U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is visiting a military base near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea a day after the North conducted a failed missile launch.
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President Donald Trump harkened back to the free-wheeling style of his unconventional 2016 Republican primary campaign in a 77-minute press conference Thursday during which he touted his poll numbers and took on the “dishonest media.”
Vice Admiral Robert Harward has turned down an offer to be President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, the latest blow to a new administration struggling to find its footing.
First piece of legislation to be introduced by Nevada’s Democratic senator would prevent administration from withholding federal funding from local governments that don’t cooperate with ICE.
Inaugural week in the nation’s capital began Monday as security was being ramped up in preparation for the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.
Northern Ireland’s shattered unity government will be dissolved next week to make way for an early election demanded by the coalition’s main Irish Catholic party, the secretary of state for the British territory announced Monday.
Oman said Monday it accepted 10 detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office, part of his efforts to shrink the facility he promised to close.
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Republican U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney to be director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a senior transition official said Friday.