President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

# If the American system needed a shake-up, it might be at hand. # The list of changes Trump and his many devoted associates have instituted is, and is certainly meant to be, mind-blowing. And the ...

Three of President Donald Trump's cabinet picks prepared to face skepticism and intense grilling from Democratic senators during their confirmation hearings Thursday.

Republicans can’t lose more than three votes if all Democrats are opposed.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan.

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence had a particularly controversial trip to the Middle East that members of ...

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, testifies Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The president signed an executive order that targets those who took part in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses last year.

Trump’s order also has the effect of blocking most forms of diversity training. That’s hardly a loss. Study after study has shown that diversity training is often an expensive, divisive waste of time.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department ...

Brazil's Foreign Ministry said in a statement it was seeking answers from Washington regarding the "degrading treatment" of ...