Politics

Donald Trump promotes himself as a man divorced from party ideology, a president-elect just as open-minded to input from Al Gore as from Newt Gingrich. But with his Cabinet nearly complete, he has chosen one of the most consistently conservative domestic policy teams in modern […]

Donald Trump called Josh Earnest “a foolish guy” Thursday after the White House press secretary said the president-elect should stop attacking U.S. intelligence agencies for their conclusion that Russia tried to help Trump win the election. The back-and-forth reflected rising tension between the incoming and […]

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown, rallying a room of scientists Wednesday with his most heated rhetoric yet on the topic, suggested California would defy the federal government should President-elect Donald Trump impede the state’s efforts to thwart climate change. “We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got […]

JUDY WOODRUFF: President-elect Trump has now named nearly all of his picks to serve in his Cabinet, but some are not without their controversies. Here to discuss some of those choices, and more, is Sean Spicer. He’s the chief strategist and communications director for the […]

President of the Lebanese Republic, General Michel Aoun, on Thursday confirmed that the renewed Arab and international trust in Lebanon that started with the presidential election formed an essential incentive to begin a new trend of change in favor of treating the economic, social and […]

The fight for Aleppo is over. Bombardment by Syrian and Russian jets and deadly ground operations brought an end to the siege; thousands of civilians are fleeing amid reports of mass killings by government forces and allies. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports and […]

President Bill Clinton preferred to read his daily intelligence briefing in paper form. George W. Bush insisted on a daily in-person briefing. President Obama consumes his digitally, on a custom tablet. Presidents have different styles when it comes to the briefing, or the President’s Daily […]

A delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement met with Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh on Wednesday as part of a tour with various political parties to discuss the need to devise a new electoral law ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The delegation comprised […]

Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, met on Wednesday at Dar al-Fatwa with the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon, Nazih al-Najjari, who expressed his country’s commitment to the restoration of security and stability and to the resumption of institutional work in Lebanon. “It is […]