In an extraordinary Oval Office exchange, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. should permit immigrants from βsh--hole countriesβ as he rejected a plan by a bipartisan group of senators that would have changed rules affecting entrants from Africa and Haiti, according to three people briefed on the conversation.
President Donald Trump says he has decided not to come to London to open the new U.S. Embassy, blaming the Obama administration for doing a βbad dealβ to move the diplomatic mission.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at giving Customs and Border Protection agents additional screening devices and other tools to stop the flow of illicit drugs.
Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for Trump who is named in the dossier, says BuzzFeed and several of its staffers defamed him when it published the 35-page document and an accompanying article.
Bargainers seeking a bipartisan immigration accord planned talks as soon as Wednesday as President Donald Trump and leading lawmakers sought to parlay an extraordinary White House meeting into momentum for resolving a politically blistering issue.
President Donald Trump has signed a bill to create a national historic park in Atlanta honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Federal judges ruled Tuesday that North Carolinaβs congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats and must quickly be redone.
President Donald Trumpβs administration is aiming to curb the number of veteran suicides by improving mental health treatment for the high-risk group.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is stepping down as chairman of Breitbart News Network after a public break with President Donald Trump.
Seeking a bipartisan compromise to avoid a government shutdown, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that an immigration deal could be reached in two phases β first by addressing young immigrants and border security with what he called a βbill of love,β then by making comprehensive changes that have long eluded Congress.
The founder of a firm that commissioned a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trumpβs ties to Russia told congressional investigators that its author took it to the FBI because of a concern about βwhether a political candidate was being blackmailed.β
WCCB Charlotte has learned leaders are rethinking plans for a controversial satellite college campus in Waxhaw. Neighbors have been fighting the proposed campus that would be built on land they say was supposed to be for a park.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirms that it is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the country or face deportation.
Trump administration officials and allies are rallying to the presidentβs defense, trying to contain the fallout from an explosive new book that questions Trumpβs fitness for office.
The FBI is investigating whether the Clinton Foundation accepted donations in exchange for political favors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, two people familiar with the probe confirmed Friday.
Two Republican senators have made the first known criminal referral in congressional investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, targeting the author of a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trumpβs ties to Russia.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said.
President Donald Trump is disbanding his controversial voter fraud commission amid infighting, lawsuits and state officialsβ refusal to cooperate.
President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on former top adviser Steve Bannon, responding to a new book that portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child who didnβt actually want to win the White House and quotes Bannon as calling his sonβs contact with a Russian lawyer βtreasonous.β
President Donald Trumpβs former campaign chairman sued special counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department on Wednesday, saying prosecutors had overstepped their bounds by charging him for conduct that he says is unrelated to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
