German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to the White House for a working lunch with President DonaldTrump. After the pomp and spectacle showered on French President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the week, Friday’s meeting seemed more like homework than a celebration of shared values and bonhomie.
In a dramatic turn of events that showed the Trump White House retains a firm grip on Senate Republicans, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in favor of CIA Chief Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas has been keeping track of White House staff turnover since the late 1990s, but until President Donald Trump took the oath of office, the Brookings Institution senior fellow told the Review-Journal, “no one’s ever cared about it.”
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, drew bipartisan support in Congress but was opposed by groups promoting such disparate causes as free speech, technology and sex workers’ rights.
President Donald Trump’s decision to send Vice President Mike Pence to South America this week in his stead forced Pence to cancel a planned appearance at a fundraising luncheon in Las Vegas for Nevada Sen. Dean Heller on Friday.
President Donald Trump wants to help federal inmates “who have served their time get a second chance.” Thank Trump’s senior aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner, for whom prison reform is personal.
President Donald Trump says he wants to remake U.S. foreign policy, but doesn’t have a fully staffed army of diplomats and national security figures to lead the charge.
