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North Korea canceled a high-level meeting Wednesday with South Korea and threatened also to call off a historic summit planned later this month.   Former White House staffers are finding their association with President Trump a bit more complicated for post-administration prospects.  North Korea canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.  Republicans are paying little heed to Senator John McCain’s warnings about Gina Hapsel, President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA.

Lawmakers are scrambling to come up with legislation on sports gambling after the Supreme Court on Monday opened the door for states to legalize bets on sports nationwide. The precedent-shattering decision came as little surprise after the justices hinted during oral arguments in December that they were likely to strike down the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which banned sports gambling in almost every state but Nevada. Opinion polls suggest sports betting has gained acceptance, and more and more Americans are seeing the visibility of online sports betting compa

Republican senators are demanding a public apology after a White House staffer joked about GOP Sen. MORE and Senate Republicans.  Sen. first reported by The Hill on Thursday, have created a firestorm for the White House. GOP Sen.

A Trump administration official originally requested and justified a round-the-clock security detail for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) based on fears that MORE’s expected policy changes would create significant public backlash. Internal EPA emails obtained by The Hill show that Don Benton, who led the EPA’s “beachhead” team of initial political appointees after Trump’s inauguration, requested 24/7 security for “at least” Administrator MORE’s first week of work, fearing Trump’s initial actions related to the EPA were “l

MORE blasted so-called White House “leakers” as “traitors” and vowed to hunt them down, even as he denied the West Wing has a problem with leaks. “The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible,” Trump tweeted Monday afternoon. The president, however, indicated an investigation is underway into who in the White House is sharing information with the press. “With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they a

Frustrated with what he calls Democratic obstruction, Tuesday to change the rules to speed up consideration of his nominees for vacant court seats and executive posts.  It has taken an average of 84 days to confirm Trump’s nominees, far longer than for the four presidents who preceded him, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a non-partisan group that tracks confirmations. "Waiting for approval of almost 300 nominations, worst in history.

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