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The Nixon tattoo on his back looks more expensive than the transplanted hair on his head. His fashion sense, about which he is outspoken and fastidious, seems ripped from Gilded Age cartoons about predatory industrial fat cats. He enjoys body-building, marijuana, swinging and martinis, which he sometimes blames for his vulgar sallies on social media […]

It was supposed to look effortless, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gliding to victory in this year’s federal election. But the roughly 33.5% of seats that she won — according to exit polls — was less than anticipated, even though she secured her conservative party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), a fourth term in office. More laborious […]

President Trump’s supporters in the media came out in full force this weekend, supporting the President after he called for the firing of NFL players who have chosen to raise awareness of racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. “Don’t give me this crap that you want to support reform and stand up against […]

Megyn Kelly is a talented, experienced television anchor. She is also an arrestingly glamorous presence on air. And coming off a year of highly personal confrontations with Donald Trump, she is certainly a well-known name to most Americans. What she is not, however, is Oprah. For reasons perhaps only understood by the management of NBC […]

A gunman opened fire at a church in Antioch, Tennessee, on Sunday, killing one person and wounding six others, according to a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. An eighth victim was “pistol whipped,” police said. “This is a mass casualty situation,” the Nashville Fire Department said in a tweet. “All of the wounded […]

Hillary Clinton called out the Trump administration Sunday for its response to the devastation in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. “President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens,” Clinton said in a Sunday morning tweet, referring to the Department of Defense, […]

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday that he does not currently support the Senate GOP’s latest bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, though he emphasized that he’s working with the sponsors of the bill in order to get to a “yes.” “Right now, they don’t have my vote, and I don’t think they have […]

Angela Merkel has won a fourth term as German Chancellor, but with her party’s lead in parliament cut and the country facing a surge in support for the far right. Exit polls predicted the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) would become the third-largest party in the national parliament, the Bundestag, as German voters delivered a […]

The East Coast is bracing for a possible direct hit from Hurricane Maria, days after the storm caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean. North Carolina may bear the worst of the storm, as current forecasts show Maria brushing its coast Wednesday morning. Although it’s not currently predicted to make landfall along the coast, Maria is […]

ESPN abandoned its usual pregame chatter in favor of a long and heavy conversation about unity, politics and President Trump. Fox and CBS said they would broadcast the national anthem live — a notable shift away from the usual practice. Make no mistake: Sports TV became political on Sunday in a whole new way. It […]

Stephen Bannon has his eyes on Senate races in Alabama and Arizona. With a health care vote looming, Sen. Lisa Murkowski is spending not-so-quiet weekends in Alaska. And President Trump’s tax reform campaign may face competition for headlines. It’s all part of this week’s “Inside Politics” forecast, where you get tomorrow’s headlines today. 1) Tax […]

Rather than taking a knee, most NFL players opted for a show of unity Sunday, locking arms ahead of their games amid criticism from President Trump who slammed players opting to protest during the national anthem. Still, plenty opted to kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” with the Baltimore Ravens’ Terrell Suggs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ […]

President Trump this weekend attacked the National Football League and its players who protest during the national anthem. Many of the league’s owners, executives and team presidents fired back, after the league’s commissioner issued a statement on Saturday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create […]

With President Trump taking aim at the NFL and its players who protest during the national anthem, the league is broadcasting a message of unity. The NFL is dusting off a one-minute ad that it produced for the Super Bowl earlier this year. It was originally made to “demonstrate the power of football to bring […]

Facebook continues to resist calls for public disclosure of the Russia-linked ads that targeted American voters last year. But Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, is still pushing. “We want to try to find a way,” he said, “to make some of those ads and other information public.” Facebook provided […]

Germans are voting to choose a government, and a Chancellor, for the next four years. The election underway in the EU’s economic powerhouse could see incumbent Angela Merkel from the Christian Democratic Union win a fourth term in office — or be ousted by her main rival Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party. Merkel […]

President Donald Trump renewed his criticism Sunday of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem, slamming the league’s ratings and saying players should be fired or suspended for such protests. “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. […]

1. Germany’s election: Angela Merkel is expected to win a fourth term as German Chancellor. She goes against Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party in Sunday’s election. Merkel, 63, has led the European Union’s largest economy for more than 11 years. Germans will vote to for seats in the Bundestag, the country’s parliament. Whichever […]

Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday morning that it would be “very difficult for me to envision a scenario” where she would vote for Republicans’ latest plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the Maine Republican said she wanted to wait for a Congressional Budget Office score of the Graham-Cassidy bill before rendering a final decision. […]

Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday morning that it would be “very difficult for me to imagine a scenario” where she would vote for Republicans’ latest plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the Maine Republican said she wanted to wait for a Congressional Budget Office score of the Graham-Cassidy bill before rendering a final decision. […]

President Donald Trump came under harsh criticism Saturday from the NFL and some of the NBA’s top players after he blasted prominent athletes for kneeling during the national anthem and refusing to come to the White House, putting himself in the center of a controversy with significant racial and cultural undertones. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell […]

Republicans’ latest efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are hanging on by a thread, and the party is waiting for GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to make her next move. Collins will appear Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union,” where she’ll discuss her latest thoughts on Graham-Cassidy, the GOP’s last-ditch […]

There are fresh signs the Republican Party’s brand is in trouble. Fewer than three in 10 Americans — 29% — hold a favorable view of the Republican Party according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. That is down 13 percentage points from March and is the lowest mark for the GOP since CNN […]

A lot has changed for Preet Bharara since March 11. “I’m not a different guy. I had a different job” Bharara, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York and a CNN contributor, told CNN’s Bill Weir. “There’s a difference in how you’re supposed to input yourself when you’re acting on behalf […]

Legendary musician Stevie Wonder took a knee at a New York music festival, seemingly showing solidarity with NFL players criticized by President Donald Trump hours earlier. “Tonight, I’m taking a knee for America; but not just one knee, I’m taking both knees,” he said on stage Saturday before his performance at the Global Citizens Festival. […]