Ashley Parker New York Times

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  Trump Slams "Gutless" Anonymous NYT Op-Ed, Author Claims To Be An Insider

  President Donald Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an unsigned opinion column from a senior official blasting the president's "amorality" and launched a frantic hunt for the author, who claims to be part of a secret "resistance" inside the government protecting the nation from its commander in chief.

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  Black Protester Is Sucker-Punched By White Supporter At Trump Rally

  A black protester being escorted out of a Donald Trump campaign rally Wednesday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sucker-punched and shoved by a Trump supporter, several videos on social media show.

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  Facebook Expands in Politics, and Campaigns Find Much to Like

  Facebook, already a major player in past cycles, has been working to expand its digital dominance in the political realm.

• What Twitter does in Washington

  Adam Sharp fits in well in the Beltway political scene where he used to work -- first in the office of Senator Mary L. Landrieu, and then as the executive producer for digital services at C-Span. But his new job,...

• Meet the man who makes Obama sweat

  Michael Strautmanis had no sooner started his White House job as a deputy assistant to the president when his boss began badgering him. "Am I working out? Am I eating right?" Mr. Strautmanis recalled President Obama asking. "And then he told me that I should use his trainer." The very fit president has sent other White House aides to Cornell McClel...

• American held in Pakistan shootings worked with the CIA

  The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore, the detained American contractor, Raymond A. Davis...

• What Twitter does in Washington

  Adam Sharp fits in well in the Beltway political scene where he used to work -- first in the office of Senator Mary L. Landrieu, and then as the executive producer for digital services at C-Span. But his new job, as Twitter's Washington liaison, requires a slightly different skill set. Now Mr. Sharp, a 32-year-old with brown hair, glasses and a spr...

• His job is to make public Obama's candid side

  Arun Chaudhary is the White House's ultimate fly on the wall. Perpetually clad in New Balance sneakers and suits that are just slightly askew, he dashes in and out of meetings, from East Room news conferences to the Oval Office and back again, out through the South Portico and into the White House vegetable garden -- all while scrambling to blend i...

• Clinton wedding is leaving some feeling left out

  So, just what does it take to score an invitation to the hottest -- not to mention most secretive -- political wedding of the summer?Many of her parents' political allies were not invited to the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky.More than a cross-country ride on a private jet, apparently."I'm good enough to borrow a plane from, but not ...