Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Education, appears to have lifted a quote from an Obama administration civil rights official in written answers to the Senate committee tasked with approving his nomination.
Congress is preparing this week to start the process of rolling back multiple regulations, one of which is a bipartisan rule that requires extractive industry corporations, like oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments for access to natural resources.
When President Donald Trump presents his nominee for the Supreme Court with all the White House pageantry Tuesday night, much more will be riding on this coveted appointment than when Justice Antonin Scalia died last February and created the opening.
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban on Tuesday night bashed President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, saying he believes the plan will do more harm than good.
President Donald Trump begins his 11th day in office shrouded in crisis, roundly criticized for a chaotic unveiling of immigration measures and under new scrutiny after he fired the nation's top law enforcement officer who refused to enforce them.
After a dozen days of the Trump administration, Senate Democrats are fed up enough that they've decided to boycott some committee votes. This may delay the Obamacare repeal and replacement plans, as Tom Price will probably need to wait another week before being confirmed as HHS secretary. At midnight, the fairy godmother (and the US government) will no longer allow any more Obamacare enrollees. As the deadline approaches, some are wondering if it's the last enrollment period ever for Obamacare.
An outgoing top State Department official told his colleagues on Tuesday to stay in their posts to defend the US Constitution and protect America from "all enemies foreign and domestic," in a thinly veiled critique of the Trump administration.
President Trump's chief strategist, former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, once dismissed the notion that Islam is a religion of peace, describing it in a 2010 radio interview as "a religion of submission."
Senate Democrats are weighing whether to avoid an all-out war to block President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court pick, instead considering delaying that battle for a future nomination that could shift the ideological balance of the court, sources say.
In only a few weeks, Judge Neil Gorsuch went from the federal appellate bench in Colorado, to become President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court.
Tensions erupted in the Senate Tuesday as Democrats stalled several of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, frustrating Republicans who accused Democrats of playing politics to try to hurt Trump and make Senate Republicans look ineffective.
President Donald Trump will not head to Milwaukee for a previously scheduled visit of a Harley-Davidson factory after the company decided it wasn't comfortable hosting him amid planned protests, an administration official said Tuesday.
There is a lot at stake as the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons go head to head in the Super Bowl this weekend in Houston -- and that could include the stewardship of the Department of Education.
Nawar Anwar Al-Awlaki, the eight-year old daughter of former al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a joint American-UAE raid against the terror group Sunday according to the girl's family.
President Donald Trump's executive order to reduce regulations by killing two agency rules for each new one that's added may be more complicated than he thought.
The two judges who have been considered the top finalists to be President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court -- Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman -- are being brought to Washington ahead of tonight's White House announcement, sources tell CNN.
A bipartisan group of more than 60 former federal prosecutors had issued a harshly worded statement Tuesday in support of former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Education, cleared one procedural hurdle to her confirmation Tuesday, being voted through by a Senate committee.
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