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A handful of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees' confirmation votes were postponed Monday, including Treasury Department nominee Steven Mnuchin, Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price and Small Business Administration nominee Linda McMahon.

Major League Baseball has ruled that the St. Louis Cardinals have to hand over their top two draft picks and pay the Houston Astros $2 million after Chris Correa, the team's former director of scouting was found guilty of hacking the rival team's player roster.

From the White House: Statement on the Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General

At her confirmation hearing in 2015, former Attorney General Sally Yates was grilled by Sen. Jeff Sessions about the position.

Are you ready for some football? Or, more accurately, are you ready for some questions possibly related to football?

Ben Affleck will still be under the cowl, but not behind the camera.

Samantha Bee is throwing a party and everyone not going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner is invited.

Miss France, Iris Mittenaere, is crowned Miss Universe 2017 during the 65th Miss Universe pageant.

A couple is forced to put their lives on hold after President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. CNN's Becky Anderson reports.

President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night after she refused to defend his immigration order and touched off a major drama in the opening days of his presidency.

Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump's executive order curbing immigration in a statement on Monday, backing protesters who have taken to the nation's airports to express their displeasure with Trump's action on Friday.

NATO members flexed their military muscle in Russia's backyard Monday, as allied battle ships trekked toward the Black Sea while American tank fire echoed across Polish plains.  

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Monday the Justice Department's decision not to defend President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees, calling the order unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump's decision to reorganize the National Security Council in a way that removes the director of intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from always attending the principals' committee is "stone cold crazy," former National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday.

The White House released a statement saying acting Attorney General Sally Yates was released of her duties for "refusing to enforce a legal order." CNN's Sara Murray reports.

World leaders and prominent figures have blasted US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States as divisive, illegal, insulting and discriminatory.

President Donald Trump's second full week comes after a chaotic weekend sparked by the executive order temporarily halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. Protesters and lawyers jammed US airports to protest the order and help those who were detained. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday any US diplomats who don't agree with the order can "either get with the program or they can go."

Senate Democrats are weighing whether to avoid an all-out war to block President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court pick, instead considering delaying that battle for a future nomination that could shift the ideological balance of the court, sources say.

The Senate voted 56-43 on Monday to end a Democratic filibuster of President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, allowing a final confirmation vote for the former ExxonMobil CEO to take place this week.