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Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier quit President Trump's manufacturing council on Monday after Trump failed to condemn white supremacists.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday that the Trump administration was "very, very close" to finalizing its new strategy in Afghanistan, but warned it had not been settled yet.

"The United States has many options" for Venezuela, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday in Colombia.

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Monday that the White House had still not provided policy guidance on transgender persons serving in the military, adding that they were still studying the issue, raising the prospect that transgender service members may be allowed to continue to serve despite President Donald Trump's July announcement of a ban via twitter.

Sen. John McCain on Monday slammed recent attacks on White House national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and called on President Donald Trump to speak out against the right-wing campaign targeting the top adviser.

After the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, controversy erupted over what President Donald Trump did not say. Last year, in another incident involving white nationalists, the focus became what he did say.

North Korea may have used illicit trade networks to purchase powerful rocket engines once produced by a Ukrainian factory that was instrumental to the Soviet missile program -- a claim that could help explain the surprising leap forward in long-range missile capability demonstrated by the rogue nation in recent months, according to new analysis from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Even the walls of Donald Trump's private New Jersey golf club weren't enough to shield the President from the withering criticism he endured for 48 hours this weekend.

The city of San Francisco and the state of California are suing the Trump administration over its continued pressure on sanctuary cities, adding to a growing number of court challenges to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.

It took President Donald Trump less than an hour to denounce Merck Pharma's Ken Frazier on Twitter after the executive resigned from the President's Manufacturing Council.

President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are making a major last-minute push to save Sen. Luther Strange in Tuesday's three-way primary here.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that the FBI arrested an Oklahoma man on Saturday for allegedly trying to detonate what he thought was a vehicle bomb at a bank in downtown Oklahoma City.

Following the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, many Republican lawmakers went farther than the President in condemning the violence and actions that took place and urged him to call out white supremacy by name.

President Donald Trump directly condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis in a statement from the White House Monday afternoon.

On Sunday an Iranian drone flew in an "unsafe and unprofessional manner" close to a US aircraft carrier in the central Persian Gulf, according to the US Navy.

Donald Trump's presidency has been marked by low moments. The false assertions regarding the size of his inauguration crowd. The testy phone calls with longtime allies. The false claim that Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign. The botched rollout of the so-called "travel ban." Tweets attacking everyone from his attorney general to Mika Brzezinksi.

CNN will host an exclusive town hall August 21 featuring House Speaker Paul Ryan in Racine, Wisconsin, CNN announced on Monday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed Monday that the Justice Department will "take the most vigorous action" to protect Americans against "racism and bigotry" in the aftermath of the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.