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Two officials familiar with the matter say the man who was shot and wounded near the White House by a uniformed Secret Service officer Monday had been threatening to kill people

A uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man during a confrontation near the White House that led to President Donald Trump being abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference Monday, authorities said.

A coronavirus press briefing was interrupted when a Secret Service agent abruptly ushered President Donald Trump offstage. When Trump returned to the press briefing, he confirmed that a person had been shot outside of the White House.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he was considering Gettysburg or the White House as the site of his nomination acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention in two weeks. “We have narrowed the Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, to be delivered on the final night of the Convention (Thursday), to two locations – The Great Battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and...

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that he thinks there is “a degree” of airborne spread of the coronavirus, although the role it plays is still being studied.

The top White House negotiators are set to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol on the next coronavirus relief package

Melania Trump has announced plans to renovate the White House Rose Garden

Reporters ask questions, and Kayleigh McEnany stands at the podium to respond

The White House is conducting contract tracing after a cafeteria worker tested positive for coronavirus, three Trump administration officials tell NBC News. The cafeteria in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, or EEOB, was closed this week after the case was discovered, officials said. It was unclear how long the facility will remain closed, although some staffers were told it could...

President Donald Trump is warning that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday offered a blunt response to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who called her a “derelict mayor” during a press briefing.

The newspaper USA Today says that presidential aide Peter Navarro’s column about Dr. Anthony Fauci that it solicited and published did not meet its fact-checking standards

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Thursday, “When [President Trump] says ‘open,’ he means open and full… The science should not stand in the way of this.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the White House’s attempts to discredit him are “a bit bizarre” and “it doesn’t do anything but reflect poorly on them.” “I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that. I think they realize now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it’s only reflecting...

The National Security Council sent a list of allegations about Lt. Col. Alex Vindman to the Pentagon after he testified before the House in impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, according to one person who has seen the document and two others briefed on it. The Pentagon received the document, which alleged Vindman created a hostile work environment at the NSC, as he...

White House officials are asking hospitals to bypass the nation’s top health agency in a bid to take over case tracking from the CDC. Hospitals are being asked to send daily reports to a new system set up by the administration in a move that some worry could lead to further politicization of the pandemic.

The White House is seeking to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, as President Donald Trump works to marginalize him and his dire warnings about the shortcomings in the U.S. coronavirus response, NBC News reports.

Written by President Donald Trump’s niece, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” levels new allegations against the president.

Some White House officials are privately expressing frustration over President Trump’s recent embrace of a message stoking racial and cultural divisions. The Trump allies are telling him that he has a better argument to make and to focus on his accomplishments in office and offer sharp criticism of his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, said two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity...

House Democrats said they still have unanswered questions after a briefing from White House officials on the report that Russia was placing bounties on US troops in Afghanistan.