- Yahoo News Photo Staff
PHOTOS: 4th consecutive Saturday of anti-government protests in Paris
Anti-government protesters faced off with French riot police in Paris on Saturday, hurling projectiles, torching cars and vandalizing shops and restaurants in a fourth weekend of unrest that has shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s authority.
- Alexander Nazaryan
How Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke came undone
He arrived on a horse for his first day on the job and was welcomed at the Interior Department by an honor song. Zinke's departure is unlikely to be so ceremonial.
- Caitlin Dickson
Young girl’s death in Border Patrol custody leaves questions unanswered
The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, Jackeline Caal, who reached the United States last week. She was apprehended with her father by Border Patrol agents in a group of more than 150 people at a remote area of the desert in New Mexico, renewing questions about the detention and treatment of migrants.
- Hunter Walker
Mick Mulvaney will be just the acting chief of staff 'because that's what the president wants,' White House says
President Trump's search for a new chief of staff is over, at least for now.
- Jon Ward
Walker signs measures critics call a Republican power grab
The Wisconsin GOP has held control of the governorship and both chambers of Wisconsin's Legislature — what’s known as a trifecta — for most of the last decade. This may help to account for the outgoing governor's attempt to pass this package of bills before a Democrat takes over.
- David Knowles
Now playing: Trump's latest defense — I never said 'to break the law'
The president keeps revising his explanation of hush-money payments made to two women who claimed to have had extramarital affairs with him.
- Andrew Romano
Rep. Ro Khanna's 'new New Deal': Bringing tech jobs to rural America
Rep. Ro Khanna, whose California district encompasses much of Silicon Valley, has long been a proponent of projects that use technology to fight the decline and depopulation of rural America.
- James Kitfield
Jamal Khashoggi's unlikely legacy could be an end to the catastrophe in Yemen
In the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the U.S. Senate is reassessing American policy toward Saudi Arabia — including support for the disastrous war in Yemen, where millions face starvation.
- Hunter Walker
White House says probe of inauguration funding has 'nothing to do with the president'
The White House is brushing off reports that federal prosecutors are investigating the over $100 million that was raised from donors for President Trump’s inauguration last year.
- Michael Isikoff
Obama DOJ official: Trump can be indicted while in office
Neal Katyal, a former deputy and acting solicitor general, told "Skullduggery" that there is indeed a way to indict Trump.
- David Knowles
Trump's foreign policy betrays American ideals, says former ethics chief
Walter Shaub takes issue with the president over his recent stances on Saudi Arabia and China.
- Alexander Nazaryan
On criminal justice reform, policy prevails over politics
The First Step Act is expected to be passed by the Senate soon and then to be signed by President Trump, reversing more than two decades of tough-on-crime policies.
- David Knowles
In farewell speeches, senators bemoan downfall of the 'world's greatest deliberative body'
In their farewell addresses on the Senate floor, senators call out the hyperpartisan atmosphere that has taken hold of the U.S. Capitol.
- Michael Isikoff
Plea deal by Russian agent Maria Butina describes 2016 influence campaign
Russian agent Maria Butina’s plea deal includes a description of the “Diplomacy Project” she ran, under the direction of Putin ally Alexander Torshin, to influence American policy leading up to the 2016 election.
- Dylan Stableford
Trump: I never asked Michael Cohen to commit crimes
President Trump, who once denied knowing about the hush-money payments, now suggests his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen should’ve known what they were doing was illegal.
- Matt Bai
Yes, he really said that. What Trump gets about his presidency that critics don't.
When Trump flouts the conventions of the office, he’s winning with his core voters. It doesn’t matter what he’s saying — what matters is that he’s making the rest of us howl in indignation.
- Hunter Walker
Rudy Giuliani says Trump's legal team wants Mueller to 'wrap the damn thing up'
"He can’t prosecute him. All he can do is write a report about him, so write the goddamned thing and get it over with now.”
- Jon Ward
Trump-backed criminal justice bill likely to pass before Christmas
“We’ve got 79 committed yes votes on this bill. I think by the time we vote on it, it will be in the high 80s,” said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a key backer of the legislation, on Fox News radio.
Christopher WilsonReferendum games: The people have spoken, but the legislators have the final say
Ballot measures are a way for voters to exercise some direct democracy, but in some cases the will of the people doesn't translate to policy.
- Dylan Stableford
Trump uses terror attack in France to push U.S. border wall
President Trump on Wednesday offered the deadly shooting at a Christmas market in Strasbourg as evidence the United States needs stronger border security.
- Hunter Walker
Where are Trump's '10 terrorists' who were busted at the border?
"We caught 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time."
- Alexander Nazaryan
Google chief faces lawmakers concerned with Silicon Valley, but often puzzled by technology
“Almost every question has a misunderstanding embedded in it,” tweeted Nicholas Thompson, editor of technology magazine Wired. “It’s making my head explode.”
- Dylan Stableford
In heated clash with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump says he'll shut down government 'if we don't get what we want' for wall
In a remarkable exchange in front of reporters inside the Oval Office, President Trump and Congressional Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi argued over border security.
- Alexander Nazaryan
Trump's losing, lonely fight to save coal
Trump has labored mightily to restore coal to the prominence it enjoyed in the first half of the 20th century. But neither policymakers nor energy companies are following his lead.
- Dylan Stableford
Imagining a school shooting through the gunman's eyes: Sandy Hook Promise releases chilling new video
A public service announcement released by the gun violence prevention organization Sandy Hook Promise depicts the moments leading up to a school shooting from the shooter’s perspective.
