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For Donald Trump, all politics is personal. And leaked transcripts of his calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia prove it.

Transcripts from President Donald Trump's calls with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were obtained by The Washington Post Thursday morning.

Newly sworn in FBI Director Christopher Wray gave an indication of the principles that would drive him in his new post, telling agents Wednesday in an email obtained by CNN that facts should be the bedrock of their work.

It's a time-honored tradition: stars descend on Washington for an evening celebrating the great American artist. But this year, things might get a little awkward.

School and Congress are out for the summer, but congressional August recess is actually a relatively recent tradition. Lawmakers are sometimes given a grief for their month-long break from Washington, but there was a time when they disagreed on whether to take a summer break at all.

The leaked transcripts of President Donald Trump's phone calls with the Mexican President and the Australian Prime Minister are a stunning testament to how raw, politically speaking, Trump was when he entered office in January.

A top Senate Republican unveiled a border and immigration enforcement bill on Thursday with fellow GOP lawmakers that would invest $15 million over four years in border security and help fund President Donald Trump's wall.

The White House and Pentagon are pushing back against a report that President Donald Trump is weighing firing Gen. John Nicholson, his top commander in Afghanistan.

Support is gathering behind a bipartisan push to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from potentially being fired by President Donald Trump.

It was a reconciliation accompanied by libation.

Trump is set to meet with his national security adviser, and full transcripts of his phone calls with Mexico and Australia have been released. Follow along here for updates.

Russia and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are attempting to entice US-backed rebels based at the At Tanf garrison in southern Syria to switch sides, US officials tell CNN, in an apparent bid to oust the coalition from a strategic piece of real estate that is seen as crucial to Syria and Iran's long-term interests in the region.

President Donald Trump's proposed legislation to curb the level of legal immigration to the United States by instituting a skills-based immigration system will not benefit the American economy, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, said Thursday.

The United States and Russia are plunging deeper into their worst crisis since the Cold War, with politics in both nations outpacing the capacity of either government to mitigate the danger.

On Wednesday, the White House acknowledged that President Donald Trump told two lies.

The White House acknowledgment that President Donald Trump "weighed in" on his son's statement about a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign could add a new dimension to the special counsel's investigation, including any potential effort to pursue obstruction of justice charges.

More than half of young Syrian refugees don't plan to return home permanently unless the war in their country comes to an end and ISIS is eliminated.

President Donald Trump signed into law Wednesday morning legislation that levies new sanctions against Russia and restricts Trump's own ability to ease sanctions in place against Moscow, a White House official said.

President Donald Trump has long indicated that he'd be willing to meet face-to-face with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- a proposition that has garnered harsh criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and even been downplayed at times by the members of the administration.