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Hours after a federal appeals court issued a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump's revised travel ban last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump's communications director quit, his press secretary huffed and his spat with the German Chancellor boiled.

The US military began arming Syrian Kurds fighting ISIS Tuesday, in a move likely to anger America's long-time ally Turkey.

Stop the average person on the street and ask them if they know the name "Mike Dubke" and you are almost certain to get a blank stare.

Russian government officials discussed having potentially "derogatory" information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source.

Will he or won't he?

President Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with the inability of his White House to move beyond the story of Russia's meddling into the 2016 election and possible collusion with his campaign. He is openly considering a staff shuffle among his senior aides. His polling numbers are at record lows for this stage of a presidential tenure.

President Donald Trump's vow to massively rebuild the US armed forces comes with an interesting wrinkle in his first budget request: a call to close military bases.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a case concerning whether Ohio's method of removing names from its voter rolls violates federal law.

President Donald Trump has never been in politics before. (You may have heard that a time or two over the last 18 months.) And he's not terribly interested in learning the ways in which Washington works.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans Tuesday to change Senate rules to a simple majority vote in order to speed up passage of health care and tax reform bills through Congress.

Texas ended its contentious legislative session Monday as protesters packed into the state Capitol over a new ban on sanctuary cities, and lawmakers erupted into a heated argument with alleged death threats on the House floor.

President Donald Trump's odyssey through Europe and the Middle East fulfilled a more narrow political focus for the reeling White House: It was a nine-day distraction from the dominant narrative of a presidency under siege.

White House communications director Mike Dubke is leaving the White House.

The world witnessed another ground-breaking use of GIF diplomacy on Tuesday, when the official Twitter account for the country of Ukraine mocked the official account for Russia with a Simpsons GIF.

President Donald Trump's daughter faced backlash after her lifestyle brand's Twitter account -- "IvankaTrumpHQ" -- gave what some considered an insensitive Memorial Day holiday tip.

Instead of celebrating a victory lap after his trip, Trump returns to a raging controversy over Russia, writes Gloria Borger

On Monday, at the end of the Texas legislative session, things took a very nasty turn. Protesters unhappy with a bill passed through the legislature that would ban so-called "sanctuary cities" stormed the chamber, forcing a tense standoff that led to an altercation -- the details of which are unclear -- between Republican and Democratic legislators. Texas Tribune editor Emily Ramshaw witnessed all of it. Our conversation about the fight -- as well as what else went on and whether there's going to be a special session -- conducted via email and lightly edited for flow is below.

Two US Navy aircraft carriers are expected to begin training together as soon as Wednesday in the Sea of Japan, for a few days in what US military officials say may be interpreted by North Korea as a signal of a more aggressive US military posture.