John Wagner Seung Min Kim The Washington Post

President Donald Trump on Thursday backed down from his controversial push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, effectively conceding defeat in a battle he had revived last week and promised to continue despite a recent string of legal defeats.

After pledging for years to construct a solid wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration, President Donald Trump appears to be backing away from that promise.

The Senate voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the Supreme Court's 114th justice on Saturday by one of the narrowest margins in the institution's history, as police stood guard and protesters' shouts of "shame, shame" echoed through the Senate chamber.

A bitterly divided Senate cleared the way for Brett Kavanaugh to become the next Supreme Court justice as President Donald Trump's nominee secured the support of a handful of wavering senators in a tumultuous confirmation fight.

US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the FBI to reopen the investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's background, a stunning turnaround in an emotional battle over sexual assault allegations that has shaken the Senate and reverberated across the country.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Gina Haspel as the next CIA director after several Democrats were persuaded to support her despite lingering concerns about the role she played in the brutal interrogation of suspected terrorists captured after 9/11.

President Donald Trump on Thursday backed down from his controversial push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, effectively conceding defeat in a battle he had revived last week and promised to continue despite a recent string of legal defeats.

After pledging for years to construct a solid wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration, President Donald Trump appears to be backing away from that promise.

The Senate voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the Supreme Court's 114th justice on Saturday by one of the narrowest margins in the institution's history, as police stood guard and protesters' shouts of "shame, shame" echoed through the Senate chamber.

A bitterly divided Senate cleared the way for Brett Kavanaugh to become the next Supreme Court justice as President Donald Trump's nominee secured the support of a handful of wavering senators in a tumultuous confirmation fight.

US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the FBI to reopen the investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's background, a stunning turnaround in an emotional battle over sexual assault allegations that has shaken the Senate and reverberated across the country.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Gina Haspel as the next CIA director after several Democrats were persuaded to support her despite lingering concerns about the role she played in the brutal interrogation of suspected terrorists captured after 9/11.