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Beltway Confidential

The good and the bad of Trump’s ‘smart’ missile Russia tweet

Tom Rogan · April 11, 2018 4:18 pm

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right, listen as President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House.

National Security

The Pentagon on Trump’s ‘nice and new and smart’ Syria threat: Go ask the White House

Jamie McIntyre, Kyle Feldscher · April 11, 2018 3:40 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan, a top conservative lawmaker, disputed that there is any movement inside the Freedom Caucus to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan or seek a change in leadership. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan suggests Paul Ryan is stepping down because tax reform was his ‘papal conversion’

Anna Giaritelli · April 11, 2018 2:02 pm

President Trump and Rod Rosenstein.

Trump signals Rod Rosenstein is on the outs as the ‘most conflicted of all’

Kyle Feldscher · April 11, 2018 1:41 pm

In this March 31, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the National Association of Manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Slim majorities of Americans favor independent investigations into Trumpâs relationship with the Russian government and possible attempts by Russia to influence last yearâs election according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Trump: Relations with Russia at all-time low, worse than Cold War

Katelyn Caralle · April 11, 2018 11:59 am

President Donald Trump listens to a question during a town hall with business leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

National Security

Trump warns Russia: Missiles ‘will be coming’ after Syria’s chemical attack

Katelyn Caralle · April 11, 2018 11:18 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders in the State Department Library on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Carlos G. Muniz, a former top aide to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi involved in her officeâs decision not to pursue legal action against Trump University has been chosen to serve as the top lawyer at the Education Department.

Trump hits New York Times for ‘another phony story’

Katelyn Caralle · April 11, 2018 11:07 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California praised Scalia as a pioneer on the bench. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats react to Paul Ryan’s retirement: ‘First casualty of the 2018 midterm election’

Katelyn Caralle · April 11, 2018 10:35 am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Washington Secrets

Pew: Facebook has no competition, 68% use it versus Instagram, 35%, Twitter, 24%

Paul Bedard · April 10, 2018 8:38 pm

The goal of the accounts is to galvanize support against moves by the Trump administration to hamper science. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Twitter follows Facebook, endorses Honest Ads Act

Kelly Cohen · April 10, 2018 5:37 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.

Trump after FBI raid on his lawyer’s office: ‘Attorney-client privilege is dead’

Katelyn Caralle · April 10, 2018 11:29 am

Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower, in New York, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016.

Flashback: Trump’s lawyer whose office was raided by the FBI mocked Hillary Clinton about prison

Katie Leach · April 9, 2018 11:28 pm