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The White House and first lady are standing by President Trump after he published a series of tweets this morning disparaging cable news hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders spent much of the afternoon's press briefing defending Trump's actions. "I think that the president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day," she said. She continued, "The pr

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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — A surge of Republican lawmakers denounced President Trump Thursday for his attacks on a prominent woman in the media, signaling a breaking point of sorts for a party weary of the president’s boorish behavior on social media. Evidently offended by comments made by Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s program “Morning Joe,” Trump fired off a pair of tweets that questioned her intelligence, and suggested that she’d had plastic surgery.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Instead of coming together, the elected officials President Trump needs for help were sprinting away from him Thursday.   President Trump said Brzezinski’s face was “bleeding.” But a photo taken of her that night appears to cast doubt on his statement.   NAMES At a time when millions of Americans are worried about losing health insurance, the president managed to focus the country’s attention on a minor side effect of elective plastic surgery.

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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories capital source A legislative committee is considering a bill to allow towns to prohibit bans on clotheslines, as a means of reducing domestic energy use.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Instead of coming together, the elected officials President Trump needs for help were sprinting away from him Thursday.   President Trump said Brzezinski’s face was “bleeding.” But a photo taken of her that night appears to cast doubt on his statement.   NAMES At a time when millions of Americans are worried about losing health insurance, the president managed to focus the country’s attention on a minor side effect of elective plastic surgery.

Posted at 7:37 pm on June 28, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released another of their undercover videos in which a CNN producer is quoted on the Russia probe investigation as saying, “it’s mostly bullsh** right now.” And he goes on to say that Jeff Zucker, head of CNN, is pushing Russia because it is a perceived ratings draw. Really?

Posted at 8:30 pm on June 28, 2017 by streiff Late Monday evening, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step of warning Syria’s Assad that they knew he was planning a chemical strike and that he should best think two or three times before going ahead with it.

Posted at 9:00 pm on June 28, 2017 by streiff It has become sort of a joke that no one in Washington, D.C. will admit to having met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak despite documentary evidence. While the anti-Trumpers like to harp on Jeff Sessions, there are others. For instance, Nancy Pelosi. Now we have another.