Hicks Acknowledges ‘White Lies’ for Trump, but Not on Russia

White House communications director Hope Hicks acknowledged to a House intelligence panel that she has told “white lies” for President Donald Trump but not about the Russia investigation. Feb. 28, 2018, at 7:19 a.m.. Feb. 28, 2018, at 7:19 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Hicks Acknowledges ‘White Lies’ for Trump, but …

Billy Graham is getting a rare salute by the nation’s political leaders under the Capitol Rotunda in Washington. Feb. 28, 2018, at 5:47 a.m.. Graham, Wary of Politics … WASHINGTON (AP) — He felt stung by the politics that helped define his life — and resolved to keep a distance. But in death, the Rev. Billy Graham is getting …

How easy is it to change people’s votes in an election? The answer, a growing number of studies conclude, is that most forms of political persuasion seem to have little effect at all. This conclusion may sound jarring at a time when people are concerned about the effects of the false news articles that flooded …

Animated by a wave of polling since the Florida massacre, Democratic governors warned that candidates would pay a political price for opposing new gun regulations, and some of their Republican counterparts conceded that the pleas of voters could no longer be ignored as they increasingly abandon the …

Minnesotans may be nice, but their state government is awfully imperious when it comes to politics. Since 1912, the state has banned any “political badge, politicalbutton, or other political insignia” in or around polling places on Election Day. That’s a problem, because the First Amendment extends far …

To many of its opponents, that decades-long string of victories is proof that the N.R.A. has bought its political support. But the numbers tell a more complicated story: The organization’s political action committee over the last decade has not made a single direct contribution to any current member of the …

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The election is widely expected to be the country’s tightest political contest in decades. … The Malaysia Today portal last week kick-started the attacks against Kuok with a series of articles alleging he was quietly funding the DAP and The Malaysian Insight, a news website widely viewed as pro-opposition.

“The EEO-1 was a public, if implicit, federal declaration of the nation’s minorities,” writes University of California, San Diego political scientist John Skrentny in his 2002 book “The Minority Rights Revolution.” “Being listed on the EEO-1 was a crucial prerequisite for benefiting from a difference-conscious …

Trump Says He Is ‘Tougher’ on Russia. The tweets come as the special counsel rolled out new indictments in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. By Gabrielle Levy, Political Reporter. Feb. 20, 2018, at 10:47 a.m.. By Gabrielle Levy, Political Reporter Feb. 20, 2018, at 10:47 a.m.. U.S. News & World …