Trump: 'Willing to 'shut down' government' for wall, border security

President Donald Trump said Sunday he'd be willing to shut down the government if Democrats refuse to vote for his immigration proposals, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump administration: 1,820 children reunited after border split

The Trump administration said Thursday that more than 1,800 children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited with parents and sponsors but hundreds remain apart, signaling a potentially long wait for anguished families.

Putin soccer ball gift to Trump may have had microchip

The soccer ball that Vladimir Putin gave President Donald Trump may have had a bug after all. Though it's not what you're thinking.

Trump recorded discussing paying for Playboy model's story

Two months before the 2016 election, Donald Trump and his former lawyer discussed plans to pay for a former Playboy model's story of alleged an affair, according to a secretly recorded tape of the conversation released amid an escalating feud between the president and his longtime personal attorney.

Trump and Putin morph into one on TIME magazine cover

TIME magazine's latest cover features a blended image of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin morphed into one person.

Rauner says he didn't know about mayoral candidate's cash giveaway

Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson says he wasn't trying to buy anyone's vote when he handed out close to $200,000 to churchgoers. 

Just tough Trump tweeting? US ratchets up Iran pressure

President Donald Trump's explosive twitter threat to Iran's leader comes as his administration is ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic that many suspect is aimed at regime change.

Trump: FBI documents for warrant on Carter Page 'misled the court'

President Donald Trump asserted without evidence Sunday that newly released documents relating to the wiretapping of his onetime campaign adviser Carter Page "confirm with little doubt" that intelligence agencies misled the court that approved the warrant.

President Trump says he's ‘not happy' with interest rate hikes

President Donald Trump is casting aside concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence and saying he's 'not happy' with the central bank's interest rate increases.

Trump says Biden is his 2020 'dream' Democratic opponent

WASHINGTON (AP) - So which Democrat would President Donald Trump most like to run against in 2020? He says it's Joe Biden. Trump tells CBS News in an interview broadcast Thursday that "I dream about Biden." Biden, who was vice president under Barack Obama, sought the Democratic presidential nomination twice but eventually dropped out of each race. Biden considered running in 2016,...

Emotions high as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh begins fight for confirmation

Conservative Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plunged into his confirmation battle Tuesday, meeting face-to-face with Senate leaders in what promises to be an intense debate over abortion rights, presidential power and other legal disputes that could reshape the court and roil this fall's elections.

Activist raises funds to bring ‘Trump baby balloon' to US, hopes to fly at NJ golf club

A local activist hopes to bring the 'Baby Trump blimp'—a giant balloon characterizing President Trump as a screaming orange baby—to the president's New Jersey golf club.

12 Russian intel officers indicted for hacking DNC

Twelve Russian intelligence officers hacked into the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election and released tens of thousands of stolen communications in a brazen effort by a foreign government to meddle in U.S. politics, according to a grand jury indictment announced Friday.

Trump's lawyers call Comey 'Machiavellian' in note to Mueller

Lawyers for President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on former FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel, casting him as "Machiavellian," dishonest and "unbounded by law and regulation" as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president.

Trump revokes Obama policy using race in school admissions

The Trump administration is rescinding Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to take a student's race into account to encourage diversity in admissions, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

Trump says he's interviewed 4 possible Supreme Court justice candidates for Kennedy seat

President Donald Trump interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices on Monday and had plans to meet with a few more as his White House aggressively mobilizes to select a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

President Trump says he'll announce his Supreme Court nominee July 9

Moving forward quickly on a key decision, President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to announce his choice to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on July 9.