A federal judge stiffened her order blocking President Trump from carrying out his general government funding pause by issuing a preliminary injunction Tuesday.

New leadership at the FBI is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency's plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover "honeypot" agents.

The White House announced Tuesday it will decide which news outlets cover the president as part of the "pool" allowed into news events in locations such as the Oval Office or trips on Air Force One that cannot accommodate the full press corps, taking that long-held power from the independent White House Correspondents' Association.

Elon Musk will attend President Trump's first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as reports surface that Cabinet officials are growing weary of his unbridled approach toward slashing the federal bureaucracy.