School and Congress are out for the summer, but congressional August recess is actually a relatively recent tradition. Lawmakers are sometimes given a grief for their month-long break from Washington, but there was a time when they disagreed on whether to take a summer break at all.
The leaked transcripts of President Donald Trump's phone calls with the Mexican President and the Australian Prime Minister are a stunning testament to how raw, politically speaking, Trump was when he entered office in January.
A top Senate Republican unveiled a border and immigration enforcement bill on Thursday with fellow GOP lawmakers that would invest $15 million over four years in border security and help fund President Donald Trump's wall.
The White House and Pentagon are pushing back against a report that President Donald Trump is weighing firing Gen. John Nicholson, his top commander in Afghanistan.
Trump is set to meet with his national security adviser, and full transcripts of his phone calls with Mexico and Australia have been released. Follow along here for updates.
Russia and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are attempting to entice US-backed rebels based at the At Tanf garrison in southern Syria to switch sides, US officials tell CNN, in an apparent bid to oust the coalition from a strategic piece of real estate that is seen as crucial to Syria and Iran's long-term interests in the region.
President Donald Trump's proposed legislation to curb the level of legal immigration to the United States by instituting a skills-based immigration system will not benefit the American economy, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, said Thursday.
The United States and Russia are plunging deeper into their worst crisis since the Cold War, with politics in both nations outpacing the capacity of either government to mitigate the danger.
The White House acknowledgment that President Donald Trump "weighed in" on his son's statement about a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign could add a new dimension to the special counsel's investigation, including any potential effort to pursue obstruction of justice charges.
President Donald Trump signed into law Wednesday morning legislation that levies new sanctions against Russia and restricts Trump's own ability to ease sanctions in place against Moscow, a White House official said.
President Donald Trump has long indicated that he'd be willing to meet face-to-face with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- a proposition that has garnered harsh criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and even been downplayed at times by the members of the administration.
Lawmakers reacted angrily to reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is not spending money at his disposal to counter Russian disinformation and propaganda put out by violent extremists.
The Trump administration is readying resources in the Justice Department's civil rights division for the purpose of investigating and litigating "race-based discrimination" in US higher education, potentially with the aim of protecting white applicants from discrimination through affirmative action, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
