What We Learn About Trump in His Rare Moments of Self-Reflection

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For a guy who had just been rushed out of a ballroom at the sound of gunfire, he seemed remarkably calm. For a president who regularly attacks the press, he seemed unusually gracious. For a fleeting period on Saturday night, Donald Trump appeared introspective, or at least as introspective as he’s capable of being in public. “It’s always shocking when something like this happens,” he told reporters in the White House briefing room,…

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A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling

Republican senators have confirmed a onetime Bernie Sanders supporter to lead the nation’s intelligence community and a member of America’s most famous Democratic family as its health secretary. This morning, however, they saved some of their sharpest questions for a Cabinet nominee who, until last month, served alongside them as a GOP member of Congress. President Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, former Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon, knew she’d face a skeptical Republican audience during her Senate confirmation hearing. Last year, she supported a major pro-union bill known as…

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Polish president signs Holocaust bill, drawing rare US rebuke – Washington Post

Washington Post Polish president signs Holocaust bill, drawing rare US rebukeWashington PostBERLIN — Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law Tuesday banning people from accusing Poland of Holocaust atrocities committed by the Nazis and from referring to concentration camps as "Polish death camps" — heightening tensions with the United …US Disappointed at Polish President's Signing of Controversial Holocaust BillHaaretz Polish president signs Holocaust bill, triggers Israeli, US criticismReutersall 248 news articles » us president – Google News

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