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President Trump’s stunning dismissal of John R. Bolton clears the stage for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — along with Vice President Mike Pence, one of the few members of Mr. Trump’s original national security inner circle still standing — to wield more influence over a raft of foreign policy challenges confronting the White House.

While Mr. Pompeo was publicly aligned with the ousted

There was a time when Republicans were eager to have Eric Holder gone from the Justice Department. That time isn't now.

GOP lawmakers began calling for the attorney general's resignation as early as 2011, and they even held him in contempt of Congress a year later.

Nowadays the issue keeping Holder in office has nothing to do with him, or Loretta Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney

The U.S. Department of Agriculture runs a whole host of farm-and-rural programs and subsidies that in practice function as little more than corporate welfare for agribusiness, but one of the most onerous results of the governments persistent interference is that the American sugar market now operates like a federally-sponsored racket, to the benefit of a handful of farmers but the detriment of

The political war over the debt ceiling is back. And the drama looks poised to play out much as it has in the past: with partisan rancor and brinkmanship.

The Treasury Department on Friday began taking preliminary steps to extend the length of time before breaching the federal borrowing limit, which technically will be reached Sunday when a congressionally imposed suspension expires.