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Employees at the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency -- where career employees have been instructed to cease almost all communications with audiences outside the agency -- are feeling the Trump administration's crackdown on federal agencies more than most, leaving some employees "terrified."

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on immigration and border security, which included his campaign promises of building a wall and substantially stepping up deportations and immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will start to reshape US immigration enforcement policies via executive order, taking his first steps toward fulfilling some of the most contentious pledges that defined his campaign.

Senate Democrats have been tight-lipped about their retreat in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Congress may pay for the border wall through a special spending bill being hashed out over the next two months, footing the cost of President Donald Trump's priority before seeking any refund from Mexico, Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.

Like most successful candidates, President Donald Trump's rhetoric from the campaign trail now runs up awkwardly against the often dense and arcane language that fills more formal executive actions and memos.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, said Wednesday President Donald Trump's proposal to build a US-Mexico wall isn't one of his top priorities.

Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois came out swinging against President Donald Trump's executive order designed to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, vowing "to fight."

What a difference a month makes.

Marisela Ramirez's hands tremble as she rubs them together to control the shaking. The dirt under her fingernails hints at the hardscrabble journey she's endured since leaving her home in southern Mexico weeks ago.

"A nation without borders is not a nation," President Donald Trump said Wednesday in signing an executive action to start the process of building a wall along the southern border. "Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders."

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Wednesday he doesn't "see any evidence" of voter fraud, and his committee won't investigate it.

Move over, Captain America, there's a new superhero in town. And instead of taking names, he's taking an oath ... of office.

President Donald Trump is considering a blanket ban on refugees for up to four months, according to a draft executive order obtained by CNN, making good on a campaign promise to enact stringent measures on Muslim migrants trying to enter the US.

President Donald Trump is done interviewing candidates to fill the opening on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday.

President Donald Trump could sign an executive order or presidential memorandum initiating an investigation into voter fraud as early as Thursday, a senior administration official tells CNN.

Seven activists affiliated with the environmental organization Greenpeace climbed a construction crane near the White House Wednesday morning.

President Donald Trump has called for a "major investigation" into his baseless claims that millions of illegal votes were cast -- but Democrats fear it will morph into new efforts to limit voting access.

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard met with President Bashar al-Assad during a secret, four-day trip to Syria, she told CNN's Jake Tapper Wednesday.

Former President George H.W. Bush is improving and may return home from the hospital as soon as this weekend, a spokesman for the 41st President said.