WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump delivered some of the most incendiary comments of his presidency on Monday, signaling that he intends to build his reelection bid as much around divisive racial and cultural issues as on low unemployment and economic growth.

The rhetoric sparked unusual pushback from several Republicans, and led to a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration moved Monday to in effect end asylum for the vast majority of migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, an enormous shift in policy that could block hundreds of thousands of people from seeking protection in the U.S. -- and is certain to draw legal challenges.

The new rule, published in the Federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Four liberal House Democrats on Monday lambasted President Donald Trump's tweets as "xenophobic," "bigoted" and unworthy of the White House in an unusual standoff between first-year House lawmakers and a U.S. president.

"This is the agenda of white nationalists," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who accused Trump of trying to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her three allies in Congress said verbal attacks from President Donald Trump won't distract them from their agenda as they decried his tweets as racist.

"I am not surprised that he uses the rhetoric he does," Ocasio-Cortez said of the president. "But I also know that we are focused."

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WASHINGTON -- While Democrats were united in their condemnation of President Donald Trump's call for four members of Congress to "go back" to "the crime infested countries from which they came," nearly no Republicans had publicly rebuked the president a day after his Sunday tirade.

On the Republican side of the aisle, condemnations of Trump for...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who cross the U.S. southern border as he steps up a crackdown on immigration.

Migrants who fail to apply for protection from persecution or torture while in a third country before entering the U.S. would be ineligible for asylum, under a rule...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Go back where you came from.

It's an insulting remark sometimes flung at new arrivals to the United States, at foreign-born U.S. citizens -- or at those who are native-born but belong to an ethnic minority. It's usually considered a racist taunt.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump denounced " 'progressive' Democrat Congresswomen ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump made a new broadside against a faction of progressive Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, suggesting they return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came."

Trump's remarks sparked immediate outrage from Democrats. Representative Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico decried "a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clear his administration to start using Pentagon funds for construction of more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.

Filing an emergency request Friday, the president asked the justices to lift a freeze on the money while a legal fight with the Sierra Club and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on President Donald Trump to commit to paying the District of Columbia back for providing public safety support for federal events in the city after Mayor Muriel Bowser said that Trump's "Salute to America" drained it.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's testimony before Congress, planned for Wednesday, could be delayed one week amid new discussions to allow more time during the hearing for lawmakers to ask questions.

House leaders had agreed to have Mueller testify in two committees for two hours each, relatively short by congressional ...Read more

When Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf tipped residents off last year that immigration agents would be conducting enforcement operations, President Donald Trump called her actions a "disgrace."

A Republican congressman from Iowa proposed criminal penalties for officials in so-called sanctuary cities who make similar disclosures.

The acting ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook Inc. over its plan to create a digital currency, the Libra.

"Facebook Libra's 'virtual currency' will have little standing or dependability. If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for House Democrats are looking at a New York law that would give them a route to access President Donald Trump's state tax returns.

"The House counsel is reviewing all of that right now," House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said Thursday. "They still have some legitimate concerns about it. That comes from House ...Read more