Donald Trump signed a proclamation today (March 25) recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, overturning 50 years of US precedent and defying international law on sovereign borders.
Donald Trump’s reelection prospects may have just gotten a little brighter.
Donald Trump and his campaign did not “conspire or coordinate” with the Russian government in its attempts to influence the 2016 election, according to a Department of Justice summary of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report, and there is not enough evidence to charge him with obstruction of justice.
Within minutes of the Department of Justice’s announcement that FBI special counsel Robert Mueller had sent a report on his two-year investigation to the US attorney general, politicians, civil rights groups, and ordinary citizens were clamoring for it to be made public.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has handed his report about his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election to US attorney general William Barr, the Department of Justice said today (March 22).
Voters who made up solid portions of Donald Trump’s 2016 base may be souring on his presidency.
The Hall of Flags at the US Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington, DC looks a bit like the home of a very upscale Renaissance fair.
Beto O’Rourke raised $6.1 million in the 24 hours after he announced he was joining the 2020 presidential race, edging out Bernie Sanders for the highest one-day total announced so far by any Democratic candidate.
Donald Trump dispatched his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to the US political talk-show circuit yesterday (March 18) to defend him after similarities were widely noted between Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric and the stated motives of the man charged with killing 50 people in New Zealand mosques.
Updated at 3pm EDT with an additional DHS statement.
The Republican-controlled US Senate just joined the House of Representatives to block Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the US border using money seized from the Pentagon.
Donald Trump thrust himself into the center of the Boeing 737 Max crisis in the US, initiating multiple phone calls with the plane manufacturer and US officials responsible for its oversight as a decision was being made on whether to ground the planes, people briefed on the calls told Quartz.
How much does Boeing Group, the US’s largest exporter, a top defense contractor, and key component of America’s most popular stock index, influence the federal government’s decision-making?
The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 planes “until further notice,” Donald Trump told reporters at the White House today (March 13).
Updated March 13 at 9pm EDT with FAA statement.
The cause of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people is still being investigated but similarities to the Boeing 737 Max 8’s flight path to that of Lion Air flight 610, which plunged into the sea off Indonesia last year, have been noted by air-safety experts, airline regulators, and worried passengers.
Bill Shine, the White House communications director, will be leaving to join Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign as a senior advisor, the Trump administration said today.
It’s no secret that US courts regularly dispense one type of justice for the white, wealthy, and well-connected, and another type for everyone else.
Ivanka Trump was a star guest at this year’s Gridiron Dinner, the invitation-only white-tie tradition with roots in the late 1800s, that pairs the Washington bureau chiefs of the most prominent US news outlets with powerful politicians and White House officials.
The US government is systematically identifying and monitoring journalists who cover immigration, civil rights attorneys, and protestors who demonstrate against president Donald Trump, according to two new reports.
US Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirsten Nielsen was questioned for three hours by members of Congress Wednesday (March 6) about the Trump administration policy that separated thousands of kids from their parents at the US’s southern border.
The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation today (March 4) into the “alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump, his associates, and members of his Administration”
The slate of Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election, vast and growing, includes many current and former members of Congress.
Donald Trump’s promised “very productive summit” with Kim Jong Un collapsed before the two leaders even got to lunch today (Feb. 28) —despite the fact that the White House had gone as far as planning a signing ceremony for the afternoon.
