Trump's absence was another break in convention for a president who has broken so many norms, and one that underscored his separation from much of Washington society.

A group of six U.S. mayors on Monday penned a letter to Congress asking that it pass legislation to block the Trump administration from deploying federal…

The expansive view of presidential authority has been promoted by John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor known for writing the so-called “torture memos” that the George W. Bush administration used to justify using “enhanced interrogation” techniques after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Suburban voters have been growing as a share of the electorate since the mid-1990s, and they have become consequential in presidential elections. They…

President Trump has long been a champion of what's been called positive thinking – the power to make things that you want to see happen actually…

With COVID-19 cases going up in places key to his reelection, and his poll numbers those same places going down, President Trump has been boxed into…

The president linked billions of dollars in federal aid to school districts that reopen fully, but acknowledged that in some coronavirus hotspots, the start of the school year may need to be delayed.

The agreement, which includes $105 billion for schools, is meant to be a starting point for bipartisan talks on a final bill.

Trump says agents will go "into communities plagued by violent crime." He adds the administration has "no choice but to get involved."

A former diplomat at the U.S. embassy says Ambassador Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV told him about the request. "I advised him that doing so would violate federal ethics rules," he tells NPR.