Heather Timmons

As Donald Trump meets with  Kim Jong Un in Vietnam this week, Russian officials will not be in the room. But Russia’s interests are likely to be represented.

It’s hard to know what to expect when the Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un meet in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb. 27-28. The US president has been trying to manage expectations, while his secretary of state Mike Pompeo is promising a “substantial step” toward forcing the North Korean dictator to shed his nuclear-weapons capacity.

Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general, delivered a poignant speech on the fragility of American democracy today (Feb. 21), while stressing the insidious nature of white-collar crime, and the moral necessity of every citizen respecting the law.

Donald Trump is getting a taxpayer-funded barrier built without having to declare a national emergency.

A year ago today, the White House held an emotional public meeting with recent American survivors of gun violence.

Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator, officially joined the 2020 presidential race with a direct attack on Donald Trump.

Donald Trump headed to his private golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, for the second day in a row today (Sunday, Feb. 17).

Patrick Shanahan, the acting US Secretary of Defense, said hours after Donald Trump’s emergency declaration that he could refuse to direct billions of dollars in Pentagon funds Trump is relying on to build a wall on the US’s southern border.

Donald Trump’s rambling press conference Feb. 15 to announce a “national emergency” on the US’s southern border touched on everything from the stock market to his relationship with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator.

Donald Trump will reallocate $6.5 billion from other government programs to pay for 234 miles of steel fencing along the southern border of the US to address what he officially has deemed a national emergency.

This story was updated at 12:25pm US eastern time today (Feb. 15):

Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency over his border-wall dream faces immediate bipartisan legal challenges from the US Congress.

The chair of the House Appropriations Committee has introduced a bill to keep the US government open (pdf) that bumps up the overall Homeland Security budget and includes just $1.4 billion for border barricades.

Brock Long, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through one of America’s most destructive strings of natural disasters, is unexpectedly quitting to spend more time with his family, the agency said yesterday (Feb. 13).

Maria Ressa, founder of the lauded Philippines news site Rappler, was arrested and charged with “cyber libel” today (Feb. 13) in Manila, over a 2012 article that linked a prominent businessman with drug-trafficking.

A House-Senate committee has hammered out a stop-gap funding bill to keep the US government open past Feb. 15 in a deal that would give Donald Trump billions less for border-wall funding than he wanted.

Republicans and Democrats criticized Ilhan Omar, the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, after she tweeted that Republican support for Israel is linked to cash, particularly from the powerful pro-Israel group AIPAC.

Jeff Bezos’s astounding blog post alleging executives from American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker’s publishing operation tried to extort him by using his own photographs is awful news for Donald Trump.

Updated 8:30am EST Feb. 8 with information on Whitaker’s hearing. 

After a bruising two years of referring to Democrats as the “party of crime” and mocking Democratic critics of his often extremist policies, Donald Trump pleaded for their cooperation in his State of the Union address last night (Feb. 5).

A Guatemalan asylum-seeker who was separated from her three children by Donald Trump’s immigration policies will attend tonight’s State of the Union address, as a guest of the first formerly undocumented immigrant ever elected to Congress.

President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address tonight is supposed to focus on “unity.” 

Stacey Abrams, a tax attorney and daughter of a Methodist minister, earned a reputation in Georgia’s state legislature as so fair and detail-oriented that political rivals would bring her their bills to troubleshoot for legal issues.

Donald Trump is spending most of his time in unscheduled “executive time,” watching television, reading newspapers, and making unlogged phone calls, according to a report based on a leaked copy of his daily agenda.