President Trump said Tuesday that he likes “conflict” among his White House aides. The comment, part of an effort to push back against reports that the West Wing was dysfunctional, followed a tweet earlier in the day suggesting that he still had some staffing changes to make.
Under pressure at home and abroad over his announcement of sanctions on imported aluminum and steel, President Trump gave indications Tuesday that there may be flexibility about how they are applied to some countries.
Beto O'Rourke, a congressman from El Paso, is hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, and the enthusiasm in the race could be a harbinger of the election atmosphere this fall.
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Trump who pleaded guilty late last year to lying to the FBI, is selling his Virginia home in order to pay his mounting legal bills, according to a report Tuesday.
Billions of dollars in federal spending and the future of political power in Congress and the White House could be at stake over a simple yet controversial question that’s proposed for the 2020 Census: Are you a United States citizen?
Sen. Thad Cochran’s unexpected resignation this week is cranking up the pressure for Republicans in Mississippi as the 2018 primary approaches—leaving the real possibility for a Democrat to represent the state in the U.S. Senate for the first time in almost 30 years.
Enacted in 1939, the Hatch Act bars federal employees from participating in political activity while on duty, in the workplace or in an official capacity.
A Democratic mayor’s warning to illegal immigrants of an incoming ICE raid in northern California may have led to a number of illegal immigrants with violent and sex-related convictions evading capture and deportation.
A federal agency informed the White House on Tuesday that it has determined top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act on two separate occasions while discussing last year’s contentious Alabama Senate race on television.
The Trump administration is dismantling an Obama-era program that, in part, allows for hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants to remain in the country.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, in a startling downfall, pleaded guilty to misappropriating more than $10,000 in city funds to carry on a scandalous two-year affair with her bodyguard and was expected to resign at a press conference later Tuesday.
The mayor of Tennessee’s largest city, under fire for admitting to a scandalous two-year affair with her bodyguard, is expected to announce her resignation at a press conference Tuesday, local media reported.
President Trump taunted Democratic lawmakers Tuesday over their failure to get a deal on the Obama-era program granting protection to illegal immigrants to the country as children, slamming their alleged inaction and asking: “Where are you?”
The former Trump campaign aide who became a television spectacle Monday in a series of bizarre news interviews -- vowing to defy a grand jury subpoena and daring Special Counsel Robert Mueller to “arrest me” -- is now toning down his dramatic rhetoric.
