Trump Pardons Ranchers Whose Case Sparked Bundy Takeover Of Oregon Refuge
Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement.
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Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement.
President Trump announced Monday evening that he is nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Roughly half of the children under 5 years old who were separated from their parents at the border will be back with their moms and dads by a court-imposed deadline Tuesday, but the Trump administration is still not sure when the rest will be reunified.
Michael Cohen, the President's former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that "the truth is not you(r) or your client's friend," according to sources with knowledge of Cohen's thinking.
Rudy Giuliani confirmed on Sunday that the White House contested a request from the special counsel to interview White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Health and Human Services is using DNA testing to confirm parentage, which can take time, the government said in a court filing Friday morning.
After midnight Eastern Time on Friday, the U.S. imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, and now the cheese industry is caught in the crossfire of U.S. trade disputes with other countries.
Mr. Trump also frequently complained of trade deficits while touting the good performance of the economy.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday again invoked the imagery of undocumented immigrants as sub-human, this time to warn against the influx of gang members into the US.
"Our Nation shares the sorrow of those affected by the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland," Mr. Trump said in the proclamation released Tuesday morning.
President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, who once said he would do anything to protect the president, told ABC News in an interview released Monday that he now puts "family and country first."
CBS News has learned that D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Chicago Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett are currently Mr. Trump's leading contenders for the appointment to the nation's highest court.
North Korea appears to be finalizing the expansion of a key ballistic missile manufacturing site, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by researchers in the United States.
President Trump took a moment at a White House tax bill event Friday to mourn the five victims of the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
Lawmakers left Washington this week without passing a single bill to address what has been a months-long saga for parents and children who have been separated despite calls from all sides of the political spectrum to act.
Senate Democrats joined protesters outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, vowing to block the president's nominee for the Supreme Court after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement a day earlier.
Bill Shine will likely become the deputy chief of staff in charge of communications.
Trump's summit with Putin is likely to draw criticism from the US President's domestic critics, who accuse him of currying favor with Putin.
The measure aimed to create a new merit-based visa program, appropriate $25 billion for border security, and sought to end family separation at the border by allowing children to remain in DHS custody for longer than 20 days and mandating that their parents be held in DHS custody rather than DOJ custody if they are being prosecuted for border crossing.
Kennedy's retirement gives President Trump his second Supreme Court nomination, following Justice Neil Gorsuch. With this next nomination, he could turn the Supreme Court to the right for a generation.
Congress is getting its first chance Wednesday to grill the FBI agent at the center of the controversy over the FBI's handling of its investigations into Hillary Clinton and Russia.
"I want a vote on tariffs, a serious vote on tariffs," said Sen. Jeff Flake, who like many free-trade Republicans on Capitol Hill has spoken out against Trump's use of tariffs to punish other countries for what he describes as unfair trade practices.
CBS News has obtained cellphone video from inside the Cayuga Centers in New York showing children huddled in what look like classrooms – including one crying girl who couldn't talk to her mother. It's the first unfiltered look inside a facility for separated immigrant children.
If children are younger than 5, they must be reunified within 14 days of the order issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego.
CBS 2's Jim Williams shows how the Muslim travel ban ruling affects families in Chicago with loved ones overseas.
