Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence that Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.
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Unwitting carriers of Covid-19 are spreading the disease and need to be tested as lockdown measures ease up, the White House Coronavirus Task Force said Friday, holding its first briefing since April.
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An Interior Department watchdog office will investigate law enforcement and security forces’ violent clearing of protesters from Lafayette Square in front of the White House earlier this month.
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U.S. markets remained fairly quiet on Monday, opening to minuscule losses and closing with paltry gains, as one number continues to compound: confirmed cases of Covid-19.
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A federal judge was puzzled Friday by the Trump administration urging him to block former national security adviser John Bolton’s manuscript from hitting the shelves when the explosive book is already in the hands of the public.
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President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help him be re-elected, according to a scathing new book by former national security adviser John Bolton that accuses Trump of being uninformed on important issues and driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.
Read moreThe White House sued former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday to block the release of his book “The Room Where It Happened,” alleging it contains top-secret information.
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Steel fencing around Lafayette Square installed by the National Park Service amid anti-racism protests is expected to be mostly removed by Wednesday.
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The White House’s new press pass policy breaks more than 50 years of tradition. And when it revoked Playboy reporter Brian Karem’s pass last year, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday, it also very likely broke the law.
Read moreThe ACLU and Black Lives Matter sued President Trump and Attorney General William Barr on Thursday for using violent force to clear peaceful protesters so the president could pose for a photo holding a bible outside the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — Former Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren joined thousands of peaceful demonstrators descending on the
Read moreAustralia is investigating a U.S. police attack on two Australian television journalists outside the White House, the foreign minister said Tuesday, expressing “strong concerns” about the assault caught live on camera.
Read moreThe White House has taken the unusual step of deciding not to release an updated economic forecast as planned this year, a sign of the administration’s anxiety about how the coronavirus has ravaged the nation just months before the election.
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The White House cited Los Angeles as one of the three major hot spots for Covid-19 outbreaks in America, prompting LA County officials to tout the improvement of certain metrics in recent days.
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The Second Circuit upheld a ruling Monday that records of who has visited President Donald Trump’s White House and private Florida resort are exempt from government watchdog groups’ Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Eighty thousand Americans have died from Covid-19 in just over 70 days, but things will only get worse, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday in remarks to the Senate, if the country rushes its return to normalcy.
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The view from the White House on America’s testing capability for Covid-19 was undeniably rosy Monday afternoon, despite the virus spreading through the ranks of the Trump administration itself and the U.S. death count climbing ever closer to 100,000.
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After a second White House employee tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the White House on Friday insisted it is taking precautions to prevent the virus from spreading in the building.
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The White House Coronavirus Task Force isn’t going anywhere, President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday, overturning an announcement his administration made less than 24 hours earlier.
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Despite the U.S. Covid-19 death toll reaching 70,000 on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence said the White House coronavirus task force will soon disband thanks to the “tremendous progress” the nation has made in fighting the pandemic.
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