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White House communications director Michael Dubke walks out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Dubke has resigned as communication director, but his last day has not yet been determined. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Shake-up rumors build as Trump’s communications director exits

August 22, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer sparred with reporters about "fake news," their anonymous sources and erroneous coverage of President Trump on Tuesday until, before long, he'd had enough. He...

President Donald Trump meets with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt in the Oval Office of the White House on April 3, 2017.

Why Trump is reaching out and even praising ruthless dictators: It’s strategy

August 22, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

President Trump says he'd be "honored" to meet the North Korean despot Kim Jong Un. Egypt's president, who allowed his opponents to be shot, is doing a "fantastic job." The...

Turkish experts evacuate a victim of a suspected chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli on April 4, 2017.

White House and Russia trade heated charges over poison gas attack in Syria

August 22, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

The White House and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged heated charges Tuesday over last week's poison gas attack in Syria, stoking fresh tensions as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters after a meeting at the White House on March 22, 2017.

House intel chairman, top Democrat clash over Trump surveillance revelations

August 22, 2019 at 3:40 a.m.

U.S. intelligence agencies inadvertently intercepted communications involving the Trump transition team late last year, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday, a disclosure that President Trump said "somewhat"...

What you need to know about Trump’s new immigration rules

August 22, 2019 at 3:18 a.m.

New memos issued this week by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly brought President Trump's promised crackdown on illegal immigration one step closer to reality. Kelly lifted nearly all restrictions...

"DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me," President Trump said Thursday in a news conference at the White House.

White House finds ways to end protection for Dreamers while shielding Trump from blowback

August 22, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, his aides have identified at least two...

Will court’s ruling on travel ban change Trump’s approach to governing?

August 22, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

When other presidents were dealt the kind of jolting setback that President Trump received from the courts this week, they learned from those moments to alter their approaches to the...

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly contradicted deportation plans made public this week by the Trump administration.

Homeland Security secretary takes responsibility for travel ban’s botched rollout

August 22, 2019 at 3:04 a.m.

President Trump's top Homeland Security official took responsibility Tuesday for the haphazard rollout of Trump's restrictions on entry into the U.S., a striking claim because he was largely left out...

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president's executive orders.

Trump administration signals that some temporary bans on entry into U.S. could become permanent

August 22, 2019 at 2:58 a.m.

The Trump administration doubled down Tuesday on its commitment to transforming the nation's border law enforcement, signaling that some of the temporary bans on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries...

Senior aides to President Trump are determining whether to expand the travel bans he ordered Friday.

White House aides who wrote Trump’s travel ban see it as just the start

August 22, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

Even as confusion, internal dissent and widespread condemnation greeted President Trump's travel ban and crackdown on refugees this weekend, senior White House aides say they are are only getting started....

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