Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at White House events.
Read moreThe House Judiciary Committee petitioned for a rehearing of the latest decision by the D.C. Circuit on the subpoena to former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Last month, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the House lacks the authority to seek court-enforcement of subpoenas including the one issued in 2019 to the former Trump advisor who claims “absolute immunity” from testifying to Congress.
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House Democrats cannot use the courts to enforce subpoenas, the D.C. Circuit ruled Monday, dealing a critical blow to an investigation of President Donald Trump from the chamber.
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The National Association of the Deaf urged a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday to protect the civil rights of deaf Americans and order the Trump administration to include live American Sign Language interpretation in White House briefings on Covid-19.
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Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential and longest serving advisers, announced Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month.
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Five deaf Americans sued the White House on Monday for failing to include American Sign Language interpreters in daily briefings on the pandemic, emphasizing that every state in the country is observing this basic access right.
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The White House confirmed Monday that its most senior official so far has tested positive for the coronavirus: national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien.
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Over 140,000 people in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 and President Donald Trump encouraged Americans to wear masks Tuesday during his first White House coronavirus briefing in 85 days.
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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.
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