Senate votes to block Saudi arms sales as Trump vows veto

The Senate has voted to block the Trump administration from selling arms to Saudi Arabia, launching a new challenge to President Donald Trump's alliance with the country amid rising tensions in the Middle East.

A half-hour away: How Trump opted against Iran strike

"'I want to know something before you go,'" Trump recounted. "'How many people will be killed?'"

Trump reportedly threatens journalist with prison time during interview

President Donald Trump reportedly threatened a Time Magazine journalist with prison time during an interview at the Oval Office over a photo of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un’s letter to him. 

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President Donald Trump reportedly threatened a Time Magazine journalist with prison time during an interview at the Oval Office. The magazine released a transcript?of the exchange, which included its team of four journalists? 57-minute conversation with the president.

United States prepped for strikes on Iran before approval was withdrawn

The United States made preparations for a military strike against Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, but the operation was abruptly called off with just hours to go, a U.S. official said.

Atlantic City faces push to change its form of government

An effort is brewing in a New Jersey resort city to shift executive power from the mayor to a hired municipal manager.

Senators receive classified briefing on Navy UFO sightings

A handful of U.S. senators attended a classified briefing in Washington on Wednesday in regard to alleged sightings and encounters with highly-sophisticated unidentified aircraft reported by Navy pilots and personnel, Politico reported.

President Trump tweets `Iran made a very big mistake' in downing US drone

Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, though they disputed the circumstances of the incident.

Trump EPA rolls back Obama rule on coal-fired power plants

The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.

Shanahan drops bid to lead Pentagon, citing 'painful' past

After months of unexplained delays, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a "painful" family situation that would hurt his children and reopen "wounds we have worked years to heal."

Senate leaders agree on measure to care for refugees

The top Republican and Democrat on a key Senate panel have agreed on a $4.6 billion measure to house and care for immigrant refugees flocking across the U.S.-Mexico border - a long-delayed step toward averting a humanitarian tragedy at overcrowded and inadequate federal facilities in the southwest.

'Why not now?' for slavery reparations, House panel is told

Lawmakers on Wednesday held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on reparations, spotlighting the debate over whether the United States should consider compensation for the descendants of slaves in the United States.

Q&A: A look at the standoff between the US and Iran

Hostilities are heating up between the United States and Iran and while President Donald Trump says he's not looking to go to war with Tehran, it's unclear how the standoff can be resolved.

Trump makes it official, launches 2020 re-election bid

President Donald Trump jabbed at the press and poked the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016 as he kicked off his reelection campaign with a grievance-filled rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a possible second term.

Trump threatens to deport millions beginning next week

President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the country illegally on the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid.

Nuclear changes, more troops heighten US-Iran tensions

The U.S. and Iran edged toward a flashpoint Monday as Tehran announced it was breaking compliance with the accord that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.

Israel moves to name Golan settlement after Trump

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet convened to inaugurate a new settlement named after President Donald Trump in a gesture of appreciation for the U.S. leader's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory.

Trump says he won't fire Conway over Hatch Act violations

President Donald Trump says he won't fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers.