Friday's Headlines: Critics fear Trump’s attacks are inflicting lasting damage on the justice system
Some of Trump's allies seem to have finally had it with him; Sessions pushes back on Trump, says Justice Dept. won't be influenced by politics; 'Dangerous and poisoned': Critics...
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President Trump took his criticism of the criminal justice system to new heights, alarming national security and law enforcement officials who fear the president is seeking to protect himself from encroaching investigations at the expense of American institutions.
By Felicia Sonmez, Josh Dawsey and Ann Marimow • Read more »
Michael Cohen. Jeff Sessions. Maybe tabloid boss David Pecker. In the span of three days, the president may have lost the loyalties of three people he used to rely on.
The statement came after Trump lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying he failed to take control of the Justice Department and was given his job only because of his loyalty. Two senators suggested Sessions might be replaced.
By Devlin Barrett, John Wagner and Seung Min Kim • Read more »
The president's inaccurate tweet about the "large scale killing" of white farmers marked his latest bid to signal common cause with nationalist movements abroad.
By David Nakamura, John Hudson and Isaac Stanley-Becker • Read more »
They may not share opinions on the president, but longtime friends Paul Black and Paul Cochran have an almost identical view of their struggling community and the challenges facing the kids on their school buses.
By Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson | Photos by Michael S. Williamson • Read more »
William F. Liebenow, who was buried Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, never liked to brag about rescuing John F. Kennedy when the future president and his PT-109 crew were stranded on a Pacific island in 1943.
With a major hurricane bearing down on the state for the first time since 1992, residents shifted their attention from one natural disaster — volcanic eruptions — to another.
By Lynh Bui, Breena Kerr and Courtney Teague • Read more »
A dispute over greenhouse gas emissions capped an ongoing feud between Malcolm Turnbull and the right wing of his own Liberal Party, which voted Friday to make Scott Morrison the country's fourth prime minister in five years.
The move comes ahead of a scheduled Friday vote on the plan — a meeting that activists plan to pack, saying they remain wary of the Board of Elections for taking the proposal seriously in the first place.
Calls to press hate-crime charges against a white, schizophrenic felon who is suspected of attacking two black women are straining a gentrifying California city that has been steadily losing its black population.
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