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Staffing shakeup to overshadow five Cabinet members pitching infrastructure plan to the Hill

Five Cabinet secretaries are heading to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a hearing on infrastructure, but it's likely other issues will come up amid the news that President Donald Trump is shaking up his administration.

NYT: White House reviews plan that would send up to 120,000 US troops to Middle East

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented a military plan at a meeting of top national security officials last week that would send as many as 120,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran strikes American forces in the region or speeds up its development of nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported Monday.

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Texas congresswoman to Trump: 'I refuse to be an accessory' to El Paso visit

Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas on Tuesday said she declined an invitation to join President Donald Trump on his upcoming visit to El Paso, Texas, as the city recovers from a mass shooting.

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Kushner resurfaces with op-ed on the Middle East

Top Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner resurfaced on Sunday by penning a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the Middle East, his first public remarks since the end of the Trump administration and offering a potential indication into how he will seek to cement his own legacy and accomplishments.

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Trump officials can testify on former President's actions leading up to insurrection, Justice Department decides

The Justice Department formally declined to assert executive privilege for potential testimony of at least some witnesses related to the January 6 Capitol attack, a person briefed on the matter said.

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Biden administration launches roadmap to tackle pollution from widely used 'forever chemicals'

The White House on Monday announced a new plan to combat pollution from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chemicals that can cause severe health problems and linger in the environment after being released.

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Biden keeps confronting a good problem: A hot labor market

President Joe Biden touted a hotter-than-expected February jobs number on Friday as a sign that his agenda is working, even as the Federal Reserve considers increasing its pace of interest rate hikes in the coming weeks as a part of its ongoing efforts to tame inflation.

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Obama Offers Optimism -- And Warnings -- In Farewell Address

Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama said goodbye to the nation Tuesday night, declaring during his farewell address that he hasn't abandoned his vision of progressive change but warning that it now comes with a new set of caveats.

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Why Kamala Harris as VP Would Be a Revelation for Black America

Kamala Harris walked into a packed auditorium for her freshman orientation at Howard University and experienced a revelation.

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Online posts reveal suspected gunman spent months planning racist attack at a Buffalo supermarketket

Social media posts by the 18-year-old White man suspected of shooting and killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday reveal he had been planning his attack for months. Alleged gunman Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, posted that he selected a particular ZIP code in Buffalo because it had the highest percentage of a Black population close enough to where he lived. Police and other officials have described the mass shooting as a hate crime.

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Trump 'enthusiastic' over unproven coronavirus therapeutic, MyPillow creator says

President Donald Trump and Mike Lindell, the creator of MyPillow and an avowed supporter, participated in a July meeting at the White House regarding the use of oleandrin as a potential therapeutic for coronavirus, Lindell confirmed to CNN.

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More than half of Americans think Trump will lose in 2020. But that hasn't doomed past presidents from getting reelected.

A majority of Americans think President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid in 2020, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, similar numbers to those facing former President Barack Obama at this point in his first term ahead of his re-election victory.

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Ayanna Pressley's win shows just being liberal isn't enough in today's Democratic Party

On Tuesday night, Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley crushed 10-term Rep. Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary for a seat that has been held by the likes of John F. Kennedy and Tip O'Neill in the past.

Trump undercuts plea for unity with return to political attacks

President Donald Trump called for unity during a prepared White House address in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend, but ahead of his trip to visit the communities impacted by gun violence, the consoler-in-chief was back to wedging a partisan divide on Twitter and in front of cameras.

January 6 committee sends letters to 3 more GOP House members seeking information

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection sent letters Monday to three additional Republican congressmen, asking that they voluntarily cooperate with the ongoing probe.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson joins US Supreme Court as first Black woman on the bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as an associate justice to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, making history as the first Black woman on the highest court in the nation.

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An author who studies diverse democracies shares what he sees as the future of the US

An army of commentators have rightly condemned a belief called "replacement theory," which a young White man cited before killing 10 people, most of them Black, Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

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Netflix announces multi-year production deal with the Obamas

Barack and Michelle Obama will work both in front of and behind the camera in a multi-year production deal with Netflix.

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Trump Dismisses Papadopoulos as 'low-level volunteer' But Once Touted Him

President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to downplay the indictments of former top campaign aides even calling one of his campaign advisers, who pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI, a "low-level volunteer."

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Jared Kushner deleted 'critical' stories at his newspaper, software developer claims

Jared Kushner told a software developer who worked at his newspaper, the New York Observer, to delete several "critical" stories in 2012, according to Austin Smith, the developer who said he "complied."