President Trump has privately signaled he will not approve any additional help for Puerto Rico beyond the food-stamp money, setting up a congressional showdown with Democrats who have pushed for more expansive help for the island.
The president called Robert Mueller’s report a “total exoneration,” even though Mueller reached no conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice.
The commandant of the Marine Corps warned in secret memos that President Trump's diversions of money from the military's budget to build his wall pose an “unacceptable risk to the combat readiness and solvency” of our armed forces.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country will launch a buyback program to take existing weapons out of circulation while those who don’t comply will be subject to fines.
Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years. It’s an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.
President Trump has a long history of disparaging Muslims and other minorities, while simultaneously refusing to forcefully condemn white supremacy and violent nationalism.
New Zealand’s coalition government plans to formally unveil strict new gun laws within the next week as a direct response to the attacks on the mosques in Christchurch.
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.
Following days of resistance, the FAA issued an emergency order grounding Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 jets. President Trump announced the abrupt about-face Wednesday, after U.S. officials found themselves alone in allowing the planes to remain in the air.
Fifty people were charged yesterday with allegedly participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to get their children admitted to prestigious colleges.
A chummy discussion between Vice President Pence and Dick Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Trump’s foreign policy during a private retreat for donors this weekend.
President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing any previous presidential reelection effort.
Legal experts generally expected Judge T.S. Ellis to sentence Manafort to somewhere below the suggested range of 19 to 24 years in prison. But many were shocked by how little time the Ronald Reagan appointee gave the former Reagan campaign staffer.
Omar suggested last week that supporters of Israel here have an "allegiance to a foreign country." Her defenders argued that House Democratic leaders are applying a double standard in singling out one of the two Muslim women in Congress.
New York state regulators subpoenaed documents yesterday from the Trump Organization’s insurance broker after Michael Cohen testified that the president exaggerated his wealth to insurance companies.
The House Judiciary Committee's inquiries touch on a wide array of matters, from the president’s business dealings with Russia to the firing of former FBI director James Comey to hush payments made to women.
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls came to Selma, Ala., on Sunday for the annual pilgrimage to remember Bloody Sunday and the civil rights movement. But, for much of the day, the focus was on past candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Some foreign officials, whose communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, privately discussed ways they could try to manipulate Kushner.
President Trump said the main impediment to a deal was Kim Jong Un's requirement that the United States lift all economic sanctions on North Korea in exchange for the closure of only one North Korean nuclear facility.
In the opening statement, Michael Cohen plans to call Trump a “conman.” He’ll also level accusations that the president personally signed a check to cover “hush-money” payments to keep quiet an affair with Stormy Daniels.
Justice Elena Kagan has emerged as one of the Supreme Court’s most powerful voices on the separation of church and state, often rebuking conservative colleagues for allowing government actions that she says favor one religion over another.
The National Security Council initiative would include hand-picked scientists who have questioned both the severity of climate change and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem.
The ruling is a stinging rebuke for prosecutors and how they behaved in the grim, high-profile Jeffrey Epstein case.
President Trump’s special North Korea envoy Stephen Biegun arrived in Hanoi overnight. He’s on a mission to iron out a deal with Pyongyang ahead of next week’s second nuclear summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
One adviser who spoke with the president this weekend said Trump is still enraged about Coats’s congressional testimony on national security threats from last month.
A coalition of 16 states led by California filed a federal lawsuit Monday aimed at stopping Trump’s plan to build a border wall by declaring a national emergency.
Congress approved a massive budget deal last night to avert a government shutdown and President Trump promised to sign it, but only after announcing he would also declare a national emergency so he can get more money for a border wall.
The House Judiciary Committee passed a measure that would require background checks for all gun sales and most gun transfers within the United States. It is the most significant gun-control legislation to advance this far in Congress in years.
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, one of Mueller’s top lieutenants, told a federal judge during a sealed hearing last week that the meeting at the cigar club goes, “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating.”
Key lawmakers reached a tentative compromise agreement last night to avoid another government shutdown at the end of the week. But hurdles remained, and President Trump’s ultimate backing was in doubt after quick opposition emerged from conservatives.
