President Donald Trump will not declare a decision on whether to pardon former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage defended monuments to the Confederacy in a radio interview on Tuesday, claiming that 7,600 Mainers fought for the South and that the war was initially about land, not slavery.
President Donald Trump's newly unveiled Afghanistan strategy is meant to pressure the Taliban to the negotiating table by making clear there's no way to win on the battlefield, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday.
A self-described "email prankster" who fooled White House officials last month has now seemingly fooled top editors at Breitbart into believing he was Steve Bannon.
The Trump administration has ended a study of the health effects of a common mining technique in Appalachia, which is believed to deposit waste containing toxic minerals in ground waters.
When Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day, it will immediately confront a tough question: Can there be bipartisan agreement on fixing the country's health care system?
The US Treasury Department announced new sanctions Tuesday targeting Chinese and Russian entities that help fund and facilitate North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The big rumor -- emphasis on the word "rumor" -- ahead of President Donald Trump's trip to Phoenix for a campaign rally tonight is that he might issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County.
Vice President Mike Pence offered a defense of Confederate Civil War monuments in an interview on Fox and Friends Tuesday, declaring that he's "someone who believes in more monuments, not less monuments."
Mike Murphy is one of the most high profile -- and longest serving -- Republican political consultants in the country. He's also long been a Never Trump-er -- dating back to his work for Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign. In the wake of Trump's botched response to the violence in Charlottesville, I reached out to Murphy to talk about the where his party goes from here. Our conversation, conducted via email and lightly edited for flow, is below.
An animated discussion lit up the screens of early-morning CNN viewers Tuesday when a panel of Donald Trump voters convened to praise the President's strategy in Afghanistan and -- affectionately -- call him a "troll."
President Donald Trump used a speech ostensibly focused on his decision about the future of America's role in Afghanistan to issue a call for unity and healing in the United States, a clear attempt to patch over the damage caused by his repeated unwillingness to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis following their violent protests in Charlottesville.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell and envoy Jason Greenblatt left Sunday for a Middle East tour that will take them from Gulf states to Israel and the Palestinian territories, a White House official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
As President Donald Trump's trip to Arizona is certain to demonstrate, immigration remains one of the most polarizing issues in American politics. But the central political fault line around the dispute follows a surprising path.
It's hardly a surprise that Steve Bannon declared the Trump presidency -- the one "we fought for and won" -- dead a few hours after he was banished from Trump's White House.
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