Scott Horsley

In a press briefing, Sean Spicer answered a question about the gas attack in Syria by comparing Hitler, favorably, to the Syrian regime. His attempts to clarify the statement only made matters worse.

Before and after last week's chemical weapons attack, the Trump administration sent conflicting signals about foreign intervention, Russian cooperation and the fate of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In the middle of an international debate about Syria, Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer made an ill-conceived, ahistorical reference to Hitler. He later apologized.

The president delivered on a campaign promise with the swearing-in of conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. He thanked Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for making it possible.

President Trump's decision to launch a targeted missile strike against Syria overshadows his summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. NPR takes a look at what this means for Trump's foreign policy.

President Trump ordered a missile strike on a Syrian airfield where the U.S. says planes used in a chemical weapons attack originated. It's a change in policy after espousing nonintervention abroad.

President Trump welcomes President Xi Jinping of China to his home in Florida on Thursday. It will be Trump's first face-to-face meeting with the Chinese leader after campaigning for two years on the critique that China was ripping off the U.S.

Critics cried foul, including the head of the Sierra Club who called Trump's move a "publicity stunt."

Contentious issues on trade and North Korea are likely to dominate this coming week when President Trump has his first in-person meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

After last week's failed repeal of the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and Republicans in Congress turn their focus to regaining momentum in the days ahead. A look at what's on the agenda for Congress and the Trump administration.

President Trump is eager to put the health care debacle behind him and focus on tax reform, but the failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act could handicap that effort.

Republicans pulled their health care bill on Friday after failing to secure enough votes for it to pass in the House. In a statement, President Trump said he wanted to move onto tax reform.

House Republicans pulled their health care bill on Friday after failing to secure enough votes. House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke to reporters after the decision came to pull the bill.

The president's budget blueprint calls for a 10 percent increase in military spending, along with deep cuts in foreign aid and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts big changes in the individual insurance market if Republicans succeed in passing a bill to replace Obamacare.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released an analysis of the House GOP health care bill on Monday. Proponents of the bill downplayed the importance of what the CBO is likely to do.

President Trump is touting positive jobs numbers for his first full month as president. But those numbers are based on expectations of what Trump will do as president.

The Trump administration got some encouraging signals this week: An employment report shows solid job growth, while illegal border crossings fell sharply.

The GOP leadership's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would generally be better for younger, healthier and richer people.

A Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, currently being marked up in House committees, is the first step of GOP plans to overhaul the nation's health care system.