How does a president get to knock down the East Wing? Is that even legal? By what authority does he do the things he does?

This was a week in which Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself, wearing a crown, dropping a planeload of feces on ...

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It may be President Trump’s biggest gamble yet: an Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, intended to end the war in Ukraine that Putin himself started. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, David Ignatius of ...

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Trump’s Figurative and Literal Wrecking BallThis week, in a symbolic and brazen display of unchecked power, President Trump ...

The Watergate hotel and condominium complex pictured on the Potomac River in Washington, June 17, 2002. Thirty years ago, on June 17, 1972 a break-in into an office in Washington's elegant Watergate ...

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech.

MR. COSTA: Good evening. President Trump ordered a drone strike this week that killed Iran’s leading general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad, Iraq. That decision came days after pro-Iranian protesters ...

For those of you carrying around $100 bills (and really, who isn't these days?) you'll recognize this building from the back of the bill. It was built between 1732 and 1753 and was originally intended ...

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