David M. Drucker writing at the Washington Examiner reports that House Speaker Paul Ryan was not consulted on the discussion Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon had with lawmakers not to primary House Republicans as he has targeted establishment GOP members of the Senate:
Alex Isenstadt and Elena Schneider writing at Politico report that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon and House Republicans met on Friday to develop a plan to work together:
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury is investigating a prominent Democratic lobbyist and a former GOP congressman for their involvement in an influence campaign on behalf of Ukrainian interests tied to Paul Manafort, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Robert Mercer, the hedge fund titan who financed the nationalist movement that elected President Trump, stepped down from the helm of his investment firm amid intense criticism. But that doesn’t mean he’s finished with politics. Mercer is limiting his duties to research at the firm partly to allow him to increase his political involvement unencumbered by his business responsibilities, said a person familiar with the matter.
In a private meeting at the White House on Thursday, President Trump and GOP senators agreed not to include a DACA amnesty deal in the end-of-year ominibus spending bill.
Mercer said in a statement to his colleagues that recent press reports have falsely depicted him as a “white supremacist” and he has decided to speak up to correct the record, clarifying his political views and his relationship with Breitbart’s executive chairman Steve Bannon.
While much of the world is focused on the ballistic missile and nuclear threat from North Korea, the U.S. military in the Pacific region is also concentrating on another potential foe: China.
This article originally appeared in Bloomberg: A “New Era” in President Xi Jinping’s China risks setting off alarm bells in the U.S. and Europe. The ruling Communist Party committed to the more assertive policy during a twice-a-decade reshuffle that ended last week,
Playboy Enterprises quickly distanced itself from Ratner as his attorney denied the allegations and late Wednesday Warner Bros. severed ties with the director, whose expired first-look deal with the studio will not be renewed.
New York Times reporter Ruth La Ferla penned a profile of Breitbart News’s fashion critic — and immigration reporter — John Binder for the paper’s style section. Yes, you read that correctly.
In the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and his far-right site Breitbart are declaring a new phase of war on the entertainment industry they love to hate.
From The Hill: Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-Ariz.) abrupt retirement announcement last week means that all eyes are now on Nevada’s Senate primary, the next key battleground between the GOP establishment and party insurgents. Danny Tarkanian, who is challenging Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) in
The man who police say transformed a New York City bike path into a terror scene was an Uzbekistan native who made 1,400 trips as an Uber driver and formed two commercial truck businesses.
Multiple officials have identified the alleged truck driver who mowed down pedestrians Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing eight and injuring about a dozen more, as 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov.
Netflix is exploring a “House of Cards” spinoff as the show’s final season nears amid controversy surrounding star Kevin Spacey.
An arrest warrant has been obtained for actress Rose McGowan for felony possession of a controlled substance.
Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng write in the Daily Beast that Steve Bannon is questioning the efficacy of President Trump’s current legal team in dealing with Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential election:
Alfredo Ortiz, the president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, defends President Trump’s tax cut framework from critics who seek to discredit it by comparing the Republican federal tax cut effort to Kansas state’s 2012 tax cuts.
Breitbart readers can now enjoy the complete audio narration of Patrick Courrielche’s exclusive three-part series Tinseltown Travelogue, with audio narrated by Courrielche himself.
Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon told President Trump on Friday that he was “off the chain” against Paul Singer, the Republican establishment mega-donor who originally funded the anti-Trump research that led to the discredited Russian dossier.
Paul Manafort — who served as the chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — will face charges from federal prosecutors in the special counsel investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to reports from CNN and the New York Times.
Edward Klein makes the shocking revelation that an FBI investigation discovered collusion between American anarchists and ISIS and Al-Qaeda in his latest book All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump.
After Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona excoriated President Trump on the Senate floor while announcing that he will not be running for re-election in 2018, New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields sat down with Judy Woodruff during PBS News Hour and analyzed the growing rift in the Republican party.
Jeff Flake and Bob Corker have fired shots but other senior Republicans are keeping their heads down as Steve Bannon readies an all-out assault on the establishment.
The Washington Post reported Thursday on how “Congress makes its own rules about the handling of sexual complaints … passing laws exempting it from practices that apply to other employers.”
Maureen Dowd interviews Mark Cuban for the New York Times, and he says that the “arrogant” Clinton campaign didn’t see their historic election loss coming.
The Russia investigation into President Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia is being conducted by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who today saw the grand jury he impaneled recommend charges.
One of the Republican party’s most influential donors signaled that he will support neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton in the November election. Paul Singer, the New York City hedge-fund manager who endorsed Marco Rubio before the Florida senator dropped out of the presidential race, said at a New York City event Monday evening that conservatives must “stand up for what we believe, which is not embodied by either choice on the menu in November,” according to a source in the room.
This article originally appeared at Reuters: The United States wants a meeting soon aimed at reviving a four-way dialogue between itself, Japan, India and Australia to deepen security cooperation and coordinate alternatives for regional infrastructure financing to that offered by China,
Ed Kilgore writes in New York magazine that Steve Bannon’s populist “New Right” movement bears a close resemblance to “the original new right of the 1970s” that galvanized Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon made a rare public appearance Monday at the Hudson Institute, a neoconservative Washington think tank.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tells the Financial Times that “establishment Republicans are in full collapse” and are “out of ideas, guts, and out of money” against the populist and economic nationalist primary challengers targeting GOP incumbents in 2018.
Actress Ashley Judd says she escaped Harvey Weinstein’s sexual advances by making a deal.
Donald Trump has saluted the “extraordinary elevation” of President Xi Jinping and compared him to a “king” on the eve of his trip to meet an exalted and emboldened leader now considered China’s most powerful since Mao.
