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Posted at 9:10 pm on July 28, 2017 by streiff Today President Trump gave chief of staff Reince Priebus the heave-ho and replaced him with Homeland Security secretary, and retired USMC general, John Kelly. How does this play out. Since I have access to the front page, I’ll inflict my hot take on what happened, what it means, and where it goes. 1. Priebus was always a ‘dead man walking.’ He was not a Trump supporter in the beginning. His roots were in the GOP establishment. His presence in the White House can be seen as a genesis of a lot of the problems.

Posted at 10:03 pm on July 28, 2017 by Susan Wright This is the insanity of electing a reality TV host as president. You don’t get sound, reasoned government. You get a circus act.

Reince Priebus on Friday called the idea that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the election a "joke" during an interview leaving his post as White House chief of staff. "The collusion story is a joke.

Former Speaker John Kelly as White House chief of staff on Friday, saying he predicts the White House will benefit from from the retired four-star Marine general. "I predict the White House will become more orderly and disciplined – with clear lines of authority, serious planning and strong teamwork," Gingrich wrote in a Fox News op-ed. "The person who may benefit most from this change is President Trump.

President Trump reportedly offered the White House chief of staff position to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly multiple times before eventually appointing him to the post on Friday. Trump had first offered the post occupied by Reince Priebus to Kelly in mid-May, according to The Washington Post, but the general reportedly decline

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TEHRAN — United States House of Representatives approved a bill that would impose additional sanctions against the country, and Russia and North Korea. Such tests of what are essentially carrier rockets are not prohibited under the landmark 2015

A federal court judge refused on Friday to drop a lawsuit against two psychologists who helped devise the C.I.A.’s interrogation program after the Sept.

A 73-year-old man was severely burned on Friday after he opened an oatmeal container that had been left at a home in Queens and it exploded, the police said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, had second- and third-degree burns to 80 percent of his torso and legs and was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where he was in critical condition, Robert K.