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Mark Wilson/Getty Images White House By ASSOCIATED PRESS 12/07/2018 10:40 PM EST A divided U.S. appeals court late Friday refused to immediately allow the Trump administration to enforce a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The ban is inconsistent with an existing U.S. law and an attempted end-run around Congress, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1…

Mark Wilson/Getty Images White House By ASSOCIATED PRESS 12/07/2018 10:40 PM EST A divided U.S. appeals court late Friday refused to immediately allow the Trump administration to enforce a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The ban is inconsistent with an existing U.S. law and an attempted end-run around Congress, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1…

For the fourth weekend in a row, yellow vest protesters took to the streets across France to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron, high taxes, and economic inequality. The weekly protests have steadily grown more violent, and French officials said by the end of Saturday, dozens were injured and hundreds arrested. Thousands of police officers were deployed to control the riots, eventually firing tear gas and rubber bullets, and repelling demonstrators…

Tear gas was hurled as protesters, known as yellow vests, took part in a fourth demonstration in Paris on Saturday. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images Tear gas was hurled as protesters, known as yellow vests, took part in a fourth demonstration in Paris on Saturday. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images Updated at 5:21 p.m. ET The streets of Paris were filled with thousands of…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

A man known as the “Crying Nazi” from his role in the Charlottesville alt-right protests posted a detailed post on alt-right site Gab threatening more violence after the conviction of Heather Heyer’s murderer this week. In the post, Christopher Cantwell called James Fields an innocent man. Fields was found guilty of murdering Heyer on Friday. She was killed during the Charlottesville protests, which took place in August 2017, when Fields drove his car into…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

Christopher Cantwell is helped by police after being overcome by tear gas during the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) Cleve R. Wootson Jr. December 8 at 3:52 PM When Christopher Cantwell learned that self-professed neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. had been convicted of murder, he promised violent retribution — “complete and total destruction” by “an army of fanatics” ready to die for their…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

A man known as the “Crying Nazi” from his role in the Charlottesville alt-right protests posted a detailed post on alt-right site Gab threatening more violence after the conviction of Heather Heyer’s murderer this week. In the post, Christopher Cantwell called James Fields an innocent man. Fields was found guilty of murdering Heyer on Friday. She was killed during the Charlottesville protests, which took place in August 2017, when Fields drove his car into…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, a verdict that local civil rights activists hope will help heal a community still scarred by the violence and the racial tensions it inflamed nationwide. A state jury rejected defense arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense during a “Unite the Right”…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many more people were detained on 8 December than during the previous weekends French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has vowed to “restore national unity” after violence broke out during a fourth consecutive weekend of protests. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday – the latest day of “yellow vest” demonstrations against fuel tax rises and high living costs. Almost 1,000 people were taken…

Darrell Issa, Republican member of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, had a front-row seat to former FBI Director James Comey’s closed-door testimony.

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President Trump appears poised to make Nick Ayers his third chief of staff as he prepares for re-election, replacing John Kelly with a wunderkind political operative whose confident, no-nonsense manner has ruffled feathers but also stirred admiration. Trump is poaching the 36-year-old Ayers from Vice President Mike Pence, for whom he has served as chief of staff since the summer of last year. Beginning in his early 20s, Ayers served…