Category: Government

Hope Hicks, President Donald Trump’s longest-serving aide and current communications director will resign her post in the coming weeks, the White House said Wednesday. The New York Times first reported that Hicks would resign and sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed she would be leaving to ABC News. After the news broke, President Trump […]

President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children. The justices refused to hear the administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s Jan. 9 injunction that halted […]

President Trump on Saturday dismissed a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP memo outlining government surveillance abuses in the 2016 campaign as a “total political and legal bust,” claiming that it only confirms the ”terrible things” that were done by the nation’s intelligence agencies. The rebuttal, written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, concluded that […]

Provisional plans for President Donald Trump to host his Mexican counterpart in Washington have been put on hold, White House officials said Saturday. The postponement of plans to meet this month or in March followed a testy telephone call between the two leaders earlier last week, the Washington Post reported, citing information from U.S. and […]

A new – and familiar – name might soon be added to the list of candidates running in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District race: Levi Sanders, the son of 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. A senior adviser to Levi Sanders told ABC News he’s “in the stages of deciding” whether he’ll run for Congress, talking […]

A lawsuit by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia accusing President Trump of accepting gifts from foreign governments will now challenge Trump as both a government official and a private businessman, The Associated Press reports. Plaintiffs argue that the president is in violation of the Constitution’s “emoluments” clause, which prohibits the […]

The home of the former school resource deputy who stayed outside the Florida high school as last week’s massacre unfolded was being protected Friday by law enforcement officials — even as President Trump called out the ex-cop, suggesting he was a “coward.” Deputy Scot Peterson, shown speaking in 2015, was armed and stationed on campus […]

Former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates pleaded guilty Friday afternoon as part of a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian interference in the election. Gates pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by Mueller’s team in federal court in Washington, D.C.: one count of conspiracy against the United States […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday expanded on his idea to train and arm some teachers with guns, suggesting that firearm-adept school staff be given “a little bit of a bonus” for carrying weapons, and promising federal funds to train them. At a White House discussion on school safety solutions with state and local […]

President Trump said Thursday that he is thinking of pulling federal immigration enforcement officers from California over the state’s sanctuary policies. “Frankly it’s a disgrace, the sanctuary city situation,” Trump said at a White House meeting on school safety. Opponents of the administration have been critical of the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

The White House said Thursday that President Trump does not support a ban on “assault weapons.” Democrats are calling on lawmakers to enact a ban on semi-automatic weapons that have been fashioned to fire more rapidly, like the AR-15 that was used to kill 17 students at a high school in Florida last week. The […]