Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’  —  WASHINGTON — Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war” with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …

Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd  —  On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.

The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.  The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …

Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump plans to make Mexico pay for his border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports into the United States from Mexico, raising billions of dollars that would cover the cost of the new barrier.

Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads  —  The Trump administration has pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season, according to sources at Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.

In Need of Allies, Trump and Britain's Theresa May to Meet  —  President Donald Trump is set to meet his first world leader since taking office — British Prime Minister Theresa May, a friendly ally who hopes to nudge the populist president toward the political mainstream.

Voter fraud probe traced back to ex-MS welfare head  —  The former Mississippi official whose tweet may have inspired President Trump to order a “major investigation” into voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election says he has been receiving death threats.

In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back  —  MEXICO CITY — Hunkered down in the presidential palace, Enrique Peña Nieto, the unpopular leader of Mexico, was besieged on both sides.  —  The new American president, Donald J. Trump, had just ordered …

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to apocalypse and 1 person is to blame … Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change.  —  Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that sets the clock …

‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway  —  When Kellyanne Conway took over as Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager in August — his third in under a year — there were few signs that Trump would emerge victorious on election night just three months later.

GANG RAPE ARRESTS Two Afghan migrants revealed as those arrested over horrific three-hour rape streamed on Facebook Live in Sweden  —  Victim had clothes pulled off by armed men and was sexually assaulted before cops arrived and turned off the camera  —  TWO migrants from Afghanistan …

Mexico's Richest Man Carlos Slim Just Called a Rare Press Conference  —  Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press conference for Friday amid growing tensions between the two nations.

‘Look, a Bird!’  Trolling by Distraction  —  In April 2014, an attack at the main railway station in Urumqi, a city in the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang, killed three people and injured dozens more.  The incident—an explosion followed by a knife attack—came at the end …

Trump's Team at EPA Vetting ‘Controversial’ Public Meetings and Presentations  —  President Donald Trump long ago announced his provocative intentions for the Environmental Protection Agency, pledging during the campaign to get rid of the agency “in almost every form,” with only “little tidbits left.”

The Trump Administration's Day One Moves Were Copied From Mitt Romney's Playbook  —  WASHINGTON — When White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked Wednesday about a potential executive order that would revive Bush-era detention and interrogation policies, he flatly denied any knowledge of its existence.

Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.  —  The US President's sweeping new executive order on immigration, which he signed on the fifth day of his presidency, includes a paragraph mandating the Secretary for Homeland Security to …

Al Gore will host canceled climate change summit  —  Climate activist and former vice president Al Gore  —  is teaming up with the American Public Health Association and other organizations to hold a summit on climate change and health that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled earlier this week.

‘America First’ is not a threat but a promise  —  “From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first,” President Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address.  As has been his habit, he added to the prepared text the word “only” and employed the rhetorical device of repetition by repeating “America first.”