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President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, who now serves at the Department of Justice, penned a letter trashing former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon after she resigned.

Sassoon, a Federalist Society member who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, reportedly opposed the Justice Department's order to drop the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

TOPEKA — A pair of House Republicans entertained a hypothetical act of violence toward a former representative Thursday as they acted out a traditional hazing ritual for new legislators.

Wichita Republican Rep. Patrick Penn performed the custom of grilling freshman lawmakers as they present legislation on the House floor for the first time. Rep. Kyler Sweely, a Republican representing Hutchinson who defeated Democratic incumbent Jason Probst in November, was the subject of Penn’s interrogation. Penn and Sweely have a shared history of serving in the U.S. Army in the Middle East and knowledge of the intricacies of combat.

Fox News cut away from President Donald Trump's lengthy press conference after he slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) mental capacity.

During an Oval Office event on Thursday, Trump threatened to place reciprocal tariffs on countries, insisted that Canada had to become the 51st state, and ranted about the 2020 election being "rigged."

President Donald Trump triggered a fresh wave of outrage on social media Thursday after he once again treated reporters to a rant about how Canada ought to be taken by the United States as a new state.

The idea, an increasing obsession of Trump's as he also fixates on acquiring Greenland from Denmark and retaking control of the Panama Canal Zone, was reiterated shortly after Trump signed a new plan for "reciprocal tariffs" on other countries with barriers to trade.

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney appointed by President Donald Trump, quit Thursday after being told to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — and her action elicited cheers from legal experts.

The New York Times first reported her decision, saying she refused to "obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams." However, her mass email to colleagues didn't reference that case.

A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Manhattan is resigning her post rather than carry out a Justice Department order to dismiss the criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Danielle R. Sassoon, who has been serving as the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and was overseeing the case into Adams, made the announcement on Thursday, The New York Times reported.

One of X owner Elon Musk's proposed initiatives at the Department of Government Efficiency has been to sell off buildings used by government workers for a quick injection of cash into federal coffers.

However, as The American Prospect's David Dayen explains, the timing of such a sale could be bad at the moment given the current precarious state of the commercial real estate market.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are acting as co-chief executives, according to a global business analyst — but she warned those partnerships never last.

The tech mogul stood over the president, who was seated at the Resolute Desk, during a news conference this week in the Oval Office, where Musk outlined his broad plans for remaking the federal government as Trump nodded in agreement, and business analyst Rana Foroohar told CNN's Pamela Brown the pair held an unusual position in U.S. government.

Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), confirmed that the Trump administration has set up a "tip line" for companies to snitch on employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) who are doing their jobs despite a work stoppage order.

Last week, Vought ordered agency staffers to stop all work, and the bureau's headquarters was shuttered. President Donald Trump also fired Director Rohit Chopra. The CFPB's union said that dozens of employees were also fired.

The Trump administration has barred the Associated Press from the daily reporter briefing for the third day in a row, CNN's Brian Stelter reported on Thursday.

The exclusion of the Associate Press is a retaliation campaign against the wire service's refusal to update its language policies to reflect Trump's executive order proclaiming that the Gulf of Mexico is hereby known as the "Gulf of America."