Arms and the Man: President Trump was greeted in Riyadh yesterday with artillery salutes and a flyby of fighter jets before he signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the first stop of his foreign tour. The …

WikiFree: Swedish prosecutors say they are dropping their rape investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, theoretically leaving him free to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has been holed up for five years to avoid arrest. He may …

Sound and Fury: The appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion is a blow to the already-troubled presidency. It sets loose a hunting dog …

Leaker-in-Chief: In a report that might drown out every other uproar over President Trump, The Washington Post broke a story that says the president revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting …

CyberWorld: The worldwide ransomware attack could get worse today as people return to their offices and open their computers, according to cyber security experts. Many office workers, particularly in Asia, had logged off their office computers Friday before the WannaCry …

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 …

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 …

Open for Business: Congressional leaders yesterday reached a bi-partisan agreement that will avert the threat of a government shutdown until Sept. 30th. The bill includes no money for the president’s border wall and mostly preserves the Environmental Protection Agency. To …

Wish List: The White House yesterday released President Trump’s sketchy plan for tax reform, a one-page bullet point list of changes that would be a windfall for the wealthy and provide some relief for more average taxpayers. The plan did …

100 Days: While dismissing the first 100 days of a presidency as an artificial standard, President Trump is putting on a political and PR campaign to make his first 100 days look great. Although he’s already declared that he has …