President Trump suspended residents from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. and blocked refugees from around the world Monday, retooling the executive order that stoked chaos at airports and drew international condemnation and a ...

President Trump accused Obama of wiretapping his phones during the 2016 election, an escalation of tit-for-tat allegations between Trump and Democrats as pressure mounts for an independent investigation into Trump's ties to Russia. Trump cited no ...

For months, they pleaded for rain. Now they're dying from the downpour. Floods in Zimbabwe have killed nearly 250 people since December in regions that were recently suffering from drought. This southern African country this week appealed to ...

A Kremlin spokesman said Thursday that any past meetings between Russia's envoy to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, and U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions were “not our headache.” The spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, told reporters in a conference call that he did not ...

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should step aside from any role in the investigation of potential contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) said Thursday. McCarthy's remarks made him the ...

For 30 years as an Episcopal priest in Iowa, Peter Sickels smeared crosses of ash on the foreheads of his parishioners every Ash Wednesday. “Remember, oh man,” he would say during the ceremony marking the start of Lent, “you are dust and to dust you ...

For 30 years as an Episcopal priest in Iowa, Peter Sickels smeared crosses of ash on the foreheads of his parishioners every Ash Wednesday. “Remember, oh man,” he would say during the ceremony marking the start of Lent, “you are dust and to dust you ...

There's a fascinating set of questions that loom large on this day after President Trump's momentous speech in front of a joint session of Congress. Was this what historians will call his most “presidential" speech so far? And is that the kind of tone ...

American Jewish leaders are pushing President Trump to clarify his views after he reportedly said that recent bomb threats against Jewish centers could have been done in "the reverse” to “make others look bad." Some in the Jewish community have ...

”These are ceremonial exercises, these are exercises where we honor the president, and people are shaking hands, smiling. It is an occasion where people are basically sending the message that everybody's working together, everything is going well. I ...

President Trump stepped up his attack on federal environmental protections Tuesday, issuing an order directing his administration to begin the long process of rolling back sweeping clean water rules that were enacted by his predecessor. The order ...

President Trump will call for a return to manned space exploration in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, according to a report citing an unnamed senior administration official. The declaration, reported by PBS NewsHour, comes a day after SpaceX ...

President Trump will deliver on Tuesday his biggest speech since inauguration, an address to a joint session of Congress. The West Wing is keen to demonstrate that Trump is keeping his promises and will explain how. With that in mind, it's worth ...

President Trump vowed to use his first joint address to Congress on Tuesday to call for a dramatic $54 billion increase in military spending, coupled with an equally large cut to domestic programs that could gut some core functions of the federal ...

President Trump is proposing a massive increase in defense spending of $54 billion while cutting domestic spending and foreign aid by the same amount, the White House said Monday. Trump's spending blueprint previewed a major address that he will give ...

Every president since 1981 has attended the annual White House Correspondents' Assn. dinner. That year, President Reagan missed out. The reason? He needed to recover after a would-be assassin fired a bullet into his chest a few weeks earlier.

South African authorities are under fire for allowing an anti-immigrant “march of hatred” to go ahead in Pretoria Friday, just days after a series of violent attacks against Somalis, Nigerians and other foreigners. The results were predictable: Police ...

For Texas state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, requiring people to use the bathroom according to the gender on their birth certificate has always been about public safety. It's why Kolkhorst is the prime sponsor of a controversial transgender bathroom bill ...

As we wait to see exactly how President Trump will try to fulfill his campaign promise to create a nationwide school voucher program , Kevin Carey has provided some key context in a piece in the New York Times. Carey, who directs the education policy ...

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is dropping federal protections for transgender students, causing concern among LGBT advocates and students throughout the country. Here's a Q&A on the consequences of the new White House ...