Setting up a likely legal fight with the Trump administration, Washington has become the first state to enact its own net-neutrality requirements after U.S. regulators repealed Obama-era rules designed to keep the internet an even playing field.
White House national economic council director Gary Cohn will resign from his post, the White House confirmed Tuesday, in yet another high-profile departure from the Trump administration in recent weeks.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, in a startling downfall, pleaded guilty to misappropriating more than $10,000 in city funds to carry on a scandalous two-year affair with her bodyguard and was expected to resign at a press conference later Tuesday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Rep. Trey Gowdy on Tuesday demanded the appointment of a special counsel to investigate “conflicts of interest” and decisions “made and not made” by current and former Justice Department officials in 2016 and 2017, noting that “the public interest requires” the action.
From the White House chief of staff to the FBI director, from leaving for a new job to learning of his firing from a television, here’s a running list of those who have left the Trump administration.
President Trump said Tuesday that he likes “conflict” among his White House aides. The comment, part of an effort to push back against reports that the West Wing was dysfunctional, followed a tweet earlier in the day suggesting that he still had some staffing changes to make.
Under pressure at home and abroad over his announcement of sanctions on imported aluminum and steel, President Trump gave indications Tuesday that there may be flexibility about how they are applied to some countries.
Beto O'Rourke, a congressman from El Paso, is hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, and the enthusiasm in the race could be a harbinger of the election atmosphere this fall.
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Trump who pleaded guilty late last year to lying to the FBI, is selling his Virginia home in order to pay his mounting legal bills, according to a report Tuesday.
Billions of dollars in federal spending and the future of political power in Congress and the White House could be at stake over a simple yet controversial question that’s proposed for the 2020 Census: Are you a United States citizen?
Sen. Thad Cochran’s unexpected resignation this week is cranking up the pressure for Republicans in Mississippi as the 2018 primary approaches—leaving the real possibility for a Democrat to represent the state in the U.S. Senate for the first time in almost 30 years.
Enacted in 1939, the Hatch Act bars federal employees from participating in political activity while on duty, in the workplace or in an official capacity.
A Democratic mayor’s warning to illegal immigrants of an incoming ICE raid in northern California may have led to a number of illegal immigrants with violent and sex-related convictions evading capture and deportation.
A federal agency informed the White House on Tuesday that it has determined top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act on two separate occasions while discussing last year’s contentious Alabama Senate race on television.