Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that his country is taking steps to halt its compliance with elements of the landmark nuclear deal in response to Trump pulling out of the accord and stiffening sanctions on Tehran.
Pro-free-trade senators have tried private meetings with President Trump, op-eds in prominent newspapers and other tactics to warn Trump away from a new round of tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts.
Armed factions in Gaza said that they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel that took hold in the early hours of Monday morning, after militants fired more than 600 rockets toward Israel this weekend. Israel responded with major airstrikes.
With little fanfare, the Trump administration has dramatically weakened offshore drilling safeguards that were put in place after the 2010 explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform.
Attorney General Bill Barr defended his handling of special counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation during an often-contentious Senate hearing yesterday.
Bob Mueller complained in a letter to Bill Barr that the four-page letter the attorney general sent to Congress describing the special counsel's principal conclusions did not “fully capture the context, nature and substance” of his work.
A major new survey shows growing numbers of people across the globe are dissatisfied with democracy and, even in the West, they’re becoming more susceptible to strongmen who promise easy solutions to complex problems.
On the final day of a major Jewish holiday, at a synagogue near San Diego, a 19-year-old man with an assault rifle and apparent anti-Semitic views opened fire, leaving one dead and three injured, authorities said.
North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official signed a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student home from Pyongyang in 2017.
Joe Biden made it official this morning. He launched his third campaign for the presidency with an announcement posted on YouTube. Biden’s entry is certain to shape at least the next few months of the 2020 Democratic primary fight.
In an interview with The Washington Post last night, Trump said that complying with congressional requests was unnecessary after the White House cooperated with Bob Mueller’s probe.
Three hotels and three churches were attacked by suicide bombers belonging to the radical Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath.
Bob Mueller’s report lays out abundant evidence against President Trump, finding 10 separate “episodes” of potential obstruction of justice but ultimately concluding it was not the special counsel’s role to determine whether the president broke the law.
The Justice Department plans to release a lightly redacted version of special counsel Bob Mueller’s 400-page report today, offering a granular look at the ways in which President Trump was suspected of having obstructed justice.
Legal filings provide new details about the events surrounding the deadly assault of Army Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar. The documents throw back a veil of secrecy on a culture in which womanizing and heavy drinking were said to be commonplace.
Notre Dame, completed in the 14th century, has withstood the test of time and the assault of history. In his remarks to a grieving nation close to midnight on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron promised to rebuild the cathedral.
Sanders feuded with the Center For American Progress, an influential liberal think tank that is aligned with the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. Sanders said CAP is “using its resources to smear” him.
White House officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months.
Ecuador, which took Julian Assange in when he was facing a Swedish rape investigation in 2012, said it was rescinding asylum because of his “discourteous and aggressive behavior” and for violating the terms of his asylum.
President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior over the past 12 days has alarmed top Republicans, business officials and foreign leaders. They fear that he might exacerbate problems at the border, harm the U.S. economy and degrade national security.
President Trump continued to dismantle the leadership of the nation’s top domestic security agency Monday, as the White House announced the imminent removal of U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph D. “Tex” Alles.
President Trump announced yesterday that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as secretary of homeland security. Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, will replace her on an acting basis.
The White House has become fixated on blocking the disclosure of President Trump’s tax returns, teeing up a dispute that could go to the Supreme Court.
Members of Robert Mueller’s team have complained to close associates that the evidence they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant. One person said, “It was much more acute than Barr suggested.”
President Trump has left his advisers and GOP lawmakers reeling from policy whiplash in recent days.
Tricia Newbold, a White House security adviser, told the House Oversight Committee that 25 people were given access to national security information despite concerns about ties to foreign influence and questionable or criminal conduct.
The White House doubled down Sunday on President Trump’s threat to close the border with Mexico despite warnings that doing so would cripple the American economy and hurt consumers.
President Trump misled lenders and potential business partners about his net worth by producing “Statements of Financial Condition” that included a number of errors about his financial holdings.
Attorney General William Barr said it would take, at a minimum, weeks before lawmakers can see an edited version of the report, making it clear that the Justice Department will not meet the April 2 deadline that Democrats set.
Barbara Bush said that by today’s terms, she would no longer classify herself as a Republican. With President Trump’s rise, she saw a party she could not continue to support.
