Rohingya refugees, hurricane debris, the President getting the finger: here are the top 25 news photos of 2017. Wind-driven wildfires burn out of control around Los Angeles; officials predict a tough battle for the rest of this week. “The President stole your land.” Patagonia will sue the White House
Deutsche Bank, Mr. Trump’s biggest lender, hands some of Trump's private banking information over to Mueller Alas, none of Trump’s tweets this year made Twitter’s list of most retweeted, though three of Obama’s did. “The Mormons came into this area in 1879. Since the
Early this morning, Senate Republicans passed their tax bill, much to the joy of plutocrats and those who believe they're just a lottery ticket away from becoming one. A pair of economists, one from each side of the aisle, discuss the finer points of the GOP tax plan—
Using dynamic scoring, the Joint Committee on Taxation says the GOP’s tax bill will cost America about a trillion dollars. Some Republicans consider that a bit of a snag. The Irish Stock Exchange sold for $163 million—about the same as what some top bankers were paid last year.
White House officials say they're planning to replace Tillerson with Pompeo, whose role as CIA head would be filled by Tom Cotton. Among our endangered English words: “proditomania,” the feeling that everyone around you is a traitor. In other news today, Trump has more inflammatory tweets and more
North Korea’s missile test, demonstrating that Washington D.C. is technically within its reach, puts new strain on US-China relations. A Russian television show in Syria shows grateful Syrians naming their babies after Vladimir Putin. A woman approached the Washington Post with a fake story about Roy Moore,
An explanation of the legal tug of war that's left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with two acting directors, one newly appointed by Trump and the other tapped by the departing director. Three years ago, Trump's CFPB appointee referred to the Bureau—which is designed to
ISIS has yet to claim responsibility for the attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt that killed 305. TIME says it didn’t offer its “Man of the Year” cover to Mr. Trump, as Mr. Trump claims. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is worth over $100 billion, thanks to Black Friday. Twenty-
Your Headlines Edition will be off for the next two days, and will return on Saturday, stuffed with dressing and deeply discounted smart TVs. After Zimbabwe's government had already begun the impeachment process, Robert Mugabe announced he would resign as president, ending 37 years of rule. Mugabe will
Putin hugs Assad during a rare meeting at a resort on the Black Sea. Putin promised to call Trump afterward to let him know how it went. Justice Department takes “a surprisingly tough stance” by attempting to stop AT&T Inc.’s takeover of Time Warner Inc. Harvard’s
