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Wiretap: Floridians may know their hurricanes, but few storms are anything like Irma

It will be a while before they can assess the damage that Hurricane Irma has left in its wake, but what we do know...

Wiretap: In cutting a deal with Dems, Trump strikes a blow against stunned Republicans

If you had in your pool a Republican Party civil war in Year One of the Trump administration, you may be a winner. Trump...

Wiretap: Trump’s late night tweet on DACA confuses everything and everyone

This won't surprise you, but Donald Trump was back at the Twitter machine and was once again undercutting a day's worth of policy. After...

Wiretap: Trump has definitely turned his back on Dreamers, unless he hasn’t — yet

Donald Trump, who campaigned on ending DACA, has apparently decided to pull the plug on the program that protects immigrants who were brought here illegally...

Wiretap: Harvey moves on from shattered Houston, bringing more devastation to Gulf Coast

As the sun finally showed up in Houston, Harvey made a second landfall on the Gulf Coast cutting across southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana....

Wiretap: As Texans battle Harvey, many have had to be their own first responders

They're calling Harvey a 500-year event, the worst storm ever to hit Texas, a storm that has left many roads impassable and 911 calls...

Wiretap: Everyone’s talking about Trump’s speech, but the real fireworks are yet to come

The Trump-McConnell fued has moved to a crisis point, writes The New York Times, as a budget showdown looms and a possible governmental shutdown...

Wiretap: Who could have predicted Trump’s latest outrage? Well, Obama for one

Who could have predicted Donald Trump's stunning reaction to the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville? Barack Obama for one, writes David Remnick in The New...

Wiretap: After Barcelona, Europe again agonizing over how to stop terrorist van attacks

The vehicle that killed at least 13 people on Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas was at least the sixth deadly van attack in Europe in...

Wiretap: CEOs, military chiefs, GOP pols take turns jabbing Trump over Charlottesville

The question now is who hasn't dumped, or dumped on, Donald Trump after his comments on the white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville. Five armed services...