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Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, exits federal court in New York City on Nov. 29, 2018, after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate project in Moscow that was active during the 2016 presidential campaign.

BuzzFeed’s Michael Cohen story, if true, looks to be the most damning to date for Trump

July 1, 2019 at 1:24 a.m.

Predicting President Donald Trump's imminent demise has made fools of people since the moment he launched his presidential campaign. But the latest blockbuster story about the Russia investigation is different....

Afghan children play on the remains of an old destroyed Soviet Union tank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in 2012. Soviet troops first occupied Afghanistan in December of 1979. After a decade of fighting, which killed more than a million Afghans and 13,000 Soviet soldiers, they pulled out, leaving behind a civil war that ultimately brought the Taliban to power.

No, the Soviet Union did not invade Afghanistan because terrorists were crossing the border into Russia

August 22, 2019 at 10:13 a.m.

Afghan officials on Thursday denounced President Trump's praise of the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of their country, which he described this week as a fight against terrorism, breaking with...

President Donald Trump, center, boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base July 24, 2018, in Maryland. Trump has removed security clearance for people who made "politicized statements."

The White House’s slippery slope on purging its critics’ security clearances

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Now we know why President Donald Trump complained about former intelligence officials being paid as cable analysts. On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump was looking...

Sen. Kamala Harris, shown in Panorama City, Calif., on May 31, 2018, reportedly hasn't ruled out a 2020 presidential run.

Ranked: The top 15 possible Democratic presidential candidates for 2020

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

We're now just four months, practically speaking, from the effective launch of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season. As soon as the 2018 midterm election is in the books —...

Time magazine’s major mistake on the crying-girl cover

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

There are examples of children separated from parents who immigrated illegally playing out nationwide. And well-meaning people across the political spectrum have taken a stand and forced change. Unfortunately, they...

In this March 22, 2017, file photo, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting in Seattle.

Starbucks exec Howard Schultz sure sounds like a 2020 presidential candidate

June 2, 2018 at 8:16 a.m.

Since announcing in December that he would step down as Starbucks chief executive, there has been speculation that Howard Schultz is eyeing a run for president in 2020. A couple...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves the State Department in Washington on Aug. 22, 2017, after discussing the war in Afghanistan.

Tillerson totally undercut Trump’s rhetoric on Afghanistan

August 22, 2019 at 12:35 a.m.

President Donald Trump assured us Monday night — repeatedly — that the United States will win the war in Afghanistan. But his secretary of state would apparently like to set...

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017.

Trump contradicts his son’s emails, suggests Russia preferred Hillary Clinton

August 22, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump's son released emails in which he was told that the Russian government was working to elect Trump — something U.S. intelligence services long ago concluded....

Trump didn’t avoid paying income taxes for 18 years, after all

August 21, 2019 at 10:34 p.m.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a seemingly big scoop on Tuesday night: A previously unreleased tax return from President Donald Trump. In the end -- as Maddow acknowledged repeatedly -- the...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘SNL’ makes fun of Trump’s tweets, and Trump immediately tweets his disapproval

June 8, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.

There's an emerging theory that Donald Trump distracts us all with his tweets. But on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, it was Trump getting distracted by his own tweets. In...

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