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President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for "refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States," the White House said.

To outsiders looking in, President Donald Trump's decision to give his chief strategist Steve Bannon a permanent seat with the National Security Council's most senior officials marked the startling elevation of a political adviser to a policy-making role.

Video of Deputy Attorney General confirmation hearing shows senator asking Yates about her responsibility to the President should he require her to execute "unlawful" views."

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is defending his staffers who worked with President Donald Trump's transition team on the controversial travel ban executive order.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve Elaine Chao as secretary of transportation.

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are boycotting the committee votes Tuesday on Steve Mnuchin for Treasury secretary and Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

For Dotty Rhea, a 68-year-old retiree in Savannah, Tennessee, the directive was well warranted.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is slamming President's Trump's travel ban as reckless and "flat anti-American."

As the Trump administration seeks to move on to new issues, protest against his controversial refugee ban continue -- including from a community that supported him significantly during the election.

An executive order protecting federal employees from anti-LGBTQ discrimination that was signed by President Barack Obama in 2014 will continue to be in effect in President Donald Trump's administration, the White House announced Tuesday.

The head of an Australian pharmaceutical company is forcefully denying to CNN that Rep. Tom Price, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Human Services, was offered a special discounted rate of the firm's stocks.

Sen. Angus King said the Trump administration's controversial travel ban is "the worst foreign policy decision" since the US invaded Iraq.

The United States acting attorney general -- for the next few days, at least -- is a little-known, but longstanding federal prosecutor.

Businesses and some pro-economic growth Republican think tanks are worried about President Donald Trump's immigration policies -- and they're hoping that maybe the businessman in chief might be influenced by their message.

Amid controversy over the reshuffling of the National Security Council, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn penned a memo to the each of the Cabinet departments in the NSC striking a conciliatory tone.

Nancy Pelosi says repealing the Affordable Care Act would put the health care of tens of millions of Americans at risk

In the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito identified a fault line in the tumultuous relationship between the news media and Trump supporters. The press, she wrote, had taken then-candidate Donald Trump "literally, but not seriously," while his backers regarded his statements "seriously, but not literally."

The rabbi who offered a prayer at President Donald Trump's inauguration 10 days ago is criticizing the White House statement on International Holocaust Memorial Day that failed to mention Jews as a "mistake."

It should go without saying, but being a refugee isn't easy. Neither is getting into the United States.

A handful of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees' confirmation votes were postponed Monday, including Treasury Department nominee Steven Mnuchin, Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price and Small Business Administration nominee Linda McMahon.