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President Donald Trump has removed the judiciary from the Government on the White House website. Until now, and in every mainstream account of the politics of the US, the Government is made up of three branches. Those are made up of the executive, represented by the President; the legislative...

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump's new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell...

President Donald Trump has remained firm on the implementation of an executive order which temporarily bans all refugees and people from seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Mr. Trump disclosed this journalists at the White House on Sunday He defended the move...

Donald Trump should be blocked from making his planned state visit to the UK as long as his "Muslim ban" policy remains in place, Jeremy Corbyn has said. The Labour leader said Theresa May should not be endorsing Mr Trump until it was clear his Government was "actually going to protect...

Drivers from the New York Taxi Worker's Alliance refused to work at New York's JFK Airport for an hour in solidarity with those protesting the detention of refugees and legal immigrants to the United States following the country's dramatic new travel bans. Earlier in the day, the NYTWA issued a...

Federal judge Ann Donnelly of the Eastern District of New York has handed an early victory to the lawyers challenging President Trump’s executive order barring immigrants and travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. Judge Donnelly announced during an emergency...

California has announced a proposal, called “Calexit” that would establish it as a separate nation from the U.S., officials have said. The proposal for California to secede from the U.S. was submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday, according to a report. The proposed “Calexit”...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bashed US President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies and his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. Trump in his first week at the White house signed executive orders for the border wall, withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities and...

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have scheduled to speak on the phone tomorrow (Saturday) in their first conversation since Trump took office. Trump has vowed to have better relations with Russia than his predecessor. This month, he suggested he would lift...

For Donald Trump, the start of his first full week in office amounted to a reset after a tumultuous weekend dominated by his and his spokesman’s false statements about inauguration crowds and their vigorous complaints about media coverage of the celebrations. On Monday, the new president tried...

Donald Trump delivered a mostly conciliatory, occasionally combative inaugural address on Friday after being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. Trump’s 16-minute speech, delivered just after noon ET on Friday in front of a packed crowd outside of the Capitol in...

As US President Obama prepares to turn the White House over to President-elect Donald Trump next Friday, has offered his successor some tips on how to be a president. Excerpts of Obama’s advice to Trump were broadcast on Friday in his recorded interview with CBS News’ Steve Kroft for “60...

US President-elect Donald Trump has accepted the country’s intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election, his incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus said on Sunday. He said the president-elect, Trump may take action in response...

The Canadian authorities have suspended a judge for wearing a cap with Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” in court after November’s US presidential election, local media reported Friday. Ontario Court Judge Bernd Zabel “stopped being assigned to preside in court December...

Mild drama as United States Congress certified Friday that Donald Trump won the November election to become the 45th president of the United States, as lawmakers counted and affirmed the votes from the Electoral College. Three protesters interrupted the announcement but they were swiftly...

Michelle Obama gave her final White House remarks in an emotional speech Friday, thanking her supporters and saying, "being your first lady has been the greatest honour of my life and I hope I've made you proud." "I want our young people to know that they matter, that they belong," Obama said...

Touching video showed how two-year-old Bowdy Shoff helped his brother Brock from underneath a chest of drawers that fell when the twins were playing on it. Parents Kayli and Ricky, from Utah in the United States shared the video in order to spread awareness about the importance of bolting down...

About nineteen states are raising the minimum wage today in a shift that stands to lift the income of millions of workers. The minimum wage will be increased in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said “RIP” to the outgoing US administration of Barack Obama on Twitter on Friday, after the White House decided to expel 35 Russian diplomats. “It is regrettable that the Obama administration, which started out by restoring our ties, is ending its term in...

President-elect, Donald Trump has said that his administration will follow two simple rules when he takes over the mantle of seat at the White House on January 20, 2017. He said on his social media account that he will focus on “Buy American and Hire American” policy. “My Administration will...