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Several amendments to the House's annual defense policy bill aim to curb President Trump and his family members from potentially using their new political clout for business profits.
THE TOPLINE: After a grueling nine-month campaign, the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq's prime minister declared victory Monday over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Mosul.
Donald Trump's plan to forge a cyber security unit with Russia to protect the US from potential election hacking in future has been roundly criticized.
President Donald Trump declared on Twitter that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit." | Getty
Women criticizing Ivanka Trump's inclusion in the G20 summit are bad feminists, according to Donald Trump's former deputy campaign manager.
Several amendments to the annual defense policy bill seek to curb U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led campaign in the Yemen civil war.
The amendments come as Saudi Arabia's conduct in the war and the region at large comes under increasing scrutiny in Congress, including a closer-than-expected vote in the Senate that would have blocked an arms sale to the country.
Nearly six months into his presidency, President Donald Trump declined yet again Thursday to state definitively that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.
WASHINGTON West Coast lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to alter its approach toward North Korea after Pyongyang's successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska, and possibly other parts of the United States.
The trouble is, they can't agree on what that alteration should look like.
President Donald Trump has spent 35 of his 165 days in office playing golf—far more than his predecessors, according to reports.
After a global ransomware attack extending from Russia to the U.S.