Three weeks into President Trump’s term, Democrats have almost entirely adopted the demands of their base, which has rallied against Trump with fervent intensity. They’re hopeful that the new activism more closely resembles the Tea Party movement, which embraced electoral politics, than the Occupy Wall Street movement, which did not. But will it lead the party to electoral gains?
It was the country’s first launch since Donald Trump was elected U.S. president. Speaking at a joint appearance in Florida with Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the missile test “absolutely intolerable” and urged Pyongyang to “fully comply with the United Nations Security Council resolutions.”
Stephen Miller, a top adviser to President Trump, was one of the leading advocates of the executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, and he wrote some of Trump’s most strident campaign speeches.
An aerial view of Narsaq in Greenland. (Sirio Magnabosco/Arctic Times Project)
While the world focuses on the potentially disastrous effects of Greenland’s melting ice cap, Greenlanders themselves are struggling to solve a very different problem: how to tap their wealth of natural resources without inviting the environmental and political problems that have devastated other developing nations.
Whether it's arguing for “alternative facts” or simply attempting to spin the news in ways that are positive for the administration, Conway has become the undisputed cable news voice of the Trump White House — and, in a way, Trump’s voice on cable networks.
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Federal officials insist they have not made fundamental changes in enforcement actions, but activists say the rules of engagement have changed. “The bottom line is, overnight, people are terrorized,” the executive director of Casa de Maryland said.
Florida GOP official in viral town hall video is known for sharing misleading stories, bigoted jokes
The county-level Republican Party official in Florida has shared jokes on social media comparing African American rioters to monkeys and accusing Hillary Clinton of murder.
The late-night comedy show doubled down on having women portray the men of the new administration, while Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin was back as host.
Even as the militant group suffers setbacks on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, it is cultivating adolescents in the West. Officials lack the legal authority to track children the same way they monitor adults, creating a major counterterrorism challenge.
Police are still seeking leads and a suspect in the shooting death of Johan de Leede. (Family photo)
Nearly 11 months after the murder of 83-year-old Johan de Leede, his family said that it makes no more sense today than it did that night when he was killed. Who would target an elderly man quietly living out his golden years?
Rosa Maria Ortega, a registered Republican, had been voting for more than a decade. Her attorney is arguing that the sentence is unusually harsh and meant to appease those “swept up in the Trump hysteria."
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With health-care coverage in flux and abortion access uncertain, women are “Pence-proofing” their uteruses.
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