President Barack Obama reduced or eliminated the sentences for hundreds more non-violent drug offenders on Tuesday, likely his final acts of clemency while in office.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Donald Trump's pick to quarterback the replacement of Obamacare, Tom Price, might have broken the law with a questionable stock purchase.
Repealing major Obamacare provisions without a replacement plan in place would quickly strip 18 million Americans of their insurance and cause premiums to skyrocket, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday.
More than a million supporters of Edward Snowden have petitioned President Barack Obama to pardon him, but the former National Security Agency contractor hasn't submitted the required documents for clemency, according to the White House.
Willfully or skillfully, Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are avoiding answering key questions on the details of how their agencies will run, sticking to big-picture ideas instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of policy.
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Tuesday rapped President-elect Donald Trump for his defense of Moscow and delivered a stark warning about Russian efforts to undermine the international order.
President Barack Obama's stay at the White House doesn't officially end until Friday, but he's already getting a head start on moving into his new home.
Donald Trump said Rep. John Lewis is "wrong" to suggest that the President-elect's inauguration is the first he will boycott such an event, citing the Georgia congressman also protested the first inauguration of George W. Bush.
Legendary journalist Bob Woodward said that CNN's reporting on a summary of classified information presented to Donald Trump was "exactly right" and it "clearly is news" that intelligence chiefs presented the information to the President-elect.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a damning dossier on US President-elect Donald Trump was "false" and dismissed allegations that his country's security services had been monitoring him as "rubbish."
President Barack Obama, on his final Tuesday in office, appointed soon-to-be former staffers and supporters to administration posts, including Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
President Barack Obama bid a public farewell to his press secretary Tuesday, dropping into Josh Earnest's final daily briefing to lavish praise upon his spokesman.
Donald Trump has been accused of causing "astonishment and agitation" within NATO while forcing German Chancellor Angela Merkel into shrugging off comments that her immigrations polices have been "catastrophic."
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