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The Justice Department has set its sights on New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as part of an ongoing effort to carry out a revenge campaign against President Donald Trump’s perceived foes. However, the DOJ lawyer leading the charge doesn’t appear to have all his ducks in a row.

Appellate lawyer Sean Marotta responded to a New York Times report about Edward Martin, the man now at the helm of the so-called "weaponization" effort. Trump claims the DOJ was “weaponized” against him, and Martin will now use it to target Trump’s enemies.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is alienating his colleagues on Capitol Hill, a Tuesday report from NBC News revealed.

According to reporters, Hawley's efforts to bring economic populism to the U.S. Senate are coming into conflict with his GOP colleagues.

Morale is already low at the FBI, but an analyst warned things are about to get worse.

The FBI typically has a director and deputy director to lead the federal law enforcement agency, but pairing Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director alongside former conservative podcast host Dan Bongino "isn't normal at all," according to MSNBC's Steve Benen.

In a call with Fox & Friends on Tuesday, President Donald Trump discussed at length his ongoing efforts to end the war in Ukraine and then appeared to forget the name of a major body of water.

Trump was asked by Fox News’ Lawrence Jones about the several European leaders who attended Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Monday, and whether they had said anything to Trump in private.

President Donald Trump's ploy to bully Senate Republicans into dropping a longstanding rule about presidential nominations appears to have crashed and burned, Politico reported on Tuesday — with lawmakers holding their ground against him in a way they generally dare not do.

The drama began in July, when Trump lashed out at 91-year-old Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA), calling him "weak and ineffective" and demanding he axe "blue slips," the tradition that committees must have the approval of a nominee's home state senators to advance a nominee.

Donald Trump revealed that he didn't want to be "disrespectful" to Russian President Vladimir Putin by calling him in front of European Union leaders.

During a Tuesday interview on Fox & Friends, host Charlie Hurt asked the U.S. president about reports that he had interrupted a meeting with European leaders about Ukraine to speak to Putin by phone.

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was forced to spend the night Monday inside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin after she refused to sign a "permission slip" to accept the mandatory escort by the Department of Public Safety imposed on Democrats by the Republicans who control the chamber.

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced the restrictions on members of the Democratic caucus earlier in the day after Democrats returned after a two-week hiatus out of state to prevent quorum in the House as a way to block a controversial mid-decade redistricting effort by the GOP that aims to hand the party up to five more seats in midterm congressional elections next year as a favor to President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump's wrangling on the world stage over Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pitting two of his administration's most prominent figures — and potential successors — against each other under the guise of cooperation, Politico reported on Tuesday.

All of this comes as Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska resulted in no tangible steps toward peace — and as European leaders gathered at the White House at the start of the week to effectively stage an intervention in favor of America's continued defense of Ukraine and NATO.

President Donald Trump blurted out a new revelation Tuesday regarding the United States’ minerals deal with Ukraine while on the phone with Fox News, revealing previously unknown details about the lucrative agreement.

Back in April, Trump reached a deal with Ukraine that would see the United States support reconstruction of the country following the Russo-Ukraine War in exchange for access to the nation’s ample supply of valuable rare earths, including titanium, iron ore and lithium.

Veteran White House correspondents trashed their conservative colleagues as unprofessional during a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

After Trump's election, The White House took control of the press pool allowed into the Oval Office and other smaller spaces and, although MAGA pundit Brian Glenn had not been assigned to the pool, White House aides allowed him into Monday's event — where he dominated the question-and-answer session with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, reported CNN.

Donald Trump's apparent obsession with protecting birds from wind turbines is nothing more than a petty grudge masquerading as environmental concern, critics say.

During a recent appearance with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump's Scottish golf course, the president ranted that windmills are "a disaster" that "kill all your birds." His Interior Secretary Doug Burgum quickly fell in line, tweeting that "wind projects are known to kill eagles" while announcing investigations into turbine impacts on bird populations.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough highlighted a "remarkable" development from President Donald Trump's meeting with European leaders to discuss ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Trump said that Russia had agreed the U.S. and European countries could provide "NATO-like" security guarantees to Ukraine, which the "Morning Joe" host described as nothing short of "historic."

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his friend during a heated political argument about Donald Trump's business failures now faces the possibility of dying behind bars after a jury convicted him of murder.

Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing Shawn Popp in what authorities describe as a shocking example of how political divisions can turn deadly, The Guardian reported.