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The White House fired back at former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush on Saturday, attacking their legacies after both Bushes expressed their displeasure with President Trump in a new book. "The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change - instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement to The Hill.

President Trump said shortly before landing in Japan Sunday that he expects to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his 12-day Asia Trip.  Trump told a gaggle of reporters during his flight to Japan that the two are expecting to meet to discuss North Korea. “I think it’s expected we’ll meet with Putin, yeah.

Kentucky State Police have arrested a man accused of assaulting Sen. MORE (R-Ky.) at his home in Bowling Green, the senator's office confirmed on Saturday.  "Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault," Kelsey Cooper, a spokeswoman for Paul, said in a statement. "The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police.

President Trump landed in Japan Sunday morning to kick off the first leg of his 12-day trip to Asia. Trump held a surprise press gaggle with reporters during the flight from Hawaii, telling them that he was planning on meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the trip, according to a pool report. Trump and Putin met for the first time in July at the G-20 summit in Hamburg Germany. This second meeting would come just days after the first indictments were handed down against Trump campaign staffers in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference. Former

WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, a vocal faction of Republicans have insisted that America’s civilian criminal justice system is the wrong venue for handling terrorism suspects. And for a moment last week, it looked as if President Trump might vindicate their view by transferring the suspect in the New York truck attack to military custody at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Instead, the man, Sayfullo Saipov, was interrogated and charged in the civilian system.

It was a typical night in Staci Burns’s house outside Fort Wayne, Ind. She was cooking dinner while her 3-year-old son, Isaac, watched videos on the YouTube Kids app on an iPad. Suddenly he cried out, “Mommy, the monster scares me!” When Ms. Burns walked over, Isaac was watching a video featuring crude renderings of the characters from “PAW Patrol,” a Nickelodeon show that is popular among preschoolers, screaming in a car.

It was a typical night in Staci Burns’s house outside Fort Wayne, Ind. She was cooking dinner while her 3-year-old son, Isaac, watched videos on the YouTube Kids app on an iPad. Suddenly he cried out, “Mommy, the monster scares me!” When Ms. Burns walked over, Isaac was watching a video featuring crude renderings of the characters from “PAW Patrol,” a Nickelodeon show that is popular among preschoolers, screaming in a car.

WASHINGTON — The new Republican tax proposal is arguably the pinnacle of Paul D. Ryan’s legislative career, the culmination of years spent in the wonky trenches of conservative think tanks and esoteric congressional budget and tax debates. It could be a legacy-defining achievement for Mr. Ryan, the self-proclaimed “policy guy” who only reluctantly took the helm of the House in 2015 and found himself in that most political of positions as speaker.

There are far easier things to do than find an international ape smuggler. For six months I searched for illicit dealers selling gorillas, orangutans, bonobos or chimps. Thousands have been lost in an underground business that makes millions of dollars off endangered animals and caters to rich pet collectors and unscrupulous zoos.

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The sting began, as so many things do these days, on social media. Daniel Stiles, a self-styled ape trafficking detective in Kenya, had been scouring Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp for weeks, looking for pictures of gorillas, chimps or orangutans. He was hoping to chip away at an illicit global trade that has captured or killed tens of thousands of apes and pushed some endangered species to the brink of extinction. “The way they do business,” he said of ape traffickers, “makes the Mafia look like amateurs.” After hundreds of searches, Mr.