Trump wants to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs. ‘I don’t think we should give California anything,’ he said

A National Security Council spokesperson has denied that NSC staffers are being vetted for political affiliations

Resettlement groups blindsided by immediate and indefinite suspension of refugee program

Trump is threatening unspecified sanctions on Moscow if Russian president Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table ‘soon’

Trump also suggested the former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio had been sentenced unfairly for his seditious conspiracy conviction

Trump’s willingness to speak to the press shows he understands the modern media environment in a way his predecessor never did, Andrew Feinberg writes

Biden issued the sweeping pardons just minutes before he departed the White House for the final time as president

The 47th president denounced the government he now leads as having been captured by ‘a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens’

Trump has declared an emergency at the southern border and rolled back trans rights as he signs dozens of executive orders from the Oval Office

Outgoing president issues advanced reprieves before leaving White House

Exclusive: The Project 2025 plan to have the incoming Trump administration roles filled from day one appears to have spectacularly failed

The Independent’s political editor David Maddox and White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg were at the Hay Adams hotel opposite the White House as Brexiteer Brits hosted the biggest inauguration party in town and plotted a populist future with their US allies