comey from testifying in a public hearing Thursday by asserting executive privilege, the White House said Monday. “The president’s power to assert executive privilege is well established,” principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters during the daily press briefing. […]
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Donald Trump vows to do whatever is necessary to protect U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he will do whatever is necessary to protect the United States from a “vile enemy” that he says has waged war on innocents for too long, vowing: “This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end.” Trump commented on the vehicle and knife attack that killed at least […]
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Paris climate accord: Donald Trump ‘stayed where he’s always been’
President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON — The pressure on President Donald Trump to remain in the Paris climate accord came from all sides. Silicon Valley titans, like Apple […]
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Donald Trump rejects moving Israel embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping back from a campaign promise, President Donald Trump on Thursday decided not to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, at least for the next six months. The White House described Trump’s waiver as a move to improve chances for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but the relocation also risked igniting […]
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Trump administration aims to open more Arctic areas for oil
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a directive aimed at spurring oil and natural gas development in Alaska, including a move to assess just how much crude might be lurking under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Zinke’s order, signed during a visit to Anchorage, also compels a rewrite of a 2013 plan that limited oil and […]
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Trump plan to end state and local tax deductions likely to prove difficult
As Republicans try to figure out a way to deliver on tax cuts President Donald Trump promised, they’re taking a hard look at the possibility of eliminating the income tax deduction for state and local taxes. Though Congress is unlikely to go along, it’s a move that would sock many Maine taxpayers who file federal […]
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Mike Dubke resigns as White House communications director
WASHINGTON — Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Donald Trump’s senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal. Dubke, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation May 18. He offered to stay on to help manage […]
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Donald Trump gets his intelligence in small bites
The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker explain how President Trump receives his daily intelligence briefing, and the techniques briefers use to give the president information. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump consumes classified intelligence like he does most everything else in life: ravenously and impatiently, eager to ingest glinting nuggets […]