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J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Donald Trump greater authority over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that a legal provision restricting the president’s ability to fire the director is unconstitutional. While the decision will make the CFPB less independent, it preserved the agency by severing the removal clause from…

President Trump retweeted a video of a supporter shouting “white power” Sunday — then deleted it after sparking a new firestorm of criticism. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” the president wrote on Twitter in a post retweeting the video, which was taken at a June 14 pro-Trump rally in the central…

President Trump on Monday mocked recent efforts to remove the names of John Wayne from a California airport and President Woodrow Wilson from a Princeton University school over concerns of racist sentiments.California Democrats in Orange County recently passed a resolution calling for Wayne's name to be scrubbed from their local airport due to “racist and bigoted statements," while…

President Trump said late Sunday that he was not told of intelligence that a Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan, including U.S. troops, because U.S. intelligence officials did not find it credible.“Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore…

President Trump in a Sunday night tweet said that due to the "process" voters must go through to obtain an absentee ballot, such voting is safer than general mail-in balloting — and he pointed to a voter-fraud scandal out of New Jersey back in May as evidence that universal mail-in voting would cause widespread problems.The president's contention comes as he and Republicans across the country have…