As the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the US in more than a decade took aim at Texas, President Donald Trump's White House engaged in an age-old Washington tradition: the Friday news dump.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Friday that he is "100% confident" that the government will raise the federal debt ceiling, a day after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the Republican-led Congress via Twitter for not having accomplished it already.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a memorandum directing the military not to move forward with a plan to allow transgender individuals to join, a senior White House official said.
Despite assurances just four months ago that undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children should "rest easy," President Donald Trump is now considering scrapping future admissions to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
President Donald Trump is facing down the first major hurricane of his administration well aware of the potential of monster storms to make -- or break -- a political career.
When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned President Donald Trump's "fitness to be in this office" after the President's wild speech in Phoenix Tuesday night, it was likely only a matter of time before the President aimed his Twitter ire at the retired general.
National Economic Council director and key White House official Gary Cohn has offered a critical assessment of President Donald Trump's handling of the violence and protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he said caused him "distress."
As Hurricane Harvey swirls through the Gulf of Mexico, speeding toward the Texas coast, it could also bring a critical test of President Donald Trump's abilities as commander-in-chief.
The US doesn't anticipate intervening militarily in the Venezuela crisis "in the near future," national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said he hadn't ruled out such an option.
The Pentagon is staring down weeks and possibly months of budget uncertainty that's shaping up to be the most turbulent budget drama for the military in years.
News broke Friday morning that preliminary conversations have begun about the possibility of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) running as a unity ticket for president in 2020.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper have entertained the idea of forming a unity presidential ticket to run for the White House in 2020, a source involved the discussions tells CNN.
Republicans should have no trouble not only holding their Senate majority in the 2018 elections but growing it. The party is defending only nine seats as compared to 24 for Democrats -- including 10 in states Trump won in 2016 (and five he won by double digits).
The mysterious sonic attack on US diplomats stationed in Cuba is raising questions about weapons that sound more like something out of James Bond than reality.
While President Donald Trump's incendiary tweets and unorthodox behavior dominates headlines, well-heeled conservative groups and lobbyists are trying to focus their energy elsewhere, spending significant resources to push through what could be the most important legislative goal of Trump's first year: Tax reform.
If you knew anything about Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, it was that he was going to build a wall on our southern border-- and that Mexico was going to pay for it.
The Transportation Security Administration is reviewing its screening procedures for cargo flown into and within the United States because of concerns that potential security vulnerabilities could be exploited by terrorists, a US official told CNN.
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