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The White House is appealing a federal judge’s decision from earlier this month to restore the hard pass of Playboy's correspondent Brian Karem. The Trump administration suspended Karem’s credentials after a raucous incident in July in which he got in argument with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka following a Rose…

UPDATED with Grisham reaction: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the hard pass of Playboy's correspondent Brian Karem, whose credentials were suspended after a raucous incident in July in which he got in argument with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka following a Rose Garden ceremony. U.S…

2ND UPDATE, 3:26 PM: In her decision to suspend the hard pass of Playboy’s White House correspondent Brian Karem, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham cited remarks from a Secret Service agent who intervened as Karem exchanged heated words with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka during a Rose Garden event last…

One day after Taylor Swift made a public appeal for the White House to acknowledge her petition supporting the Equality Act, the Trump administration has responded, saying the legislation is filled with “poison pills.” Monday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, Swift won the Video of the Year trophy for "You Need to…

In the latest link between the White House and Fox Corp., former White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah has taken a senior vice president position at the media company. Shah will continue to be based in Washington and will report to Fox Chief Legal and Policy Officer Viet Dinh. He had left the White House early…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hasn’t held an official news conference in three months, and now she might not do any more. President Donald Trump announced via Twitter today that the woman who took over the podium from Sean Spicer in July 2017 will leave the administration at month’s end. The…

Hope Hicks and her former White House colleague, Annie Donaldson, have been directed by the White House not to co-operate with subpoenas from a House committee investigating allegations of obstruction of justice. Hicks headed communications for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign before going on to hold a senior post…

The White House has declined a request by two House Democrats for documents that could show whether President Donald Trump tried to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter dated Monday to Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and antitrust subcommittee…

Mookie Betts, the Boston Red Sox outfielder and reigning American League most valuable player, will skip visiting the White House in May with his teammates. The decision comes just days after the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors skipped a White House visit for the second year in a row. The…

As expected, California Sen. Kamala Harris officially announced her 2020 White House bid on Martin Luther King Day morning. Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos set the stage, noting Harris first had been elected to the Senate in 2016 after 20 years as a prosecutor, including stints as San…

After two days of ducking direct answers to questions as to whether he had ever worked, wittingly or not, as an agent of Russia, President Trump walked out on the White House lawn Monday to finally insist he had not in a pop-up presser. “It's a lot of fake news,” Trump insisted. “That was a very good meeting, very…

Continuing the ongoing shakeups in the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said today that chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of the year. Kelly was long-rumored to be at-odds with the president, with some reports indicating the two were not even speaking. Trump made the reveal while…