Democrats want Merrick Garland to drop the case against Trump’s former co-defendants. Garland’s refusal to do so could help the president-elect.

Donald Trump is no longer expected to impose a 25 percent tariff on Colombian imports after President Gustavo Petro accepted flights of deported migrants from the U.S.

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

Donald Trump is huddling with House Republicans at a GOP retreat on Monday. Keep up with live updates from the USA TODAY Network.

The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald Trump for special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to "faithfully implement" the president's agenda,

With actions big and small, Trump has spent his first days in office pushing the levers of government – and his unique powers as commander in chief – to target his perceived political enemies both inside and outside the government.

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump for a third time are ramping up as he begins his second term as president. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. The renewed push for Donald Trump's impeachment underscores the deep political divisions in the country and the ongoing fallout from his campaign.

Here’s what to know about the new White House staff secretary seen at the President’s side in the Oval Office.