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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by telephone on Monday and discussed Syria and problems of the Korean peninsula, the Russia’s foreign ministry said.
he White House said on Saturday that President Donald Trump will pick Kathy Kraninger, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official, to head the U.S. consumer watchdog, drawing criticism from consumer advocates and dividing conservatives.
This is not a Democratic Party policy. It's not necessarily even a Republican policy. It's a cruel Trump administration policy announced last month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions
It's Saturday in America, which means Donald Trump is whining on Twitter about how he and his supporters don't get the respect they deserve.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faced fresh ethics questions on Friday, this time about how he got tickets to this year’s Rose Bowl college football game, but President Donald Trump reiterated that Pruitt has done a “fantastic job” leading the agency.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday a Justice Department inspector general's report that concluded there was no bias in how the FBI handled its investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails was wrong, saying there was "total bias."
Federal prosecutors investigating U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen have extracted more than 700 pages of messages sent using encrypted programs like WhatsApp and Signal on phones seized from Cohen, according to a court filing on Friday.
The federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential collusion by Donald Trump's campaign has targeted - directly or indirectly - a growing group of presidential associates.
The president's former economic adviser Gary Cohn said that waging a trade war could start a chain reaction that ends in an economic crash.
No true person of faith would see the images coming from the southern border and think it's okay.
The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump's new import tariffs threaten to undermine the global trading system, prompt retaliation by other countries and damage the U.S. economy.
Former FBI Director James Comey made a "serious error of judgment" when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Thursday.
Republican senators on Wednesday said embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt should testify before the U.S. Congress to address the list of ethics scandals he faces, but stopped short of calling for his resignation.
Not only are more people looking to jump off this Hindenburg disaster of a presidency, but it's going to be increasingly hard to find anyone willing to replace them.
While Trump attacks news networks that are actually reporting the facts about his dangerous administration, he is embracing truth-free Fox News.
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was planning to ramp up efforts to bring more civil rights lawsuits against municipalities that try to discriminate against houses of worship.
When U.S. President Donald Trump sat down to make the case for peace to North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, he rolled out what amounted to a movie trailer starring the two leaders.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt had one of his top aides contact several Republican donors from EPA offices last year. The purpose of the contacts was to solicit the donors to find his wife Marlyn a job in Washington, DC. Eventually he was successful in getting her a position at a conservative political group, according to the Washington Post.
Economists caution that the Trump administration’s corporate and individual tax cuts along with an increase in government spending will drive up the country’s deficit despite a robust economy in which the unemployment rate has fallen to an 18-year low.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro apologized on Tuesday for his sharp comments directed at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after last week's Group of Seven summit, according to the Wall Street Journal.