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Last Week Tonight / YouTube screenshot John Oliver Skewers Trump’s Plan for a Border Patrol Hiring Blitz
The president wants to hire and train 500 new agents in 2018.
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Susan Walsh / AP Why Trump Invokes ‘Common Sense’
It serves as a justification for his policies and as an antidote to expert opinion.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters What's Behind the Strong Jobs Report?
The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Toyota, Mazda Announce Plans for a $1.6 Billion U.S. Plant
President Trump called it a “great investment in American manufacturing.”
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Adriano Machado / Reuters How Long Can Michel Temer Last as President of Brazil?
Lawmakers prevented the center-right leader from facing corruption charges, but the public may be less forgiving.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Mueller Plunges Across Trump's Red Line
A Wall Street Journal story claimed the investigation had moved before a grand jury, while CNN reported it was looking into potential financial crimes unrelated to the 2016 election.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Is Trump Right About Afghanistan?
The country is still dangerous nearly 17 years after the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regime.
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Yuri Cortez / AFP / Getty Leaked Transcripts Show How Foreign Leaders Manipulate Trump
Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto is smooth and conciliatory. Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull is blunt and insistent. But the two approaches both result in them getting their way with the president.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Will Brexit Reopen Old Wounds Between Ireland and Northern Ireland?
“It’ll be a disaster for everyone if that border once again becomes a closed border.”
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Michael Kappeler / Reuters Why Europe Opposes America's New Russia Sanctions
Moscow isn’t the only one that could be negatively impacted.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why the Justice Department Is Targeting Affirmative Action
Jeff Sessions follows in the risky footsteps of George W. Bush’s Justice Department.
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Reuters How Motherhood Became an Election Issue in New Zealand
The new head of the Labour Party was asked on TV whether her plan to have children would interfere with her being prime minister.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears
The chaos, legislative fumbling, and legal jeopardy should not obscure the ways that the administration is remaking federal policy in consequential ways.
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Naseem Zeitoon / Reuters Tillerson Acknowledges 'Differences' With Trump on Iran Deal
But the secretary of state said he was “comfortable” sharing his views with the president.
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Jason Lee / Reuters New U.S. Rules Would Ban Most Travel to North Korea
The decision was prompted by Otto Warmbier’s death in June.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Two Explanations for Trump's Meddling in the Russia Investigation
Either he’s orchestrating a cover up, or foolishly interfering because he’s convinced of his own innocence.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Venezuelan Authorities Seize 2 Opposition Leaders
Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma were taken away overnight.
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KCNA / Reuters Video Shows Possible Failure of North Korean ICBM Test
Footage from a Japanese broadcaster suggests the nation’s missile program may be slightly less advanced than it claims.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Army Medic
71-year-old James McCloughan is the award’s first recipient under the Trump administration.
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Pierre Albouy / Reuters L.A. to Host the 2028 Summer Olympics
The announcement clears the way for Paris to host the Summer Games in 2024.
