How the coronavirus has infected Trump's presidency -- and is spreading throughout the global economy

Nobody saw this coming. Turns out it may not be Bernie, Mike, Joe, Liz, Pete—or even Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff—who bring down Donald Trump.

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Maybe Michael Bloomberg wasn't as awful as he looked

Call me crazy, but the media could have it wrong about Michael Bloomberg. The latest Democratic debate post-mortem came fast and furious – and from a prominent Op-Ed in The New York Times to the cover of The New York Post –and the verdict was almost unanimous.

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It looks like the Donald Trump-Boris Johnson honeymoon is finally over -- thanks to China

They could co-star in “Dumb and Dumber—The OK Boomer Special Edition,” but Donald Trump and Boris Johnson reached a critical point in their sometimes rocky bromance this week.

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Anonymous ex-intel officer explains how the Suleimani assassination may impede US intelligence gathering

Trump’s hit on Iran’s powerful military mastermind Qassim Suleimani may have just closed the door on future U.S. monitoring of other high-level Iranians and their efforts to build nuclear weapons.

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Here's why Congress wants to look inside the bank that fronted Donald Trump $2 billion

Just try phoning Trump’s private banker Rosemary T. Vrablic at Deutsche Bank’s U.S. headquarters in Manhattan. Back in 2017, before too many bankers involved with Deutsche Bank started turning up dead, Trump once dared reporters to call her, saying she was the “the head” of the bank and “the boss.”

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World to the US: 'What the hell is going on' with Trump's 'shady cast of characters?'

It may be the biggest story in Washington and one that’s further polarized an already bitterly divided nation but does the rest of the world care about the effort to impeach Donald Trump?

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Is this Ukraine 2.0? Trump's OMB holds up congress-approved military assistance

Congress approved more than $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon in September but the Trump administration won’t even tell Beirut the check is in the mail.

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A distracted White House does nothing as China makes a startling expansion into the South China Sea

While President Donald Trump basked in the glow of a fake picture of him giving a military hero dog a medal of honor and infuriated Russia by claiming the U.S. is “keeping the oil” in Syria, he’s blowing off two key summits in East Asia this week, despite China’s increasing aggression in one of the most dangerous corners of the world.

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Syria is still a bewildering mess -- with or without the US

Time was, conflict in the Middle East was complicated. Trump changed all that.

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The Kurds will never again help the US in the Middle East: Veteran CIA officer

This week, as hundreds of ISIS fighters escaped from Kurdish prisons in northeastern Syria following Donald Trump’s decision to pull out American troops, a group of current and former “special operators” for U.S. intelligence met for a previously scheduled casual lunch in Washington.

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Now you know how weird this whole Ukraine thing really is

Everyone understands a blow job.

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The Trump-Kushner peace plan could be a victim of the messy Israeli election

Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed bromance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu is on the rocks because Netanyahu’s Likud party failed for a second time this year to win enough votes to secure his political future, throwing Israeli politics into indefinite disarray.

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Here's what really went down with Trump's Taliban peace talks misadventure

Donald Trump is not known for finessing foreign policy but for years prior to his election and during his campaign, he was mostly right about Afghanistan. He called it a “total disaster,” said it was “wasting our money” and that we should leave “immediately.”

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Longtime Fox News producer: 'I can’t tell you how unpopular Trump is here'

Does Fox News need President Donald Trump? Or does President Trump need Fox News? If former Fox News strongman and Trump supporter, the late Roger Ailes, were still running the network, those questions might never come up.

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