Anne Gearan

The sanctions block access to financial or other assets in the United States for seven top figures around Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The president is pushing to reclaim America’s global leadership after four years of Trump’s insults and snubs. But allies worry the U.S. could easily return to Trumpism.

The president’s statement has no immediate practical effect, but it puts his administration on record as backing a key political priority of Benjamin Netanyahu just three weeks before Israel’s national elections.

Analysis: The president’s worldview has been boiled down to a mantra lacking labels and ideology: It is what Trump says it is.

The White House did not release details of the exam and did not say whether more details would be released later.

In the first moments of the speech, Trump declared he had made more progress than “almost any other administration in the history of our country” - prompting audible laughs in the cavernous U.N. chamber. A startled-looking Trump appeared thrown off-balance for a moment.

Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have operated in violation of what the White House said Tuesday was "very specific guidance" that members of the Obama administration use government email accounts to carry out official business.

In an effort to free American captive Bowe Bergdahl before the bulk of U.S. forces leave Afghanistan this year, the Obama administration has decided to try to resume talks with the Taliban and sweeten an offer to trade Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the JBER Army sergeant, current and former officials said.

WASHINGTON -- A long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report released Wednesday faulted both the State Department and the intelligence community for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, about 16 months ago.

President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of $789,674, the White House said Friday.

The massacre of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier newly undermines the rationale for a war that a majority of Americans already thought wasn’t worth fighting. But the Obama administration and its allies insist the horrific episode will not speed plans to pull out foreign forces.