Russian President Vladimir Putin’s action is the single-largest forced reduction in embassy staff since 1917 and a dramatic escalation in the Kremlin’s retaliation to sanctions over its meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. It also indicates that Russia has apparently abandoned its hopes for better relations with the United States under the Trump administration.
In a sign that tensions are spiraling upward rapidly, the United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula and conducted a successful missile defense test over the Pacific Ocean. On Friday, North Korea launched a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
Turnout was uncharacteristically low for the vote, a critical stage in the crisis that could mint the Western Hemisphere’s newest dictatorship. The election will create what critics call a puppet congress with vast powers to rewrite the country’s constitution.
President Trump greets Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 9. (Jabin Botsford/Post)
They were an unlikely pair that connected as like-minded populists, until the bond between President Trump and Jeff Sessions shattered when the attorney general recused himself from the Russia investigation. For four months, they have barely spoken, but Sessions is determined to soldier on.
Most people aren’t even aware of the one-room museum, which features the agency’s work through more than four decades featuring topics like regulating carbon emissions and the Paris climate accord. Now it is being reworked to reflect the priorities of the Trump administration.
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Seventy percent of the cases involving nearly 100,000 parents and children who have sought refuge through the courts since 2014 have ended with deportation orders.
The legal complaint to be filed with the FTC alleges Google is gaining access to a trove of highly sensitive personal information without revealing how they got it or giving consumers a meaningful way to opt-out.
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Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen finally come face to face, while death comes for yet another character in Westeros.
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It's entirely possible the justices simply have little appetite for tackling the controversial matter of guns in the absence of a lower court disagreement that would force their hands.
In 2002, the FDA approved the much-heralded permanent contraceptive device. Why are so many women speaking out against it?
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Self-censorship has permeated the media after Gawker went bankrupt in the wake of an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed by the pro wrestler and bankrolled by President Trump confidant Peter Thiel.
She’s a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader and a Republican who named her dog after Ivanka Trump. He’s the top prosecutor in Palm Beach County and may run for for Congress as a Democrat. It didn’t work out.
