Just five weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have already proven to be major headaches for the new President.
Military commanders are discussing speeding up the authorization of counterterrorism missions by allowing the Pentagon or even field commanders to approve some of them rather than the White House, US defense officials told CNN.
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized the White House on Wednesday night after Kellyanne Conway retweeted an allegation that Wasserman Schultz did not stand or clap during a standing ovation for the widow of a slain Navy SEAL during President Donald Trump's address to Congress.
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham both ended a CNN town hall wiping away tears Wednesday night, coming as the two leading Republican foreign policy hawks explained their close, years-long friendship.
Ex-presidents tend to recede from public view, particularly when they leave office -- as George W. Bush did -- with a Gallup approval rating hovering around 30%.
Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer defended his comment Wednesday that the Democratic women who wore white to President Donald Trump's joint address were "poorly" dressed, telling CNN that they looked "silly" and that he didn't buy their argument that it was done in honor of the suffrage movement.
The House intelligence committee announced Wednesday it will examine any communications between Russian officials and political campaigns, the identities of who leaked information about Russia's interference in the 2016 elections and the government's response.
President Donald Trump's promise to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure won applause Tuesday night in his first joint address to Congress, but has added to growing concerns on Capitol Hill about how he -- and lawmakers -- will pay for it.
When President Donald Trump stood before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, he declared he would soon send them "a budget that rebuilds the military" and "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had a similar reaction to President Donald Trump's talk of a grand immigration reform compromise: We'll believe that when we see it.
President Donald Trump's administration is moving gingerly in filling the hundreds of open US ambassador positions, a pace that is surprising to some of the very people who are seeking appointments.
The confirmation path for President Donald Trump's pick to head the powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hit a minor snag Wednesday when not enough senators -- some from each party -- showed up at a Senate Finance Committee session to vote on sending her nomination to the Senate floor for a final vote.
Facing intense backlash from conservative detractors, House Republican leaders' efforts to sell their vision of repealing and replacing Obamacare was well underway Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
President Donald Trump used his joint address to Congress on Tuesday to call attention to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants -- inviting guests affected by such crimes and describing a new office he has ordered created to report them.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed a joint session of Congress to outline his legislative agenda, and CNN's Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims.
President Donald Trump nailed the performance art during his first address to Congress Tuesday night. But turning his solid reviews into tangible policy victories will be a lot more complicated and test more than his showmanship.
Critics are seizing on the Trump administration's decision to delay the issuance of a revised travel ban, saying it undermines the ban's national security rationale.
President Donald Trump confused many Tuesday in a meeting with state attorneys general when he suggested that recent threats made against the Jewish community might have been committed "to make others look bad" and that in terms of the threats, "the reverse can be true."
