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Despite the Constitution's two-term limit, Trump had mused for months about a third term.

The court ruled that Bill Essayli had been acting "unlawfully" as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles but that he could stay on as the office's top deputy for now.

Judges in the Ninth Circuit voted to have a larger panel reconsider a decision that could have allowed President Trump to use soldiers at the Portland, Ore., immigration building.

The departures of the head of the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition Service and a senior policy adviser spurred worries on Capitol Hill as food aid benefits could halt.

The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency, was established by Congress to advise the president on urban planning and historical preservation.

The funding was part of a bipartisan measure that Congress approved in response to school shootings, but the Trump administration argued that the grants violated civil rights law.

A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president's trade war.

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.

In a crowded field of would-be successors, Brilyn Hollyhand hopes to capture the minds of young conservatives across America.

Three Republican senators whose votes would be needed to advance Amer Ghalib's nomination said they would oppose him, all but assuring it would stall.