President Donald Trump arranged for far-right activist Laura Loomer to join him in the Oval Office this week for an extraordinary meeting that preceded a shake-up of his national security leadership,

Loomer visited the White House on Wednesday and said in a subsequent post on X that she presented him with "research findings" and promised to continue to push for "strong vetting."Start the day smarter.

It is the behind–the–scenes battle for power that has the White House on tenterhooks. The Ice Queen vs. The Hot Mess. With Melania Trump largely absent from the president’s inner circle, Susie Wiles has been the matriarch of the West Wing,