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US Ambassador to Canada Kelly Knight Craft stands during her swearing in ceremony on the White House grounds, September 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 23, 2019, 2:27 am
Trump names Kelly Craft to succeed Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN
Current envoy to Canada will have to contend with pressing issues from Afghanistan to Venezuela; her predecessor, beloved by Israel, set to address AIPAC conference next month
By Zeke Miller and Matthew Lee
US President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, on February 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
February 15, 2019, 7:22 pm
Warning of ‘invasion,’ Trump declares national emergency to build Mexico wall
Democrats to challenge move in court as US president vows to divert billions to stop illegal immigration
By Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller
In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, speaks at The Economic Club of Washington's Milestone Celebration in Washington. Bezos says the National Enquirer is threatening to publish nude photographs of him unless his private investigators back off the tabloid that detailed the billionaire’s extramarital affair (AP Photo/Cliff Owen,)
February 8, 2019, 6:32 am
Bezos says Enquirer tried to extort him with threat to publish revealing pics
Tabloid reportedly warned it would publish a ‘below the belt selfie,’ unless Amazon boss stopped investigating how it obtained his private exchanges with his mistress
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Zeke Miller
US President Donald Trump, left, meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as national security adviser John Bolton, right, watches. May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
January 21, 2019, 10:52 am
Bolton’s test: Massaging Trump tweets into foreign policy
Delayed US withdrawal from Syria highlights national security adviser’s ability to redraft executive policy without drawing fire from president
By Zeke Miller
US President Donald Trump speaks during the Missile Defense Review announcement at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on January 17, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
January 19, 2019, 8:47 am
Trump to make ‘major announcement’ on shutdown, border
US government has been shuttered for 4 weeks over president’s insistence the federal budget include billions for a wall separating the US from Mexico
By Jill Colvin, LISA MASCARO, Zeke Miller and Catherine Lucey
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. At right are Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Adviser John Bolton and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 5, 2019, 4:09 am
Pompeo and Bolton head to Mideast amid tension over Syria pullout
We’re not abandoning the region, says State Department official; planned withdrawal, which led to Mattis resignation, will dominate Trump officials’ agenda on trip
By Matthew Lee and Zeke Miller
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaks during a change of command ceremony at the US Southern Command headquarters on November 26, 2018, in Doral, Florida. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
December 22, 2018, 4:42 pm
Trump’s Syria pullout was last straw for Mattis; others may quit Pentagon
‘Core belief’ for Mattis is that American strength is ‘inextricably linked’ with the nation’s alliances — a position at odds with the president’s ‘America First’ policy
By Zeke Miller and Lolita Baldor
The Capitol is seen at day's end as the Senate works on a House-passed bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
December 22, 2018, 7:46 am
US government partially shuts down in fight over Trump’s Mexican border wall
As Democrats refuse to meet president’s demand of $5 billion for border project, some federal employees are furloughed while others will work unpaid in days before Christmas
By LISA MASCARO, Matthew Daly and Zeke Miller
Vice President Mike Pence, second from right, walks with incoming White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, center, and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, second from left, after meetings to pass a bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, on Capitol Hill, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
December 22, 2018, 1:24 am
Trump, Democrats dig in as government heads for shutdown
Inability to resolve conflict would disrupt government operations and leave federal workers furloughed or forced to work without pay just days before Christmas
By LISA MASCARO, Matthew Daly and Zeke Miller
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. From left are Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
December 21, 2018, 7:03 pm
As advisers leave, Trump’s guardrails come off
Mattis resignation marks the end of the ‘axis of adults,’ senior advisers who worked to guide the president and curb his most disruptive impulses
By Julie Pace and Zeke Miller
In this file photo taken on October 1, 2018 US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer speaks next to US President Donald Trump from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim WATSON / AFP)
December 11, 2018, 3:58 am
Trump administration scrambling to find new chief of staff
Mick Mulvaney, Chris Christie said to be in running to replace John Kelly, though many candidates worry about working for mercurial president who courts chaos
By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire
In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
December 10, 2018, 5:03 am
Pence aide out of running to be Trump’s next chief of staff
More names emerge as possible contenders for the crucial job, after Nick Ayers begs off
By Zeke Miller
US President Donald Trump listens to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
December 8, 2018, 11:35 pm
Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year’s end
US president announces he’ll soon name successor to ex-Marine general; Pence’s chief of staff considered the top choice for job
By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin
US President Donald Trump acknowledges supporters before speaking at a campaign rally, Monday, November 5, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
November 6, 2018, 6:57 am
With political future on line, Trump makes last midterm push
US president caps off contentious campaign, saying of rivals, ‘I do eventually want to unite, but I’m driving them crazy’
By Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller
US President Donald Trump arrives for a rally at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, November 5, 2018, in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
November 6, 2018, 4:08 am
Trump warns of ‘illegal voting’ as midterm campaigns come to an end
‘In a sense, I am on the ticket,’ says US president on last day of tense campaign to retain control of both houses of Congress
By Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller
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