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White House Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway smiles with chief strategist Steve Bannon in the Oval Office. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Breitbart: At the Head of a Media Network Surrounding Trump

by Mohammed Ali Saleh | Mar 27, 2017 | Features

Washington – Last week, a journalist from Breitbart newspaper (extremist right-wing newspaper whose former editor-in-chief was Steve Bannon and is currently the White House chief strategist) went to the Congress to get a Congress coverage card. During a question...

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A US drone lands at Afghanistan’s Jalalabad Airport where a US C-130 military transport plane crashed in Jalalabad on Oct 2, 2015. AFP

White House Mulls Lowering Threshold on Acceptable Civilian Casualties in Drone Strikes

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Mar 15, 2017 | World

Washington- The Trump administration is close to finishing a review that would make it easier for the Pentagon to launch counterterrorism strikes anywhere in the world by lowering the threshold on acceptable civilian casualties and scaling back other constraints...

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The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, which houses the the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency. Scott Pruitt has been confirmed as the agency’s administrator, but the White House has yet to nominate anyone to fill another dozen critical jobs requiring Senate confirmation. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times

Trump Lets Key Offices Gather Dust Amid ‘Slowest Transition in Decades’

by JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and SHARON LaFRANIERE | Mar 14, 2017 | World

WASHINGTON — At the State Department, the normally pulsating hub of executive offices is hushed and virtually empty. At the Pentagon, military missions in some of the world’s most troubled places are being run by a defense secretary who has none of his top team in...

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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson during a meeting this month. Supporters say he has accomplished much behind the scenes. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

Tillerson Leads From State Dept. Shadows as White House Steps In

by David Sanger | Mar 13, 2017 | World

Washington- Henry A. Kissinger slipped into the State Department last week for a quiet lunch in his old office with Rex W. Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil chief executive, who has all but covered himself in a cloak of invisibility in his first six weeks as secretary...

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White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (C) arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Flynn Told Trump Team He might Register as a Foreign Agent

by Ashley Parker | Mar 12, 2017 | World

Attorneys for Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, informed the incoming White House legal counsel during the transition that Flynn might need to register with the government as a foreign agent — a phone call that raised no alarms within...