A former federal prosecutor and Texas Republican, Ratcliffe gained prominence as a staunch defender of Trump as a congressman.

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The Trump administration's removal of the Spanish-language White House website has sparked criticism from Latino leaders and advocacy groups ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies ...

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

President Donald Trump plans to speak remotely Thursday to an international audience of business leaders, politicians and other elites at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos, Switzerland.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal disaster aid for wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles unless California ...

Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency is John Ratcliffe, who formerly served as Director of National ...

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US President Donald Trump asked federal workers to inform on each other, slammed Vladimir Putin, and toughened immigration.

Trump has called the diversity and inclusion programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” ...