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President Donald Trump is traveling to Long Island Friday to discuss efforts to combat the violent MS-13 gang, which his administration has made a key talking point in its push for a hard-line immigration agenda.

President Donald Trump woke up Friday with a key campaign promise defeated and his staff in open warfare, the elements combining into a storm of chaos for a man who, six months into the job, is swiftly realizing the limits of his power.

Anthony Scaramucci will not draw a White House salary, he told CNN Friday.

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Maryland Rep. John Delaney on Friday became the first Democrat to announce he would run for president in 2020.

The Treasury Department placed sanctions Friday on six Iran-based satellite companies following a recent Iranian rocket launch that State Department officials warn breached a UN Security Council resolution.

There's a reason why Sen. John McCain was eager to pivot to the annual defense spending bill in the early hours of the morning right after he had killed the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort: Three congressional sources told CNN the Arizona Republican is planning to return to Arizona to start cancer treatment Monday.

Hey Internet, stop sending sex jokes to @SteveBannon! He's not the White House chief strategist. He's just some Scottish guy, valiantly fielding your misplaced Twitter hate.

Sen. John McCain was the focus of much media attention this week when he dramatically returned to Washington following recent brain surgery and cast the decisive vote scuttling GOP efforts to pass a health care plan early Friday morning.

By now, the events related to Republicans' plans for health care early Friday morning have reverberated across Washington. Three GOP senators voted down a so-called "skinny repeal" plan, a devastating blow to President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.

The top homeland security Republican in the House unveiled a border security bill Friday that would codify President Donald Trump's border wall, boost resources for Border Patrol and authorize the National Guard and Defense Department to provide support to those efforts.

Artwork by the man who made famous "The Art of the Deal" just earned a pretty lucrative deal of its own.

Russia's Foreign Ministry demanded Friday that the United States cut the number of diplomatic staff it has in Russia and said it would seize two US diplomatic properties, in a sharp response to a new sanctions bill passed by the US Congress a day earlier.

"Mr. McCain."

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can't shepherd President Donald Trump's agenda through the Senate, he should be replaced, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, said Friday.

For the last seven years, Republicans found common purpose in two simple words: "Repeal Obamacare."

The Senate dealt a serious blow to Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare early this morning. Follow along for live coverage of how Washington is reacting: