President Donald Trump insisted that no one would be “expelled” from Gaza, amid questions about his audacious plan to rebuild the war-torn strip.  “Nobody’s expelling any Palestinians,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday while meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. Egypt, which led negotiations on an Arab-led plan to rebuild Gaza, welcomed the president’s comment.  “This position reflects an understanding of the need to prevent...

A Virginia Republican lawmaker is blasting Democratic leaders in Richmond, after what she characterized as their hasty dispatching of a fresh piece of legislation she authored targeting sex offenders and people deemed dangerous to children. Delegate Kim Taylor, R-Petersburg, who herself won a “Biden+12” district in what is the state’s most Democratic municipality per-capita, said protecting the public from sexual deviants transcends party lines. “[This] isn’t a partisan...

The White House said a lawsuit filed by a law firm with ties to the FBI’s Russia investigation during President Donald Trump’s first term – known among conservatives as the “Russia collusion hoax” – is “absurd,” after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from cutting off the firm’s access to federal resources Wednesday.  Perkins Coie, the firm that hired the company responsible for composing the so-called “Steele...