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Patrick Stewart is unphasered by President Donald Trump. In fact, the "Star Trek" captain wants to become a US citizen so he can "fight" his presidency.

Rep. Mike Bost said Thursday he regretted invoking a racially insensitive term and reference to explain why he would not hold in-person town hall events.

The first weeks of a US presidency are usually filled with optimism -- a fresh face with a clean slate settles into the White House and maps out a vision for the next four years.

A Republican senator from West Virginia is insisting that Medicaid expansion be preserved in the GOP's Obamacare replacement proposal.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul marched to the House side of the Capitol Thursday morning, knocked on a locked door and demanded to see a copy of the House's bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which he believed was being kept under lock and key.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will recuse himself from any existing or future investigations related to President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign amid an ever-growing chorus of demands for him to step aside.

It's the tale of two Tillersons.

Senior Democrats have called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after it emerged he failed to disclose two meetings with Russia's ambassador to Washington during the US election campaign.

During the 2016 campaign, Jeff Sessions called on then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to recuse herself from the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and to appoint a special prosecutor in the case.

In the weeks after President Donald Trump's victory, European governments adopted a wait-and-see attitude, telling envoys not to react to every presidential tweet and watching for actual action.

Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday night, arguing his recusal from Trump campaign investigations is not enough, that he should "resign immediately" and suggested that Sessions should go to jail.

Where better to tout a military spending hike than from the deck of the most expensive ship ever built?

President Donald Trump intends to fix crumbling roads and bridges, in part, with a plan that hearkens back to Sarah Palin's slogan: "Drill, baby, drill."

The US is working to locate and monitor hundreds of people, or "contacts," found as part of the intelligence retrieved during the raid last month in Yemen targeting an al Qaeda affiliate, several US officials told CNN.

First lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Thursday, meeting and reading to children in the pediatrics unit playroom.

Trump gave his first address to Congress. Sessions did not disclose meetings with Russian ambassador. And we're still waiting on a new travel ban. The latest from President Trump's sixth week in office.

An independent counsel's investigation very nearly brought down a Democratic president nearly 20 years ago. Bear that in mind when reading the news that the top Senate Democrat is calling to potentially reinstate the lapsed office under which Republicans launched the Whitewater investigation.

President Donald Trump's transition team, days before he took office, nixed plans for an orientation class that would have prepared political appointees and White House staff for a series of ethical and legal issues, documents provided to CNN show.

Capitol Hill has been dominated Thursday by a disagreement over what, if any, steps Attorney General Jeff Sessions should take after it surfaced that he spoke with the Russian ambassador to the US during last year's campaign.