A federal watchdog concluded Thursday that the White House broke the law by allowing President Donald Trump to freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine so that he could put his own policy priorities before congressional ones.
Read moreArlene Delgado sued the Trump campaign, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Stephen Bannon in federal court for breach of contract and discrimination, claiming they refused to hire her for a proffered White House job after they learned she was pregnant by her supervisor, Jason Miller.
Read moreCalling out the White House’s conspicuous absence from a hearing to make the case for impeachment, Representative Jerry Nadler asserted Monday that President Donald Trump may have spurned the proceedings for lack of a defense.
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The Trump campaign Monday revoked press credentials for Bloomberg News reporters after the news organization stood by its decision not to investigate its namesake founder, Mike Bloomberg, or other Democratic candidates running against the incumbent Republican president in 2020.
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Nearly two months after a Democratic-led House committee initiated an investigation into the White House Office of Management and Budget’s hold-up of security assistance to Ukraine, the panel reported the documents they received show a pattern of abuse in the apportionment process.
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The lawyer for John Bolton denied Tuesday that a federal judge’s stinging rebuke of immunity for top White House aides has any bearing on his client’s refusal to comply with impeachment investigators.
Read moreBreaking from Trump’s orders to not comply with the impeachment inquiry, White House budget official Mark Sandy indicated Thursday he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee at a closed hearing on Saturday.
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When the U.S. House of Representatives launches open hearings into its impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, President Donald Trump will be hosting a head of state who shares his obsession about the so-called “deep state.”
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After refusing to comply with a subpoena and skipping out on scheduled testimony earlier in the day, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Friday night filed a motion to intervene in a pending lawsuit asking a court to determine whether the president’s advisers are required to testify in the House impeachment probe.
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House lawmakers conducting the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump met Thursday with the first White House political appointee to testify, a day after the official resigned as the president’s national-security adviser on Russia and Europe.
Read moreShe’s done a lot with the place. Like anyone who has ever spruced up their home, Melania Trump will have a few new touches to showcase Friday when guests visit the White House for only the second state dinner of the Trump presidency.
Read moreThe White House has instructed two former aides to President Donald Trump not to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, saying Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter are “absolutely immune” from testifying at what the panel is calling its first impeachment hearing.
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The White House is bristling Wednesday after a federal judge reinstate press access to a Playboy reporter whose clash with a former adviser to the president went viral this summer.
Read moreA federal judge said Tuesday he hopes to rule within the next week on the press-pass challenge brought by a Playboy reporter whose confrontation with a former Trump administration official at the White House went viral.
Read moreA senior correspondent for Playboy claims in a federal complaint that the White House suspended his press pass because he lacked “decorum” and “professionalism” when conservative social-media influencers shouted at him during a Rose Garden event last month.
Read moreRamping up pressure on the White House and a key figure in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, House Democrats asked a federal judge Wednesday to order former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress.
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Melania Trump announced Tuesday that Stephanie Grisham, her longtime spokeswoman and confidante, will succeed Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary. Grisham is jumping right into her new role by accompanying President Donald Trump on a trip to Asia starting Wednesday.
Read moreFormer top White House adviser Hope Hicks is refusing to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Donald Trump as part of their investigation into obstruction of justice.
Read moreA government watchdog agency said Thursday that top White House aide Kellyanne Conway should be fired for numerous violations of the Hatch Act, which limits the political activities of federal employees working in the executive branch.
Read moreThe White House on Tuesday again directed former employees not to cooperate with a congressional investigation, this time instructing former aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson to defy subpoenas and refuse to provide documents to the House Judiciary Committee.
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