President Trump fired Michael Atkinson Friday night, the inspector general for the intelligence community who oversaw the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment.
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Cloth face mask coverings can be used voluntarily to slow and prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to a new announcement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to nominate a Kentucky federal judge and former law professor who clerked for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the D.C. Circuit.
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Two of the most powerful people in Washington have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century, one that has already killed more than 6,000 Americans and put 10 million out of work.
Read morePresident Donald Trump was within his constitutional authority to declare a national emergency at the southern border last year, a federal judge ruled Thursday, but environmental groups can move forward on a central challenge in their lawsuit: whether the president can divert $3.6 billion in military funds to build a border wall.
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President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act Thursday to clear the pathway for manufacturers like General Electric and at least four others – for now – to produce lifesaving ventilators needed by patients acutely stricken with coronavirus.
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The Trump administration’s two-for-one deregulation order survived a legal challenge Thursday by states that said it threatened a greenhouse gas rules and an education program for low-income children, to name a few.
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A whopping 6.6 million new unemployment claims and news of a truce in the Russia-Saudi Arabia oil war sent markets on a rollercoaster ride Thursday.
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Five states and Washington, D.C., have received less than 10% of the critical personal protective equipment they requested from the federal government, according to records released Thursday by the House Oversight Committee.
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America’s trade gap with all countries dropped 12.2% in February to the lowest level since fall 2016, while the closely watched deficit with China also shrank as the coronavirus pandemic shut down that country’s economy.
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President Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus despite his administration’s projections that as many as 240,000 Americans may be killed by the disease. One by one, though, states are pushing shutdown orders of their own.
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The national stockpile of personal protective equipment is nearly depleted, President Donald Trump said at the White House’s Covid-19 task force briefing Wednesday.
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House Democrats on Wednesday rolled out an estimated $770 billion plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure, launching into phase four of the congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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A brutal first quarter on Wall Street may get worse during the second quarter, depending on consumer confidence, experts say.
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As images spread of New York hospitals moving body bags to morgues with forklifts — emblematic of a statewide death toll that doubled in three days — Governor Andrew Cuomo had plenty of empathy but little reassurance for the public in his daily press briefing Wednesday.
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President Trump’s allies are trying to contain a politically risky election-year fight with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as he inserts presidential politics with a global pandemic in one of the nation’s important swing states.
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In the latest break between the Trump administration and California on environmental policy, officials on Tuesday cemented plans that will give the state unprecedented control over a project that delivers water to more than 27 million residents.
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Concerned the White House will shake off terms of oversight laid out for a $500 billion chunk of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, in a letter issued Tuesday, a trio of Democratic Senators urged Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to hold up his end of the hard-fought bargain.
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More people have now died from coronavirus in the United States than in China, but models shared by the White House Tuesday offered a flicker of hope that mitigation efforts are working to slow the outbreak – though the death toll could still hover between 100,000 to 200,000.
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Pointing to low interest rates during the Covid-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested lawmakers should turn their attention to passing a massive infrastructure bill in the next phase of coronavirus relief measures.
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