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Trump relatively quiet on opioid crisis, despite campaign vows

9 years 2 months ago
President Donald Trump has visited West Virginia -- one of the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis -- twice in the last two weeks. Although his presidential commission on opioids urged him Monday to declare the epidemic a public health emergency, Trump has been relatively quiet on the issue.

Clinton's Lewinsky scandal underlines grand jury's threat to Trump

9 years 2 months ago
When it comes to shocking developments in the winding probe into President Donald Trump's campaign, the 2016 election, the Russians, hacking, allegations of collusion, and who-knows-what-else, the revelation on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller had issued grand jury subpoenas somehow managed to feel like an anticlimax.

In Alabama, a race to support Trump and stand up to other Republicans in Washington

9 years 2 months ago
On a scorching summer day in the shade of a bridge that runs over the river here in Gadsden, Alabama, Republican Rep. Mo Brooks pressed the flesh and made his case to about two dozen voters that he was the candidate who could "drain the swamp" in Washington, DC, and that one of his opponents in the Senate primary, Sen. Luther Strange, was being fueled by the Washington establishment.

Russia's Kislyak: 'No secrets' in talks with Flynn

9 years 2 months ago
Russia's former ambassador to the United States said Saturday that his conversations with Michael Flynn -- who was forced to resign as US national security adviser amid a controversy over those talks -- were only about "simple things" with "no secrets."

Trump asserts support for McMaster

9 years 2 months ago
President Donald Trump issued a statement of support Friday evening for national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who has come under fire from conservative media outlets this week.
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