Hamas’ treatment of the hostages it has been holding in captivity in the Gaza Strip is “intolerable,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Thursday, warning that “it’s not going to be tolerated by President Trump.”  Witkoff spoke outside the White House a day after President Donald Trump met with eight former hostages in Washington and posted what he called a “last warning” to Hamas on...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would rescind security clearances and access to certain federal resources for Perkins Coie, the law firm that hired the company responsible for crafting the so-called “Steele dossier” containing alleged salacious material and Trump’s alleged connections to Russia, which the president has denied.  “This is an absolute honor to sign,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “What they’ve done, it’s just terrible....

Two moderate Democrats who voted against censuring Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, suggested they did not believe Congress should be focused on such matters. Ten Democratic lawmakers broke from their party to vote on a House GOP-led resolution to formally admonish Green for protesting during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.  The majority of those 10 are considered frontline Democrats in more...