US President Donald Trump ignited a row over the use of waterboarding Wednesday after claiming intelligence professionals told him it "absolutely works."
As he progressed from punchline to primary contender, from frontrunner to nominee, and then from seemingly doomed general election candidate to president-elect, Donald Trump has, for all his idiosyncrasies, offered a remarkably consistent package of promises.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he expects the cost of building a wall along the Mexican border to be between $12-$15 billion.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell emphasized Thursday at a Republican retreat in Philadelphia that repealing and replacing Obamacare and tax reform remain the party's top 2017 priorities.
In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, House and Senate Republican leaders stressed the importance of party unity and to avoid intraparty fights that could threaten the GOP hold of Washington.
President Donald Trump has moved quickly against free-trade deals that he says are hurting American workers -- but in the process he risks dismantling a key pillar of US national security.
Derailing a president's choice for the US Supreme Court is difficult. But it has happened eight times in the last half-century, through the kind of Senate combat that led to the 1987 defeat of Robert Bork and administration missteps like the 2005 case of Harriet Miers.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will tell Republican lawmakers that the US and UK can lead the world, as her country readies to pull out of the European Union and seek closer ties with the world's top economy.
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she would "stand ready" to register as Muslim if Donald Trump takes executive action that affects immigrants traveling to the US.
The anti-immigration world was getting antsy, but Wednesday the Trump administration delivered executive orders that lay the groundwork for building that wall and set the stage for more deportations of undocumented immigrants. Those who have not been charged with a crime but are suspected to pose a public safety or national security risk could become targets. And President Trump isn't finished. More immigration-related executive actions are expected on day seven.
President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of gutting US environmental regulations. On week one of his presidency, it's clear he plans to follow through.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said his city will use the courts to fight President Donald Trump's executive order to block federal funding going to "sanctuary cities," following executive action Trump announced Wednesday.
Actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf has been charged with misdemeanor assault and a harassment violation after getting in a scuffle during an anti-Trump rally early Thursday morning, according to New York Police Department spokesman Sgt. Thomas Antonetti,
By Cody Keenan's recollection, President Barack Obama gave 3,577 speeches during his eight years in the White House. And Keenan, his former chief speechwriter, was there for every one of them.
President Donald Trump said he wants to "fight fire with fire" when it comes to stopping terrorism, suggesting that he could be open to bringing back torture because he "absolutely" believes it works.
Employees at the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency -- where career employees have been instructed to cease almost all communications with audiences outside the agency -- are feeling the Trump administration's crackdown on federal agencies more than most, leaving some employees "terrified."
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on immigration and border security, which included his campaign promises of building a wall and substantially stepping up deportations and immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will start to reshape US immigration enforcement policies via executive order, taking his first steps toward fulfilling some of the most contentious pledges that defined his campaign.
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