Evening Edition: Trump governs by disruption — and overloads the circuits
A closer look at the rhetoric in Trump's announcement about the Iran nuclear deal; Trump's pick for DHS chief was at the center of the Katrina disaster 12 years ago
This president cares about ratings, praise and success. Absent demonstrable achievements, he reverts to what worked during the campaign, which is to depend on his own instincts and to touch the hot buttons that roused his voters on the trail. As commander in chief, he has never tried seriously to reach beyond that base.
The president, who said he would "decertify" the agreement that is still backed by U.S. allies in Europe, claimed Friday that the "regime harbored high-level terrorists" after 9/11 and that the Iranian government was on the verge of "total collapse" before sanctions were lifted in 2015.
What Kirstjen Nielsen did — and didn't do — in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane will probably come up in her confirmation hearing to lead the agency whose $40 billion budget includes managing catastrophes such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
The residents of Santa Rosa, Calif., bobbed in their watery refuge — bodies shivering from the cold even as their faces were blistering from the heat — and watched their home of 17 years turn to ash.
It was a major denunciation of the A-list Hollywood producer, someone who helped shape Oscar races for decades. Accusations against him appear to show a striking pattern, going back to the dawn of his career, of ruthlessness and manipulation.
Joshua Boyle's claim, which authorities have not confirmed, added another layer to the mystery surrounding the Canadian-American couple, who had children while in captivity and were rescued this week after five years.
The devilishly numbered Finnair flight has made the Copenhagen-to-Helsinki trip on 21 Friday the 13ths. The airline is changing that number to a less-sinister Flight 954.
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