President Trump wants to sign off on “most if not all” of the documents revoking the security clearances, said one senior White House official, who indicated that communications aides have discussed the optimum times to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles.
The Justice Department is examining whether Elliott Broidy offered to influence the Trump administration for foreign officials, according to three people familiar with the inquiry.
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Democrats want the GOP to provide more documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. But missing in that fight is talk of what the next court would do on issues like health-care.
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Despite their youth, films such as “Children of Men,” “Dunkirk,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Spirited Away” can stand among their acclaimed forebears with confidence.
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Annan’s popular and influential reign at the United Nations — the body he led from 1997 to 2006 — was marred by White House anger at his opposition to the American invasion of Iraq.
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The former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russian contacts. He is the first charged defendant to cooperate in the special counsel probe of Russian interference in the election.
Isabel Moctezuma, with her 8-year-old daughter, Mia, lives in an apartment in Ames, Iowa. (Rachel Mummey for The Post)
Ames has boasted the country’s lowest annual average unemployment rate for more than two years. (Rachel Mummey for The Post)
Moctezuma hopes that “someday” she can own a home with a little garden for herself and her daughter. (Rachel Mummey for The Post)
The widespread prosperity often expected with ultra-low unemployment hasn’t materialized in Ames, Iowa, whose experience might be a harbinger of what the rest of the nation will face soon.
The president said “mistakes are being made” just two weeks after some social media companies banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Muriel E. Bowser’s tweet assailing the “reality star in the White House” brought attention to the low-key city leader.
Austrian officials’ unusual decision to order a raid against their own intelligence service reflects a messy emerging reality across Europe as parties once relegated to the fringes move to the center of power.
Retropolis
The Past, Rediscovered Queen Elizabeth’s cousin is expected to wed in the first same-sex royal wedding this summer — but he is far from the first gay British royal, according to historians.
The police chief in Chatsworth, Ga., defended his officers’ use of force, telling the Daily Citizen-News, “An 87-year-old woman with a knife still has the ability to hurt an officer.”
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