ArticleTrump picks Bill Pulte as new national intel­li­gence chief

WASHINGTON Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day he has chosen fed­eral hous­ing reg­u­lator Bill Pulte, who has served as a polit­ical attack dog tar­get­ing Trump’s per­ceived enemies, to serve as act­ing dir­ector of national...

ArticleFor­get polls. Vote for best can­did­ate

For voters feel­ing frus­trated and unin­spired ahead of Cali­for­nia’s June 2 primary elec­tion: You’re not alone. The gov­ernor’s race is, to put it mildly, a hot mess. The state’s polit­ical estab­lish­ment and power brokers have twice closed ranks...

ArticleFormer Col­or­ado elec­tions clerk out of prison

DENVER — Tina Peters, the former clerk con­victed of par­ti­cip­at­ing in a scheme to chase elec­tion con­spir­acy the­or­ies pro­mul­gated by Pres­id­ent Trump, was released from prison Monday after the pres­id­ent suc­cess­fully pres­sured...

ArticlePow­ell warns against polit­ical pres­sure on Fed and courts

BOSTON — Former Fed­eral Reserve Chair Jerome H. Pow­ell used one of his first major pub­lic appear­ances since leav­ing office to defend inde­pend­ent insti­tu­tions while accept­ing an award Sunday hon­or­ing his efforts to pre­serve the cent­ral...

ArticleRewrit­ing the truth in mem­oir

JILL Biden’s book is not even out yet and she’s already try­ing to get it dis­played on both the fic­tion and the non-fic­tion shelves. From her hus­band’s men­tal decline to the par­don­ing of her son, the former first lady moved from the his­tor­ical...

ArticleLegal battle intens­i­fies over ‘8647’ use after rul­ing

A legal fight is brew­ing as Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion goes bey­ond former FBI Dir­ector James Comey in its effort to clamp down on the term “8647.” A fed­eral judge on June 1 gran­ted the Wash­ing­ton, DC, chapter of the Amer­ican...

ArticleDANA WHITE “I WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL EVERY TIME I GET OUT OF BED.”

ArticleEx-bor­der chief pushes for more deport­a­tions

Greg Bovino, a former top U.S. Bor­der Patrol offi­cial who became the face of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s con­tro­ver­sial immig­ra­tion enforce­ment surge, cri­ti­cized mem­bers of Trump’s inner circle for “push­ing to dial back” on mass...