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- Melania Trump plans to address a cyberbullying summit in Maryland next week.
- In the war of words between Donald J. Trump and his former 'Apprentice' co-star, which prevaricating reality TV veteran do you believe?
- Trump has known about the meddling since his election but it wasn’t until this past July 27 that he used a meeting of his most senior national security advisers to discuss any effort to protect the electoral process.
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- Examples of media bias, whether in the way stories are covered, or ignored, are legion, says Cal Thomas.
- Even the most partisan of us have to give some grudging respect for the sheer grit that Sarah Huckabee Sanders brings to the podium during White House press briefings.
- Donald Trump lies about two things, says Robert B. Reich: facts and people who reveal his lies.
- I cannot let this work week end without voicing outrage over CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins being barred from a White House press event Wednesday. The more I think about it, the angrier I get — especially Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine lecturing her.
- Cher, composer Phillip Glass, Reba McEntire and jazz legend Wayne Shorter have been announced as this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.
- I understand Trump’s behavior. What I don’t understand, however, is some of my fellow Americans, who would never accept such treasonous behavior from any other politician, never mind a president.
- White House reporters need to be more unified in the effort to get the Trump administration to answer tough questions.
- President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the press as "the enemy of the American people," offered condolences and pledged Friday to fight violence in America after the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette office in Annapolis.
- Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said he was bring a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging an order designed to end the separation of immigrant families but which Frosh says will create new problems.
- Don't be surprised if other world leaders decide it's in their interest to behave antagonistically toward America now that Trump has decided it's in his interest to do so to them.
- President Trump said he may pardon deceased boxing great Muhammad Ali.
- President Trump says Canadians burned the White House and generations of Fort McHenry volunteers quietly wept.
- Philadelphia Eagles get bounced from the White House by a president who is the champion of shamelessness.
- A good manager balances the good and bad in everyone and every situation. Public humiliation, as President Trump demonstrates frequently with the Justice Department, the FBI, and members of his cabinet, earn him disloyalty, not loyalty.
- There has been another defection from the stable of White House legal eagles. Ty Cobb is not the first, and I suspect not the last, of Mr. Trump’s inner circle to vacate his position. It leaves one to wonder why so many of Trump's close advisers are bailing, like rats deserting a sinking ship.
- Michelle Wolf isn't the problem, the real issue is how the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner became about celebrities and the D.C. power elite.
- As John Bolton took up his new role as national security adviser last month, a tingle rippled up the spine of those of us in Washington who like to see a good fight.
- Melania Trump's performance at Tuesday's state dinner gave media outlets a chance to contrast her qualities with those of her husband.
- On March 30, 94-year-old Anna Chennault died. What history will remember her for is the pivotal role she played in Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential victory — a role that, if it had been widely known at the time, might have deprived Nixon of the White House.
- President Donald Trump's first year was bad. He's doing everything possible to make his second worse.
- In 1981, President Ronald Reagan, above, was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded were White House
- John Bolton will be a destabilizing force as President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser.
- To Donald Trump, Robert Mueller is just another opponent to be trashed and discarded, says Jules Witcover.
- Hours before calling Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to tell him he was being fired from his position, Trump publicly announced Tillerson’s firing in a tweet. With that tweet, once again, Trump demonstrated two things: He has no loyalty to those who serve in his administration and he has no class.
- Warren Olney, host and executive producer of To the Point, recalls a summer evening in 1954, when he and a high school classmate walked up to the White House steel fence, unzipped their pants, and violated the perimeter. The fact that such a crime is impossible today is not progress.
- But the former president wasn't right the first time.
- On the heels of the resignation of Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, President Donald Trump has responded with the favorite theme song of his own greatness, and how others clamor to be part of it.
- There is nothing amusing about the denigrating remarks President Trump makes about members of the press and other politicians at his rallies. While supporters and some analysts dismiss it as the president’s “shtick” or just Trump being Trump, White House correspondent April Ryan.
- No president in history has been in more desperate need of a moderating influence than Donald Trump. His presidency is threatened by his unwillingness to fully embrace the long-established White House tradition of the presidential right-hand man.
- Even the most gullible listeners in Congress should know by now that the president's word can't be trusted, says Jules Witcover.
- Trump insists there's no chaos in White House amid record chaos.
- The president doesn't have to run toward an active shooter to demonstrate his bravery, he has to stand up to the NRA.
- If schools are safer with armed teachers, should the White House have all its secretaries, cooks, and others packing heat, too?
- Witcover: Imagine what serious members of Congress might think of Mr. Trump's comparisons of school shootings with aircraft hijackings, and his idea to arm teachers with the concealed carrying of federal air marshals.
- President Donald Trump wants a military parade, and he's making the Pentagon follow through. It's not unprecedented, but it's still not a tradition we should start. Bragging about military might is not what America is about.
- Democrats show no interest in holding the Obama administration accountable for influencing Russia probe.
- Legislation to temporarily fund the federal government and avert a shutdown passed in the House Thursday evening, though its prospects remain uncertain in the Senate.
- Congress must act quickly to provide protection for young immigrants.
- It's time the media call Donald Trump's behavior what it is rather than try to normalize it through euphemisms, says Robert B. Reich.
- Trump had an interesting week to say the least, from oil drilling off the coasts to his war on the press to his statements on "s***hole" countries.
- One does not need to criticize President Donald Trump. He criticizes himself every time he opens his mouth.
- There is a desperate need in the Trump administration to find a more deft and conciliatory spokesman than the president himself, says Jules Witcover.
- After more than a week of virtually non-stop talk on cable TV and endless headlines about Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” book, it seems fair to ask: What do we really know to be true about President Trump and his White House that we didn’t know before?
- President Donald Trump will host congressional leaders at Camp David this weekend to map out a legislative strategy as Republicans weigh their priorities in what is certain to be a contentious midterm election year.
- President Donald J. Trump remains deeply unpopular in Maryland, but his tumultuous first year in the White House left an unmistakable imprint on state politics.
- Robert Mueller isn't running out of gas in his investigation, says Bill Press; he's just getting into high gear.