A guide to the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s early infighting.

There were 36 hours of mad frenzy as TikTok executives and lawyers sought and failed to get a last-minute reprieve from Biden — and then landed one from Trump.

The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an ...

A memo from the White House's Office of Personnel Management criticized "virtually unrestricted" telework and laid out next steps for agency heads.

Some U.S. House Republicans in California are breaking with Speaker Mike Johnson over his suggestion that federal disaster ...

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported a surge in leaked government documents regarding Trump's DEIA executive order.

The pardons, Trump said in the Oval Office, will go to 23 “peaceful protestors” who were prosecuted under the Biden administration.

Unredacted affidavit contains previously unreported allegation about Pete Hegseth's behavior toward second wife Hegseth has denied all allegations in the affidavit, which was written by his former ...

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes ...

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