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Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will brief a Senate panel Wednesday on the prospects for a new authorization for the war against ISIS.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads to Asia later this week for a regional meeting on security issues, which is expected to be attended by ministers from North Korea, China, South Korea and Japan.

The Trump administration has said it's ready to unleash American military might to back its diplomacy when it comes to preventing North Korea from developing a nuclear missile capable of hitting the United States.

The White House worked with Fox News and a wealthy Republican donor to push a story about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Former Vice President Al Gore has spent years in pursuit of action on climate change, and on Tuesday, he'll take part in a CNN town hall.

The Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to confirm eight of President Donald Trump's picks to help lead the Department of Defense, more than doubling the number of his administration's political appointees at the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the statement released after it was revealed his son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer in 2016, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will waive environmental and other laws and regulations that would impede the first phase of construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border.

A Democrat from Kentucky announced her campaign against current Rep. Andy Barr with a video that is making the rounds on social media.

A self-described "email prankster" in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

The Senate will vote Tuesday on whether to confirm Christopher Wray to be the new FBI director, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced.

Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft seemed to break with President Donald Trump over his announcement last week to ban all transgender personnel from serving in the US military.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the president of a black policing organization that he believed President Donald Trump's comments on Friday urging police to be "rough" on arrested individuals were "done in jest" but "had the opportunity to impact or detract from" community-police relations, Perry Tarrant, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), said Tuesday at a news conference.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday the US is willing to sit down for talks with North Korea, but only if it relinquishes its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Sen. Jeff Flake told CNN Tuesday that politics has turned too destructive -- and he blamed his own Republican Party and President Donald Trump for their roles in that change.

In Donald Trump's administration, the President may be the only person not talking about Russian sanctions and the country's response.

Arizona's Jeff Flake has had enough.

On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked what President Trump meant when he appeared to be advocating a heightened level of rough treatment of criminals in a speech last Friday to police on Long Island.