Trump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad  —  Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States.  —  Signaling the focus of talks Secretary …

Trump's Shadow Is Looming Over This Special Election  —  SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia — Amy King, an accountant in this Atlanta suburb, said she's always been a Republican.  —  But when a Republican, Judson Hill — the first candidate to enter the first competitive congressional race …

What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria  —  Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.

TV ads slam Republicans over would-be Obamacare repeal  —  Moderate House Republicans who flirted with supporting the GOP's now-stalled Obamacare replacement will face attack ads in their districts this week for doing so.  —  Save My Care, a coalition of left-leaning health care advocacy groups fighting …

White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears  —  President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term.  But inside his pressure-cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks.  —  The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …

Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's district includes the coastal cities of Seal Beach, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.  (Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call)  —  The arm of the Democratic Party in charge …

Can Bill O'Reilly Keep His Scold's Perch?  —  In 2000, cable news's transformational star — a telegenic scold who knew wrong from right as sure as he knew that a break from “traditional values” would be this nation's ruination — wrote the following words in his book “The O'Reilly Factor”:

Donald Trump's Pick For Top Economic Adviser Is Pro-Immigration, Pro-Outsourcing  —  President Donald Trump has picked an economic advisor who believes in growing the nation's economy by importing workers and consumers, and by expanding free-trade outsourcing, despite Trump's “buy American, hire American” campaign promises.

Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy  —  Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal?  Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.

'That's the Job.  We Are Adversarial.'  —  President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R .person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week.  —  Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Boyfriend forced to watch as refugee rapes his girlfriend at knifepoint during camping trip in Germany  —  A refugee from Ghana has been arrested for dragging a young woman from her tent and raping her while she was on a camping holiday with her boyfriend.  —  The young couple were on a camping trip …

How Neil Gorsuch could affect the Supreme Court  —  Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick to fill the Supreme Court slot left open following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed by the Senate after a bruising fight when the upper chamber's majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell …

SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON TAXES VEERS INTO UNEXPECTED CORNERS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.

Trump's Secret Weapon Against Obama's Legacy  —  On February 28, President Donald Trump signed three bills into law.  He held an Oval Office ceremony to spotlight two of them, H.R. 321 and H.R. 255, both of them feel-good symbolic resolutions declaring the importance of women in science and engineering.

How Bannon's multimedia machine drove a movement and paid him millions  —  Stephen K. Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie “Clinton Cash.”  —  It was July 20, the homestretch of the 2016 presidential campaign …

Man-spreading dispute over seats on J train leads to hammer attack and large brawl  —  An argument over man-spreading on a Lower East Side subway train ended in an all-out brawl with one man attacking another with a hammer, officials said Saturday.  —  The 30-year-old hammer victim …