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Ivanka Trump's South Korea trip fuels White House tension

8 years 8 months ago
She's a policy adviser bearing sensitive new details on sanctions to the South Koreans. She's a loyal family member who won't entertain questions about her father's purported infidelities. And she's a US figurehead bearing goodwill at an international sporting event.

Analysis: The NRA's very Trumpy playbook

8 years 8 months ago
In June of 2017, the National Rifle Association posted a video online featuring the conservative commentator Dana Loesch. Speaking directly to the camera, Loesch, who had joined the group as a national spokeswoman months earlier, issued a breathless call to arms.

Why the 'Fix NICS' gun proposal is not universal background checks

8 years 8 months ago
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the chamber, have differing opinions on how to to address gun control laws and improve America's background checks system in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.

In the Senate, little sense of change on guns

8 years 8 months ago
The nation is reeling after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida. But if there is a feeling that something is about to change on gun control in the rest of the country, it's not yet palpable on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Scalise, who was shot last summer, meets with Parkland students

8 years 8 months ago
Rep. Steve Scalise, the number three House Republican leader, who was seriously wounded by a gunman targeting a GOP congressional baseball team practice last summer, met with high school students from Parkland, Florida, on Monday afternoon to share their experiences and talk about coping after being attacked.

US focusing on Mali in hunt for Niger ambush attackers

8 years 8 months ago
US military and intelligence officials believe that the ISIS fighters that ambushed and killed four US troops in Niger last October fled back across the border into Mali and have remained there since, according to an administration official directly familiar with the latest assessment.
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