white house

United States president Donald Trump said Friday he will “most likely” be tested for the novel coronavirus, as questions swirled about why he, his top aides and his family weren’t doing more to protect themselves and others after repeated exposure to COVID-19. Trump has now had multiple direct and indirect contacts with people who have […]

Iran has threatened to attack the White House in response to President Donald Trump’s warning that any strike on American interests in the region will bring massive retaliation. The threat was issued by Iranian MP, Abolfazl Abutorabi during an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, the country’s Labour News Agency reports President Donald Trump […]

Watch the video below, a White House officials explains why Trump defied calls from SADC leaders to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe. The renewal of sanctions against the Zimbabwean government now led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a slap in the face for SADC whose leaders have intensified their demands for the scrapping of the measures […]

President Donald Trump says he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, to serve in the same role. Trump says that Barr is “a terrific man” and “one of the most respected jurists in the country” and says, “I think he will serve with great distinction.” He also says Barr was […]

Although Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Speculation is mounting that Hillary Clinton could launch a bid for the US presidency in 2020 after two former advisers in as many months floated the idea of a remarkable political comeback. Mark Penn, a former adviser to the Clintons, and Andrew Stein, a […]

The US Secret Service has responded to reports of gunshots outside the White House. The agency’s Twitter account reads: “Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of [The White House].” It goes on to say medical personnel were responding to the male victim and […]

Donald Trump is expected to remain physically fit for the duration of his presidency and has “no cognitive issues whatsoever,” according to full results from his first medical examination released Tuesday. Trump’s critics have openly questioned his mental health, and an explosive book on his presidency published earlier this month described aides as having doubts about […]

The White House on Monday rejected calls for a congressional investigation of claims Donald Trump sexually harassed women, saying the American people had spoken on the matter by electing him president. Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on Trump to resign, meanwhile, echoing a demand made the previous day by two other Senate Democrats, while a […]

Some prominent U.S. legislators are calling on the White House to send the Uzbek man accused of killing eight people in a New York truck attack to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Donald Trump said on November 1 that he is considering doing so, which would require him first to designate […]

Washington Post National Correspondent Philip Bump (@pbump) made a graphic timeline on how one largely debunked assertion made by Trump led to a series of missteps and misstatements by the White House, which cascaded into a bad week for the President and his team.