The Chickens Roost: President Trump returned to the White House yesterday and gathering clouds over his administration after a checkered 9-day foreign tour. Trump is reported to be collecting a private legal team to deal with inquiries into possible Russian …

Moscow on the Potomac: Two days after the election, President Obama warned Donald Trump not to make Gen. Michael Flynn his national security adviser, the White House admitted after NBC News broke the story.  Trump appointed Flynn anyway and had …

The Russia House: Sally Yates, who was Acting Attorney General for only 10 days before she was fired for refusing to enforce President Trump’s immigration order, is scheduled to testify today before a Senate committee examining the Trump campaign’s ties …

As France Goes: French voters went to the polls today to choose between two political outsiders, a far right nationalist, and a moderate political novice whose campaign was hacked just days before the election. Emmanuel Macron, 39, wants to strengthen …

Le Hack: The campaign of French moderate Emmanuel Macron has been hit by what they call a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation after which internal campaign documents were published on social media. The campaign staff says internal emails, accounting documents, …

French Toast: France’s far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen finished a close second in elections yesterday and moves on to a May 7 runoff. Emmanuel Macron, a centrist and political newcomer who supports staying in the European Union, finished …