President Donald Trump’s White House appears to have figured out the secret of congressional oversight: There’s not much Democrats can do if they say no to everything. The millions of voters who elected a Democratic House in November are about to find out how hard it is for one party — with just one chamber […]

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday released a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his sprawling investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The release of the report comes just over three weeks after Barr laid out what he described as Mueller’s core findings in a four-page letter that effectively cleared President […]

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to Atlanta next week to discuss the opioid crisis at an annual substance abuse summit. Organizers of the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit announced Tuesday that the Trumps will appear at the event, which is hosted by the National Conference of Addiction Disorders. The president and first lady will […]

Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday that he is reviewing whether U.S. officials improperly “spied” on members of the Trump campaign, a statement that prompted cheers from Republicans and gave Democrats new reasons to attack the top Justice Department official as a partisan steward of President Donald Trump. The Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has already been […]

A CNN news anchor and three MSNBC guests spread the false impression on the air that President Donald Trump referred to immigrants as “animals” last week. The confusion stemmed from an unverified Twitter user identified as Mark Elliott, who tweeted out a short clip of Trump Friday and accused him of referring to asylum seekers […]