Michael A. Memoli

President Barack Obama holds up a United Center parking pass that was presented to him during a ceremony to honor the 2015 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks on Feb. 18, 2016. The parking pass is good for all games and all dates at the United Center in Chicago.

Cubs visit President Donald Trump at White House: ‘This is a great team’

May 16, 2019 at 5:43 a.m.

Just more than five months after a robust East Room celebration with President Barack Obama, several Cubs players, coaches and executives had a more modest celebration Wednesday in the West...

President Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, shows his signature on executive orders signed Jan. 27. One of the orders banned people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from traveling to the United States.

Trump scores a partial win for his travel ban. What comes next?

August 22, 2019 at 4:55 a.m.

What's next after the Supreme Court cleared the way for parts of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order to begin taking effect? Here are some answers. Does this put...

President Trump talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi at a G-7 summit expanded session in Taormina, Italy, on May 27.

Trump maps new course with allies and autocrats in first foreign trip

August 22, 2019 at 4:31 a.m.

Donald Trump made no secret during the presidential campaign of his disdain for America's trading partners, his skepticism of longtime alliances and his eagerness to refocus U.S. foreign policy on...

A tale of two princes: a king’s son and a president’s son-in-law drive Trump’s visit

August 22, 2019 at 4:25 a.m.

They've been dubbed the two princes, the rising young powers behind the gilded thrones in the budding strategic alliance between the House of Saud and the House of Trump. Jared...

Some Saudis see Trump’s visit as chance for ‘a crucial turning point’ in relationship with U.S.

August 22, 2019 at 4:24 a.m.

President Trump takes off Friday for Saudi Arabia, the initial stop on his first overseas trip as president, where he can expect a 21-gun salute and an elaborate welcome by...

This was the week a reality-TV presidency faced cold reality.

In consequential week, Trump leans on Washington establishment he vowed to disrupt

August 22, 2019 at 3:54 a.m.

After 10 weeks of pinballing through political and domestic fiascos largely of his own making, President Trump last week faced the kinds of wrenching external challenges no White House occupant...

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan leave the House side of the Capitol after the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on March 16, 2017.

Trump and Ryan’s awkward alliance faces big test in health care vote today

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

President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan are staring at a moment that could define or derail their tenures, with the vote on the GOP measure to repeal and...

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"...

President Trump will release his first preliminary budget on Thursday.

What will it mean to get rid of the ‘administrative state’? Trump’s first budget will offer a glimpse

August 22, 2019 at 3:36 a.m.

President Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, asserted a bold goal recently, sounding as if he were pitching a plot of an action thriller: "deconstruction of the administrative state." Thursday,...

"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...

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