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It's not every day that a reporter lands an interview with the nation's top defense official. But two high school journalists did just that.

The House on Friday passed a massive defense policy bill that would launch a new "Space Corps" over the objections of the White House and the Pentagon.

House Republicans are considering combining a North Korean sanctions bill with the Senate's Russia sanctions legislation, an idea that drew sharp criticism from Democrats.

As turmoil brews back at the White House, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump jetted out of Washington Wednesday, escaping the heat -- literally and figuratively -- to attend the annual Sun Valley, Idaho, summit of media, tech and finance moguls, put on by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Our weekly roundup of the news, notes and chatter about the prospects for the next Democratic presidential race:

Missouri Republican state Rep. Paul Curtman said Thursday that he was launching an exploratory committee, a move that allows him to begin raising money for a potential Senate campaign.

President Donald Trump is open to his eldest son testifying before Congress to address questions about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump is set to take questions from reporters in Paris amid a swirl of controversy over his oldest son's meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said Friday that she doesn't know if the RNC can legally cover the legal costs for President Donald Trump's administration in the ongoing Russia investigations.

President Donald Trump told reporters he changed the subject with Russian President Vladimir Putin after pressing him repeatedly about the country's role in meddling in the 2016 US election.

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger used a Friday morning appearance on CNN's "New Day" to say he would "absolutely not" take a meeting offered to him by a foreign government during an election.

The Trump administration is working with two senators on a bill that would restrict and revamp some of the legal avenues for immigrating to the United States, sources confirm to CNN

Some world leaders have decided that when dealing with President Donald Trump, flattery will get you everywhere.

The digital director of President Donald Trump's campaign, Brad Parscale, said Friday he had accepted an invitation to testify before the House intelligence committee's Russia investigation.

Big Boi is back and booming with new music and a message to politicians, particularly Democrats, in America: You cannot continue to ignore the will of the people.

Former President Jimmy Carter grew dehydrated and was taken for observation Thursday after "working in the hot sun" in Canada, Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford said in a statement, adding that the 39th president is "okay."

President Donald Trump's saga of awkward handshakes continues.

In a victory for challengers of the Trump administration's travel ban, a federal court judge late Thursday agreed once again to partially halt the ban of certain foreign nationals from six predominately Muslim countries on a nationwide basis -- a direct rebuke the government's attempt to limit the close family members allowed in the US.