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Trump's denial of the news does not make it fake
Key Republicans, including Trump allies, are talking up the gravity of the President's Russia crisis amidst signs of heightened paranoia at the White House.
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Key Republicans, including Trump allies, are talking up the gravity of the President's Russia crisis amidst signs of heightened paranoia at the White House.
Trump's approach to planting gossip in New York tabloids is proving poor training for wrestling with Washington reporters pursuing issues of national importance.
Donald Trump is escalating his war on the media and on one of the government agencies that has provided sensational leaks on his presidency – the FBI.
The fallout from the assassination of Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia will remind Israel's prime minister of his own international humiliation nearly 20 years ago.
Trump's Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon declared the Trump administration is locked in an unending battle against the media and other globalist forces.
Despite its urgency, one of the Department of Homeland Security officials who briefed reporters on Tuesday insisted there would not be mass round-ups.
Maybe it will be called the Donald duck-around - a diplomatic game in which what is apparent to the entire world is not raised and a phone call that stung goes unmentioned.
Only Donald Trump could turn the concept of the organ grinder and the monkey on its head.
The man who wrote the book on narcissistic personality disorder has joined the debate over Donald Trump as his presidency grinds its gears.
In the crazy cross-currents of the first weeks of the Trump administration, it is an absence that is most striking – trust is missing in action.
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