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WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican operative and former Trump campaign chairman, arrived in a courtroom in northern Virginia on Thursday in a wheelchair and wearing a green jumpsuit and staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. In the end, he got off …

The family of Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was filmed staring down a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., last month, is suing the Washington Post for its coverage of the incident. The suit, which seeks $250 million in damages, accuses the Postof “targeting and bullying” …

President Trump on Friday morning signed a national emergency declaration in order to build a wall along America’s southern border. He announced the news during a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House. “I’m going to be signing a national emergency and it’s been signed many times …

President Trump took a break from his border wall obsession Wednesday morning to dust off a favorite fixation from yesteryear: federal money being used to help California combat wildfires. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen,” …

It will come as no surprise that the White House is in chaos, but what is shocking is that this fact is being confirmed by President Donald Trump‘s outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly. In an exit interview with theLos Angeles Times,Kelly admits that the White House is not quite …

Can you #MAGA too hard? According to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel you can, under very specific circumstances. The OSC on Friday found six Trump Administration officials guilty of violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law prohibiting government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job. At …

One of President Trump’s key campaign promises was to “drain the swamp” of government corruption and bureaucracy – but as John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he’s instead “drained the phrase of its original meaning.” The comedian spotlighted several of the key “swamp creatures” from Trump’s cabinet, including …

In the build-up to Tuesday’s midterm election, President Trump has used immigration as a key talking point. He’s repeatedly demonized the Central American immigrant caravan, stating in a recent press conference that “[doesn’t] want them in our country” — and he’s even threatened to end birthright citizenship and send 15,000 …

President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law and close advisor Jared Kushner likely paid zero dollars in federal income taxes between 2009 and 2016,new documents obtained by theNew York Timesreveal. Kushner used a “common tax-minimizing maneuver,”Times reporters Jesse Drucker and Emily Flitter wrote, to make it look like his company was losing money …

On Wednesday, the Washington Post published a storythat delved inside the complicated relationship between White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George. Though George once supported Trump, he has since publicly turned against the president, most notably through his Twitter account. Conway, meanwhile, remains Trump’s most loyal on-camera surrogate, …