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Trump’s war with Jeff Sessions

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary public denouncement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions reflected a long-simmering frustration with one of his staunchest allies, but was not a calculated attempt to force Sessions from the Cabinet, according to two Trump advisers. For weeks, the president has seethed about Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the federal investigation into whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during last year’s election. On Wednesday, ...

by DOUG THOMPSON - Opinion

Ironic that Sen. John McCain’s surgery to remove a blot clot delayed the latest planned vote on the chaotic health care plan proposed by the Republican-controlled Senate of Congress. McCain is r ...

by RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURIE KELLMAN

Americans aren’t enthralled with “Obamacare” and they definitely don’t like the Republican plans offered in Congress, so what does the public want the government to do about health care? A new poll suggests the country may be shifting toward the political left on the issue, w ...

by DONNA CASSATA

Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, Vietnam prisoner of war and political maverick in Congress for more than three decades, has been diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain tumor. The 80-year-old Arizona lawmaker has glioblastoma, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in ...