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President Donald Trump delivered a Thursday afternoon speech promoting the White House's "Energy Week" on a day largely overshadowed by a series of disparaging tweets aimed at MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski.

Donald Trump's tweet Thursday attacking MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski is just the latest in a long line of disparaging jabs he has hurled at prominent women.

Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that he will have a new chief of staff.

President Donald Trump will arrive in Hamburg one week from Thursday to face Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking office.

Republican lawmakers were caught off-guard by President Donald Trump's personal attack on "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski Thursday, with several saying the remarks were unbecoming of his office.

At a $35,000-per-seat fundraiser, Republican donors likely expected a rousing speech from the 45th President of the United States, who was headlining the event for his victory fund and the Republican National Committee at his own Trump International Hotel on Wednesday evening. And two sources who attended the event told CNN that he lived up to expectations.

Ahead of President Donald Trump's first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week at the G20 summit, the Senate is planning to pass for a second time a Russia sanctions package that had stalled on Capitol Hill, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said Thursday.

Jane Sanders, the wife of the Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate, has been in the news of late -- and not for good reasons. In late April, VTDigger, a non-profit reporting site in Vermont, broke the news that the FBI was potentially conducting an investigation related to her stewardship of Burlington College in the 2000s. No allegations of wrongdoing have been made by authorities against the Sanders.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley cheered cuts to the UN's peacekeeping budget Wednesday, adding that "we're only getting started."

The former chief of staff to Special Counsel Robert Mueller is in talks to possibly join President Donald Trump's legal team, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse blasted President Donald Trump Thursday over his attacks against "Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, calling the President's social media behavior not "normal."

The US military has seen no new activity near the chemical weapons installations at the Shayrat Airbase in Syria in the last 24 hours, two US officials told CNN.

It can't be overlooked that being President won't stop Donald Trump from being a Twitter troll and yet his wife wants to make combating cyberbullying a focus of her time in the White House.

America's NATO allies in Europe and Canada will increase defense spending by 4.3% in 2017, according to official NATO statistics released Thursday.

A high-profile and powerful man takes to social media -- where he has tens of millions of followers -- to allege a prominent woman was "bleeding badly" after a plastic surgery operation.

It's a long-distance feud, transmitted over the airwaves and on social media, that's now devolved well beyond a small political spat.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was cut off in the midst of his remarks to a Berlin economic conference hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party ahead of the G20 conference the country is hosting next week.

Republican Sen. Dean Heller is having discussions with Senate leaders about the GOP health care bill that he opposes -- but for now, he doesn't want to show his cards.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire voiced his opposition Thursday to the current Senate health care bill to repeal Obamacare, citing concerns that cuts to Medicaid expansion would hurt his state's ability to deal with the opioid crisis.