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President Donald Trump has chosen a "career member" of the Secret Service to be its new director starting in May, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Monday afternoon. Sanders' announcement of the selection of James Murray followed the news that Trump was removing the current director of the Secret Service, Randolph "Tex" Alles, amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security. In her statement announcing the move, Sanders described Murray as "a career member" of the US Secret Service.

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a chant from President Donald Trump's supporters mocking her was emblematic of Trump finding a female politician to attack. "You know this is part of a pattern that the right and the far-right and, frankly, the President is consistent with," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN in New York. "He doesn't have another woman, Hillary Clinton or whoever else, to vilify anymore so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod." At a rally in Michigan on Thursday, members of the crowd could be heard chanting "AOC sucks"...

President Donald Trump made his first visit to a war zone on Wednesday, receiving an enthusiastic reception from many US troops there -- some of whom may have run afoul of military rules. Video footage and the written report of Trump's visit with service members in Iraq showed the President signing "Make America Great Again" hats and an embroidered patch that read "Trump 2020." But troops' requests for the autographs could brush up against Department of Defense guidelines for political activities. Those guidelines say that "active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should...

Two former friends of Sen. John McCain say his daughter Meghan McCain's pointed criticism of President Donald Trump in her speech at the Arizona Republican's memorial service on Saturday reflected the character of her late father. "She is her father's daughter," South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "If you say something bad about her dad, you will know it, whether you're the janitor or the President of the United States. She is grieving for the father she adored. I think most Americans understand that." Former independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who joined...