Days before Thanksgiving last year, President Donald Trump made an unannounced and previously unscheduled trip to Walter Reed medical center. The White House said the trip was for a “quick exam and labs.” We still don’t know why he actually went — or what the outcome of his visit was.
A former White supremacist store and Ku Klux Klan meeting space is being turned into a community center to promote healing
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A South Carolina preacher and local resident are turning what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center dedicated to educating and fighting against racial injustice. Deep in Laurens stands the h...
A locked-down DC prepares for Biden’s swearing-in
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As the nation's capital locks down amid increased concerns of violence, the Trump White House is packing up. After four years and two impeachments, President Donald Trump is now making plans for his exit from the pr...
Biden elevates White House science post to Cabinet level
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President-elect Joe Biden is elevating the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet-level position, a move that highlights the emphasis the incoming administration plans to pu...
Is Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP slipping?
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In the wake of a mini-rebellion among House Republicans -- 10 of whom sided with Democrats to impeach Donald Trump this week -- there are some signs that the death grip that the President has maintained over the GOP...
Trump’s Pentagon chief says he ‘cannot wait to leave’ his job
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Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who will leave office in less than a week. stated that he 'cannot wait to leave this job," according to a transcript released by the Department of Defense. The admis...
Taxidermy and a Lincoln bust among departing White House effects
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A pheasant took flight from the White House Thursday afternoon. Toted by Debbie Meadows, wife of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the taxidermy bird was moved out of Meadows' West Wing office, among other b...
The world will take away a tragic truth from Biden’s inauguration
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This was excerpted from the January 15 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. There'll be no arguments about crow...
The world’s top environmental organizations are still predominantly White, a new report finds
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The movement for a cleaner, greener world has grown increasingly popular as the climate crisis has worsened, and organizations such as Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund, now household names, have raised millions to...
Trailblazing firefighter hopes to inspire unity when she recites Pledge of Allegiance at Biden’s inauguration
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Washington When Andrea Hall leads the nation in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at Joe Biden's inauguration next week, she'll not only represent the kind of progress envisioned by the incoming president but she'll ...
Ex-Obama official who helped fix botched healthcare.gov rollout to join Biden’s Covid-19 team
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Andy Slavitt, the former acting chief of Medicare and Medicaid under the Obama administration, is expected to join President-elect Joe Biden's Covid-19 team in a senior advisory role, CNN has learned. Slavitt's ro...
DC attorney general wants to interview Donald Trump Jr. as part of Trump inaugural funds abuse probe
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The DC attorney general's office has notified President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., that it would like to interview him as part of its investigation into misuse of his father's inaugural funds, a spokesper...
‘The Masked Dancer’ reveals the identity of the Moth
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"The Masked Dancer" has revealed the identity of the Moth. During Wednesday night's episode, the Zebra, the Moth, the Cotton Candy and the Sloth remained in Group B. Judges Ken Jeong, Brian Austin Green, Paula Abdul...