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“There is no time where physical altercation should occur, with the press – or just between human beings,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told a Capitol Hill room filled with the former species. He was addressing reporters the morning after GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte of Montana was charged with allegedly body…

Hours after President Donald Trump and House Republicans celebrated passage of the Trumpcare bill, NBC’s Late Night star Seth Meyer savaged the plan to “strip health insurance away from millions people before most Americans, and even many members of Congress, knew what was in the bill.” In the run up to the vote…

UPDATED with President Trump’s Rose Garden Victory Lap remarks: Trumpcare now is officially a thing, with the House passing its Obamacare repeal plan, 217 to 213. The razor-thin win already is being heralded as a major, if short-term, victory for President Donald Trump, coming six weeks after the House had to pull a…

After lobbing a threat to change libel laws in order to sue the New York Times, President Donald Trump Thursday afternoon swung his Mighty Twitter Machine back 180 degrees to the right, and returned to the business he’d begun in the morning of taking shots at House Freedom Caucus holdouts standing in the way of his…

On Thursday, Paul Ryan told CBS that the president said there was no malicious intent behind his tweet Saturday morning plugging Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show on the Fox News Channel later that night. "He actually was very apologetic about it," Ryan told Norah O’Donnell in an interview broadcast on CBS This Morning. By…

“He’s a fan of the show, plain and simple,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said today when asked whether President Donald Trump owed House Speaker Paul Ryan an apology for plugging Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Saturday show on Fox News Channel in which she demanded Ryan resign over Trumpcare’s flop. Asked during…

UPDATED with Trump news conference. President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the major blow to his new administration, after he failed to secure enough votes to get his Trumpcare bill past the House. "We were very close … and had no Democratic support," Trump said at an Oval Office address held not long after…

Donald Trump tweeted his opening shot at House Freedom Caucus Republicans, who are still holding out on casting a “yes” vote for Trumpcare. Yesterday’s vote, scheduled to coincide with the 7th anniversary of the signing of Obamacare, got scrubbed when House Speaker Paul Ryan and crew realized they still did not have…

Refresh for latest…PBS newscaster Gwen Ifill’s death this morning, at age 61, is top trending worldwide on Twitter, as comments pour in from both the media industry and the political word she covered. "She not only informed today's citizens, but she also inspired tomorrow's journalists," @POTUS says of Gwen Ifill. pi…

Showtime’s campaign documentary series The Circus has decided to cut short its vacation and return to air this Sunday because, duh. The Circus said it is ending its planned two-week break to “cover the fallout from the dramatic new developments in the presidential race.” The real question is, what the heck was a…

Donald Trump blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan this morning as the GOP erupted in internecine battle over an Access Hollywood tape in which the Republican presidential candidate said he was so famous he could grope women with impunity. Trump’s latest Twitter tirade, which is keeping TV news outlets hopping this morning…

Media got undie-bunched this afternoon when Donald Trump’s campaign website scrubbed all upcoming campaign events from Veep candidate Mike Pence’s schedule. “Please check back later for an updated schedule,” the site advised, sending reporters into speculation fifth gear. The day’s news cycle was peppered with calls…