After Trump Injects Politics Into Speech, Boy Scouts Face Blowback

By ALAN BLINDER and MITCH SMITH July 25, 2017 The plan seemed mutually beneficial: President Trump would bask in an adulatory slice of Americana, and the Boy Scouts of America would host yet another sitting president at its national jamboree. But...

Democrats Try to Find Economic Message After Railing Against Trump

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and ALEXANDER BURNS July 24, 2017 BERRYVILLE, Va. — For more than a year, Democrats have raged against now-President Trump, projecting their opposition as the party’s central message. In so doing, they have...

Trump Says He Has ‘Complete Power’ to Pardon

By PETER BAKER July 22, 2017 NORFOLK, Va — President Trump on Saturday asserted the “complete power to pardon” relatives, aides and possibly even himself in response to investigations into Russia’s meddling in last year’s...

Trump Aides, Seeking Leverage, Investigate Mueller’s Investigators

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MATT APUZZO July 20, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert...

How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, GLENN THRUSH and ROBERT PEAR July 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation, and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday at the White House, he let them know...

Engineers Begin Preparatory Work for Border Wall Construction

By RON NIXON July 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — The United States Army Corps of Engineers has begun preliminary preparations for the construction of segments of a wall in several places along the border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said on...