Sunset in Bears Ears National Monument (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended Thursday that President Trump alter at least three national monuments established by his immediate predecessors, including two in Utah, a move expected to reshape federal land and…

President Donald Trump launched into a Twitter frenzy on Thursday morning, retweeting a meme and sending out typo-laden tweets to his followers — then deleting and tweeting again. The president's morning on Twitter kicked off with a post attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker…

President Trump listens to the roar of his crowd during a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center on August 22, 2017. (Ralph Freso/Getty Images) In the span of 48 hours this week, President Trump has boomeranged among three roles — the commander in chief, the divider and the uniter. Like a contestant…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is expected to tell the Pentagon in coming days how to implement a ban on transgender people in the military, according to a memo that says the defense secretary may decide whether to remove service members based on their ability to deploy, a U.S. official said…

PHOENIX — President Trump on Tuesday stopped short of pardoning former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio but signaled to a boisterous rally crowd here that such a move could be coming soon, saying “I think he’s going to be just fine.” “I won’t do it tonight because I don’t want to cause any controversy,”…

The head of U.S. forces in the Pacific warned adversaries Tuesday not to make any moves against his forces after this year's fourth serious naval accident in Asia raised concerns about the military's preparedness in the region. Speaking a day after Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS John S. McCain…

Daniel Cormier heard the news of UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones ’ positive drug test by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on the first day of a family vacation in Hawaii. In a statement released to the media, Cormier called the news, which potentially could result in his re-taking of the UFC…

The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics are nearing a deal on a trade centered on All-Star guard Kyrie Irving , league sources tell ESPN. An agreement hasn't been finalized but Boston and Cleveland are discussing a deal centered around Irving for point guard Isaiah Thomas , forward Jae…

Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned Wednesday, citing President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville as the final straw that led to his departure. Daniel Kammen. (UC Berkeley) In a resignation letter posted…

A natural gas explosion late Wednesday morning rocked and set ablaze Minnehaha Academy’s upper school in Minneapolis, causing a partial building collapse, killing one and leaving another unaccounted for while injuring at least nine others, school and emergency officials said. Fire Chief John Fruetel…

HYNDMAN, Pa. — A freight train partly derailed early Wednesday in a small town in Pennsylvania, setting three train cars and a garage on fire and prompting emergency officials to evacuate nearby homes. No injuries were reported. Bedford County 911 coordinator Harry Corley said six cars on the CSX…

Stephen Colbert has mocked President Donald Trump over a report in The Washington Post that he “ personally dictated ” his son Donald Trump Jr.’s statement regarding his Russian lawyer meeting. “It’s official, Donald Trump is a dictator,” Colbert said on Tuesday’s broadcast of the “Late Show.”…

Will Packer, the man behind the hit comedy “Girls Trip,” is bringing a new show to Amazon that might give HBO a run for its money. According to the Hollywood Reporter , Packer is teaming up “Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder on “Black America,” a drama set in an alternate history in which freed…

President Trump departed from Air Force One on Friday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Tom Brenner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump said that there is no chaos in his administration as his new chief of staff reports to the White House for his first day on the job, but he continued…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) talks to reporters on Capitol Hill on July 27. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Senate Republican leaders signaled Monday that they intend to move on from health care to other legislative priorities, even as President Trump continued to pressure lawmakers to…

Anthony Scaramucci’s position as White House communications director was as explosive as it was short-lived. The New York native resigned Monday following a whirlwind week that included an expletive-laded, on-the-record rant against members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle. “I’m not Steve…

A GOP strategist and White House veteran warned that the latest round of job shuffling by President Donald Trump likely won’t make much difference. “This White House and the West Wing has functioned like some sort of latter-day zoo,” Steve Schmidt , John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager,…

“Game of Thrones” network HBO has been hit with a cyberattack, making it the latest entertainment company to become compromised by hackers. HBO confirmed in a statement Monday that it experienced a cyber incident that compromised proprietary information. The company said it immediately began to…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intervened in his team’s planned response to the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. had met in 2016 with a lawyer linked to the Russian government , dictating that his son claim the meeting primarily focused on a Russian adoption program, The Washington Post…

President Donald Trump on Monday attempted some damage control on Twitter. It didn’t go well. Amid the turbulence of White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s ouster after only 10 days on the job, top Republicans fretting about a White House in “ chaos ,” and Trump’s continued plunge…

Pedestrians walk past a barricade made by anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday. (Ariana Cubillos/AP) CARACAS, Venezuela — Critics called it “zero hour” for Venezuelan democracy, a tipping point into dictatorship. But after the socialist government here held a widely…

On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril. The…

Story highlights Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio could face up to six months in jail when sentenced on October 5 The sheriff is accused of violating a court order in a racial profiling case by continuing patrols that targeted immigrants (CNN) The man who once boasted he was "America's toughest sheriff,"…

WASHINGTON ― After a week beset by chaos in the White House, President Donald Trump began the new week by insisting in a Monday morning tweet there was “no WH chaos!” Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US Close NOW PLAYING Chelsea And Tomi Go Head-To-Head Things got pretty intense at Politicon 2017 when comedian Chelsea Handler and commentator Tomi Lahren discussed President Donald Trump and his policies. The…