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More than 15 years after it accepted its first war on terror detainees, Guantanamo Bay is once again at the center of a political firestorm, as President Donald Trump is learning, like his predecessor, that making big changes in US detention policy is harder than it looks.

Senate Republicans were largely buoyed Thursday by the release of a House Republican tax bill, a key step toward passing tax reform, one of their top legislative goals.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill into law setting up a commission to honor the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth next year.

Nestled in a bucolic neighborhood just outside Washington, DC, diplomatic security personnel are working around the clock to protect some of the country's most sensitive information from cyber attackers, their already daunting task further complicated by the State Department's aging and obsolete technology.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Myanmar later this month to push for an end to the violence that has plagued the country's northern Rakhine state in recent months, the State Department announced Thursday.

Paul Manafort shouldn't be held under house arrest, his attorneys argued in a court filing Thursday.

House Republicans are expected to finally roll out their tax bill Thursday, but not without some reservations from rank-and-file members.

Jerome Powell, a Fed governor since 2012 and former Treasury official under the Bush administration, will replace current chairwoman Janet Yellen.

The Japanese police department in Tokyo has put together an all-female squad of officers for specific assignment to first lady Melania Trump and other visiting female dignitaries, including presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, according to a report. The fist lady arrives in Japan on Sunday for a two-day visit with President Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump landed in Toyko on Thursday.

US prosecutors have objected to an entry request for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who became known for attending the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower.

Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House science committee, announced Thursday he will not seek reelection for his seat in the 21st District of Texas.

Republican senators ruled out any plan to tie immigration policy to the year-end spending bill after a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday.

President Trump's Twitter declaration that the man charged with killing eight pedestrians and bikers in New York City "SHOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY" has ignited controversy over whether Trump could have jeopardized the government's legal case.

My 14-hour flight from New York to Seoul was just the beginning. The next morning, my CNN crew and I found ourselves strapped into the Navy's C-2 COD (carrier onboard delivery) aircraft. Only this plane doesn't exactly come with peanuts and a Coke. Instead, I was tethered to a metal seat by four seat belts and facing backwards, helmet on, with only two tiny windows in the entire cabin.

Earlier this week, I argued that Donald Trump is more pundit than president -- especially when it comes to handling major events or tragedies.

President Donald Trump's pick for the top job at NASA, Rep. James Bridenstine, faced blistering critique at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, with Democrats questioning his fitness for the role.

The House Republican tax bill gives a detailed look at how House Republicans want to reshape the tax code.

The State Department began revoking the passports of convicted child sex offenders this week, in order to comply with a law passed last year. Those affected will have to apply for new passports, which will be marked to indicate their conviction.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist is imperiled over his connections to the ongoing Russia probe, sources tell CNN.