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Vice President Mike Pence is known as a loyal foot soldier to the President. But with new revelations about Donald Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign, Pence is ever so cautiously keeping his distance, giving less than a full-throated defense of the younger Trump.

The DACA program, which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, could be in serious jeopardy, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security told lawmakers Wednesday.

While the West Wing continues to be a hotbed of drama and plot-twists, over in the East Wing, the first lady is not only staying above the fray -- she's tired of being tied to it.

The US government has extended its review into whether trade sanctions against Sudan should be repealed, delaying the final decision by three months as the Trump administration considers whether to pursue improved relations first broached in the final days of the Obama administration.

It's become a heavily-debated topic that has now made it to the House floor.

Emin Agalarov is a pop star from Russia who's sold more than one million albums, toured the world, and now finds himself in the middle of a controversy about contact between President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.

House Speaker Paul Ryan dodged a question Wednesday related to Donald Trump Jr.'s emails revealing details of a meeting with a Russian lawyer who purportedly offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, but the Wisconsin Republican said, "it is absolutely unacceptable that Russia -- or any other country" to "meddle in our elections. Period."

Rep. Steve Scalise was transferred out of the intensive care unit Wednesday morning at MedStar Washington Hospital, according to a congressional source familiar with Scalise's condition.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it was "wild" that Donald Trump Jr. was under fire for meeting with a Russian lawyer, taking a swipe at the latest scandal to rock the White House.

What senators hoped would be a clarifying Tuesday turned out to be a chaotic Tuesday.

A former key ally to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation and 500 hours of community service for orchestrating an act of political retribution against a mayor who did not back the governor in his re-election campaign.

Multiple Democratic National Committee officials, former Clinton campaign officials and Democratic sources denied that the Democratic committee or Clinton campaign worked with the government of Ukraine to dig up dirt on Donald Trump and his top aides.

The National Defense Authorization Act is a massive $696 billion defense policy bill that covers everything from F-35 fighter jets to Guantanamo Bay to military pay raises.

President Donald Trump has retreated from the spotlight as his White House is embroiled in yet another scandal after it was revealed that his eldest son met with a woman he was told was "a Russian government attorney" months before the election in hopes of obtaining damaging information on Hillary Clinton's campaign. 

An attorney representing President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that the President was unaware of his oldest son's attempts to obtain information purportedly from Russia during the 2016 election.

Hillary Clinton's former running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, said Donald Trump Jr. may have committed treason when he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer under the pretense of getting dirt on Clinton.

Congress should use money from its food stamp budget and Planned Parenthood funding to pay for a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico, Rep. Steve King said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump defended his son in an early Wednesday morning tweet, telling his millions of followers that Donald Trump Jr. was "open, transparent and innocent" during his interview with Fox News.