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[embedded content] Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis shocked CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin on Friday by declaring on live television that he believes “in only two things completely: the First Amendment and boobs.” But the network really shouldn’t have been surprised by Travis’s crass remark. He has used the line before. Travis, who also writes […]Read More

Up next in Trump speeches Now watching 17:25 Watch Trump’s full speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force Now watching 14:51 Trump’s full remarks in remembrance of 9/11 Now watching 30:22 President Trump’s full press conference with Kuwait’s emir Now watching 35:01 Watch Trump’s entire tax reform speech Now watching 33:29 President […]Read More

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during an event to formally launch the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. (Patrick Semansky/AP) Perhaps since the birth of the Religious Right in the 1970s, the term “values voters” has been associated with the socially conservative politics of Republicans — usually evangelicals and Catholics. Such issues as abortion, […]Read More

ESPN’s Jemele Hill, center. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) Americans have often identified sports as iconic and patriotic symbols of Americana. That’s especially true for America’s pastimes of baseball, NASCAR and football. And it’s why some sports fans don’t appreciate it when people within the sports world get political — particularly if their politics are viewed as […]Read More

The Trump administration is quietly moving to allow energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the first time in more than 30 years, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, with a draft rule that would lay the groundwork for drilling. Congress has sole authority to determine whether oil and gas drilling […]

As President Trump’s voter fraud commission prepared to convene in New Hampshire this week, it already faced questions about its seriousness of purpose and whether it was a hopelessly biased endeavor. Then things got worse. An email surfaced in which the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky, one of the commission’s most conservative members, lamented that […]Read More

President Trump’s latest tendency to turn to Democrats to hash out major legislative deals has left GOP leaders facing a new reality as a daunting fall agenda looms: They are at their lowest moment of influence of the year. Despite their control of both chambers and with a GOP partner in the White House, congressional […]

Robert Kraft, the owner of the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots, joined President Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and their wives for dinner on Friday, Feb. 10 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Reuters) Earlier this year, three watchdog groups made a formal public-records request for all “presidential visitors” at Mar-a-Lago, President […]

President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., in April. (Jim Watston/AFP/Getty Images) During the first few months of his presidency, Donald Trump regularly traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort. He spent a quarter of his first month in office […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting on June 21 with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election and possible connection to the Trump campaign. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) A questionable ethics move. A fascinating expansion of the Russia-collusion investigation. Unmasking unmasked. And a humiliating experience for Trump’s attorney […]

President Trump’s travel ban has been challenged in court at every turn. Now the Supreme Court is allowing a limited version to take effect, but with an expanded list of familial exemptions. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) This post was originally published in June and has been updated.  In President Trump’s perfect world, his travel ban […]Read More

[embedded content] Outrage is a difficult thing to measure, but this seems like as good a gauge as any: President Trump’s base is so agitated by his willingness to leave a border wall out of a DACA deal that Infowars founder Alex Jones is entertaining the possibility of backing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson over Trump […]