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Michael Flynn tendered his resignation as national security adviser on Monday night, creating an opening in one of the most important positions in the White House.

US President Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned from his post Monday night amid claims he misled the administration over his communications with Russia before Trump took office.

Amid an often blistering season on Capitol Hill -- where senators have lobbed unprecedented insults at each other and tangled publicly with the administration -- Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware appears to be among the few trying to lower the temperature in the chamber.

President Donald Trump's pick to run the Treasury, former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin, is set for a vote Monday evening, the latest in a string of controversial nomination showdowns that have splintered Congress.

Embattled White House national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday night, two sources tell CNN.

Former GOP congressman David Jolly says President Trump needs to "stop complaining and do his job."

Rep. Jason Chaffetz blamed his harsh reception at a recent town hall on "a paid attempt to bully and intimidate." White House press secretary Sean Spicer called anti-Donald Trump marches and protests "a very paid, AstroTurf-type movement."

Michael Flynn's resignation as national security adviser removes an immediate political headache for the White House but will do little to dispel suspicions about his ties with Russia that now threaten to envelop President Donald Trump's nascent administration.

The Trump administration is asking a Seattle judge to "postpone any further proceedings" in the challenge against the President's travel ban while a larger panel of judges on the 9th Circuit decides whether to rehear the case.

Michael Flynn has no plans to resign and no expectations that he will be fired, a senior administration official told CNN Sunday.

Democrats raised concerns Friday about immigration enforcement actions in recent days -- though immigration officials say that only routine actions targeting criminals were underway.

It may be the great irony of President Donald Trump's passion for tightening up immigration enforcement that his strident positions have made achieving any compromise nearly impossible, effectively dooming chances of actually getting legislation to enhance immigration enforcement in the near term.

In the White House East Room Monday, President Donald Trump held a news conference with the Canadian Prime Minister that was standard and drama-free. But that belied what is going on behind the scenes: a White House in turmoil.

President Donald Trump's patio strategy session at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening is drawing scrutiny for its open-air nature, including aides' use of cell phone flashlights to illuminate potentially sensitive documents.

The Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Michael Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Last week, President Donald Trump reportedly voiced an unfounded claim of voter fraud in New Hampshire, and one of his top aides later repeated the position on national TV.

Four Republican senators have told GOP leadership they are withholding support for President Donald Trump's choice for labor secretary, setting off an intense effort by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and business groups to bring at least two back into the fold so that the nomination does not fail, several sources involved in the effort tell CNN.

President Donald Trump will meet for the first time Monday with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ideological opposite who nonetheless hopes to avoid clashing with his new US counterpart.

Chaos has been a central organizing principle of Donald Trump's young presidency. And from what we know of the White House's inner workings, it applies as much to personnel as policy.

As the Trump administration grapples with the Ninth Circuit's refusal to reinstate the President's travel ban, a federal judge across the country dealt another significant blow to the executive order in Virginia late Monday, writing in her opinion: "Maximum power does not mean absolute power."