President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.

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The beloved book has certainly made a mark in literary history.

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Insider threat? Meet the guy doing deals with the worst of enemies.

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Kash Patel has spent almost a decade using Russian disinformation to try to frame Trump's adversaries -- first Hillary Clinton, then Jim Comey. That means, when Kash goes to Russia this week, they wil...

The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules.

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.

Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech in which he said gas prices would be lower soon, touted his ouster of Venezuela’s dictator, and made attacks on news outlets.

The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.

President Donald Trump has called mail-in voting "corrupt" and a "disaster." Now he says: “Vote early. Vote by mail.”

The president’s biographer says one thing keeps the president up at night.

The Trump administration again defended the decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and to exclude journalists from the pool that covers the president in small spaces.

Wellness guru Barbara O'Neill has an enormous, devoted global audience for her many egregious, non-evidence-based claims about "natural" heal ...

In Part II of its series on pre-midterms election-rigging by Donald Trump and his agents, Proof shows that the plot is exponentially more vast than once believed—a historic bid to end our democracy.

Tucker Carlson is talking about what happened behind closed doors in his very public break with President Trump over the war with Iran.He recounts an Oval Office meeting, before the conflict began, wh...

The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’

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A Trump administration TV ad featuring Donald Trump has drawn criticism over taxpayer funding and claims it is a public service announcement.

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

Smith says he stands behind his decision to bring criminal charges against Trump and believes the Republican would've been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.

There are no plans in this White House, whose handling of its own press ban was comically inept, to address any of the myriad issues that are fueling citizen anger. That takes too much work – or a lot...

Trump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans distance themselves from him

While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

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Health Department nominees are distancing themselves from their prospective boss and President Trump by endorsing vaccination.