Donald Trump jumped to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire moments after it was announced on Wednesday, despite the fact that he was not in office for the duration of the conflict. But his instinct may not be far off: A diplomat briefed on the negotiations credited their sudden progress to the incoming forty-seventh president, reported

During the confirmation hearing for Trump's OMB nominee, Russell Vought in the Senate this week, Senator Mark Warner lost it on Vought over his past comments.

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants , less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON — As President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, took questions from senators Wednesday, only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults were "extremely" or "very" confident ...

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

The White House has rescinded the freeze on federal grants and loans after facing furious backlash from both sides of the aisle. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Since October, the Biden administration has sent about $121 million in taxpayer funds to UNRWA, the U.N. agency under scrutiny for its alleged ties to Hamas, the State Department said Tuesday.

CAIRO (AP) — Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said Tuesday. Mediators from the ...

Russell Vought, Mr. Trump's pick to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

In a fact-finding mission spurred by rumors of abuse and self-burnings at a Virginia supermax prison, a Richmond legislator toured the facility firsthand this week, renewing calls for oversight ...