President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have a new complication in their historically contentious relationship: The decision by Sessions not to appoint a second special counsel to investigate conservative allegations of abuse at the Justice Department.
Conservative are boiling with anger at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for declining to appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ).
A federal judge on Friday evening temporarily blocked Trump administration officials from stopping pregnant, unaccompanied immigrant teens who are or will be in federal custody from getting an abortion.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top ethics official said Friday that Administrator Scott Pruitt’s lease of a Capitol Hill condo last year aligned with ethics rules. The arrangement elicited significant criticism this week from Democrats, outside ethics experts and others.
Four conservative Republicans in the House are airing their grievances with Washington, including frustrations with GOP leaders, in a new video series slated to be released on Facebook early next week.
An internal FBI report that was used as part of the grounds to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe includes testimony from his former boss James Comey that is at odds with public statements McCabe has made about his firing, CNN reported Friday.
Connecticut’s largest newspaper on Friday call on Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.) to resign amid criticisms that she suppressed allegations of harassment by a former top aide who reportedly threatened the safety of other staffers.
The U.S. is "deeply saddened" by the deaths of more than a dozen Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Friday, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
OPINION | Before members of Congress put special counsel Robert Mueller’s face on milk cartons, they could consider the likelihood that he is not going anywhere.
OPINION | As discussions around Gina Haspel's nomination to lead the CIA heat up, other contentious legal proceedings — the current genocide trials in Guatemala — remind us that U.S. sanctioning of torture has a long, dark history with which we have yet to reckon.
The Trump administration said on Friday that it could immediately fund 100 miles of new and replacement border fencing, a first step in the president’s plans for building a wall on part of the United States’ nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
In Sioux County, where swine barns interrupt the vast landscape of corn-stubbled fields, exports of meat, grain and machinery fuel the local economy. And there’s a palpable sense of unease that new Chinese tariffs pushed by President Donald Trump — who received more than 80 percent of the vote here in 2016 — could threaten residents’ livelihood.
The carefully maintained secrecy around President Trump’s finances is under unprecedented assault a year into his presidency, with three different legal teams with different agendas trying to pry open the Trump Organization’s books.
After a series of high-profile White House departures, focus is turning to other appointees who may get more scrutiny from President Donald Trump as he reshapes his cabinet and senior staff during his second year in office.
By Dan Merica, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta and Rene Marsh
Senior White House aides are exasperated with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, the already embattled Cabinet secretary who now finds himself at the center of an expanding controversy over his decision to rent a room in Washington, DC, from the family of an energy lobbyist.
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