New details have emerged surrounding Sunday's deadly joint US-United Arab Emirates counterterrorism raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen, shedding light on why the mission happened when it did -- and what went wrong.
Several days before President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, he predicted that "evangelicals, Christians will love my pick."
For those in the White House yearning for a more controlled structure than existed in Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the messy rollout of the executive order restricting travel into the US may have been a gift.
The Senate has approved former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state, filling one more slot on President Donald Trump's national security team.
There was a dramatic scramble across Capitol Hill Wednesday morning as Republicans tried to get President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees approved and Democrats tried to stand in their way, boycotting hearings. Republicans actually changed the Senate rules to move forward. Here's what happened.
President Donald Trump's Supreme Court team whisked nominee Neil Gorsuch to the Capitol Wednesday in a packed day that amounted to one part victory lap and another part listening tour as Republicans try to gauge whether Democrats will attempt a filibuster.
Driven by a base demanding all-out opposition, Democratic senators are promising to turn Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination into a slow-moving battle.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul is meeting with Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss some potential tweaks to the Trump administration's travel ban.
Gregg Phillips, the source for Donald Trump's claim that 3 million fraudulent votes were cast, has made several misleading statements about the groups he runs, VotersTrust and American Solutions.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump doesn't share the opinions of his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, when it comes to Islam.
Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday that Senate Republicans might have to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" of eliminating the filibuster in order to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Sen. Patty Murray, who earlier this week raised plagiarism questions about President Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, appears to have pulled one of her written questions for the nominee from an industry group fact sheet.
The Pentagon's Inspector General has cleared several senior leaders of US Central Command after investigating claims that they falsified intelligence reports on the anti-ISIS campaign to paint a rosier assessment of progress than was warranted.
Former CIA director David Petraeus warned Wednesday that the US should not take the international order for granted, suggesting that it could collapse and benefit US adversaries such as Russia.
