Ed Martin Jr., who will be the Justice Department's new pardon attorney after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said Tuesday that he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the White House.

President Trump kicked off his Middle East trip Tuesday burnishing his reputation as a deal-maker and establishing a U.S. policy for the region built on economic and investment ties.

President Trump accepted a luxury 747 jumbo jet from Qatar after years of delays and massive budget overruns at Boeing, which has struggled to build replacements for the aging Air Force One.

The group representing White House journalists said Monday it was disturbed that the Trump administration barred any wire service news reporters from traveling with the president on Air Force One to the Middle East.

Dozens of protesters and disability advocates were arrested for disrupting a House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting to fine-tune legislation that includes Medicaid cuts.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump was largely on solid legal footing in using the Alien Enemies Act to try to deport some illegal-immigrant gang members, though the court said the administration does need to give deportation targets better notice ahead of time.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is planning to meet with Sen. Elizabeth Warren after declining the Massachusetts Democrat's invitation to appear at an anti-Trump forum.

The tax portion of House Republicans' "one big beautiful bill" is estimated to cost just under $4 trillion, roughly half a trillion under the Ways and Means Committee's instruction for the package.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he expects to have a deal on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap on Wednesday, after both sides of the tenuous negotiations reported progress following a Tuesday afternoon meeting. Johnson said the group was waiting on the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the scorekeeper for Congress, to do...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg held a town hall in the influential early-contest state of Iowa on Tuesday, potentially fueling added speculation about another presidential run for the prominent Democrat. Buttigieg held the town hall with VoteVets, a progressive political action committee advocating on issues like national security and veterans’ care, in Cedar Rapids, marking...