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President Donald Trump signed off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain they weren't communicating with reporters by text message or through encrypted apps, multiple sources confirmed to CNN on Monday.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced their special guests for his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump noted with some exasperation Monday the complexity of the nation's health laws, which he's vowed to reform as part of a bid to scrap Obamacare.

An early glimpse at President Donald Trump's first budget proposal offers the clearest blueprint yet of how he plans to remake the nation.

President Donald Trump outlined some very broad strokes of his budget proposal during remarks in Washington Monday.

A former Bush administration attorney general defended the Trump administration Monday as it faces criticism for asking the FBI to knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed the Academy Awards' "Best Picture" mix-up on Hollywood's misguided focus on politics.

Bill Owens, the father of the Navy SEAL killed in a late-January raid in Yemen, leveled biting criticism at the White House and called for an investigation into his son's death in a news story published Sunday.

Rep. Darrell Issa doubled down on statements he made over the weekend urging for an independent investigation of communications between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russians known to US intelligence.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Monday that he has not yet seen any evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign coordinated with Russian officials, but did not rule out the possibility.

More than 120 retired generals signed a letter Monday pushing back on the White House's proposal to make major cuts to diplomacy and development.

President Donald Trump's first budget proposal will look to increase defense and security spending by $54 billion and cut roughly the same amount from non-defense programs, the White House said Monday.

More than two weeks ago -- and less than 30 minutes after a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his travel ban -- President Donald Trump signaled he was poised to act quickly.

President Donald Trump may propose slashing as much as a quarter of the Environmental Protection Agency's budget, two sources tell CNN, a cut that one former EPA official said would be "devastating."

Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told CNN on Monday that he will vote against a draft of the GOP Obamacare repeal bill that was leaked last week.

Multiple Democratic members of Congress have announced their intentions to bring immigrants with them to President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday.

Just a month after watching Republicans take over the White House and keep their control of Congress, the Democratic Party elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as the man to move the party forward.

The Department of Homeland Security is exploring ways to make it easier to hire agents to help fulfill President Donald Trump's ambitious border security plans, the agency confirmed Monday.