After nearly nine months of the Trump administration, many of the closest U.S. allies have concluded that the hoped-for "learning curve" they believed would make President Trump a reliable partner is not going to happen. Policy, and who makes it, remains a riddle, and there is growing acceptance the administration's unpredictability is a permanent condition.
The president could be derailing a deal to protect "dreamers" for a wall that he hasn't been serious about. By bringing up the wall as part of a deal with Democrats, it's pretty clear he doesn't want to make one.
The tech giant found tens of thousands of dollars were spent on ads by Russian agents on YouTube, as well as advertising associated with Google search, Gmail and the company's DoubleClick ad network.
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It could offer evidence backing up a Russian lawyer's claims that the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. was solely to discuss a 2012 law despised by the Kremlin that imposed financial sanctions on wealthy Russians as punishment for human rights abuses.
We used to bemoan the "endless campaign" — but now we're hooked on it. Perhaps Democrats more than anyone. And they have started flocking to folksy and flinty locales in Iowa and New Hampshire, and snacking on canapes in the Hamptons, clearly thirsty for the presidency.
President Trump's first and third wives, Ivana and Melania, have started a very public war of words — and even his second wife, Marla Maples, is thrown some shade out of the spat, to boot.
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The "SportsCenter" anchor was suspended for two weeks for a violation of "social media guidelines," according a statement from the network. Last month, Hill called President Trump "a white supremacist" in a tweet, drawing a rebuke from the White House.
There's a ripple through a city whenever a president or vice president visits: street closures, added security, added nuisances. The full costs of those visits are probably incalculable, since they have effects beyond the places directly affected.
Scott Pruitt said he will begin the process of repealing legislation limiting greenhouse-gas emissions at existing plants with an announcement tomorrow.
University of Chicago professor Richard Thaler's work on behavioral economics tries to understand how humans make decisions, especially bad ones. And he had a cameo in 2015's "The Big Short."
Coming forward isn't easy, especially when women make up a small percentage of the writers, directors and producers — and there are fewer female roles in movies. That only helps reinforce a noxious environment in which women feel they can't speak out.
More than 50,000 acres are burning in Napa and Sonoma counties, leaving hundreds of homes, wineries and other structures damaged or destroyed as the state's dreaded fire season kicks into high gear, with little relief in sight.
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