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President Trump on Friday evening voiced his support for Texas churches receiving disaster relief money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following Hurricane Harvey. "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others)," Trump wrote on Twitter.  Three churches damaged as Hurricane Harvey made landfall filed

President Trump is set to nominate Paul Trombino III to lead the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the White House announced Friday. Trump's nominee is currently the head of a civil engineering company that specializes in transportation, aviation, water and structures projects.  ADVERTISEMENT Trombino previously served as the director of Iowa's Department of Transportation from 2011 to 2016. He also served as president of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials during his tenure as the head

Interim White House communications director Hope Hicks has retained a personal lawyer amid the ongoing Russia investigation, Politico reports. Hicks has hired Robert Trout of the Trout Cacheris & Janis law firm, sources told the newspaper. Trout previously served at the Justice Department and as a former assistant U.S.

The United States told the United Nations Security Council late Friday that it plans to call a meeting Monday to vote on a draft resolution establishing more sanctions on North Korea, officials announced. "This evening, the United States informed the UN Security Council that it intends to call a meeting to vote on a draft resolution to establish additional sanctions on North Korea on Monday," the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said in a statement. The U.S. is pushing for the U.N.

Vice President Pence is reportedly slated to travel to his home state of Indiana later this month as the Trump administration makes its case for tax reform. Pence is set to visit the Hoosier State on Sept. 22, a senior administration official told Politico, which reported he will seek to put pressure on Sen.

BRISTOL, Va. — For seven years, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives followed an unwritten policy: If you needed to buy something for one of your cases, do not bother asking Washington. Talk to agents in Bristol, Va., who controlled a multimillion-dollar account unrestricted by Congress or the bureaucracy. Need a flashy BMW for an undercover operation? Call Bristol. A vending machine with a hidden camera? Bristol. Travel expenses? Take this credit card.

BRISTOL, Va. — For seven years, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives followed an unwritten policy: If you needed to buy something for one of your cases, do not bother asking Washington. Talk to agents in Bristol, Va., who controlled a multimillion-dollar account unrestricted by Congress or the bureaucracy. Need a flashy BMW for an undercover operation? Call Bristol. A vending machine with a hidden camera? Bristol. Travel expenses? Take this credit card.

Lost in the scramble to cope with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the response to North Korea’s nuclear provocations and the shock at President Trump’s instant alliance with Democrats was a little-noticed bureaucratic earthquake that shook the White House this week. At a staff meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Trump’s new chief of staff, John F.

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s mercurial politics are already rattling Republicans heading into the 2018 midterm campaign, sparking Trump-like primary challenges in two high-profile Senate races and a host of lower-profile House contests, while pushing a growing number of moderate House members to the exits. On Thursday night, Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, a leader of the House Republican moderates, announced that he had had enough, following Representatives Dave Reichert of Washington and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida to a Trump-free retirement. Trump-inspired candidates have