Tamara Keith

President Trump is back in the U.S. after a brief trip to Iraq to visit U.S. troops. The stop comes as Trump faces intense scrutiny for his decision to pull back on troop deployments elsewhere.

The president visited U.S. forces who are part of the fight against ISIS, amid criticism of a sudden decision to pull troops from Syria. It's his first such trip since taking office.

Only a handful of aides who started in the very early days of the Trump administration have made it through the first two years. What do they share? Endurance and a tolerance for conflict.

Monday's short trading session drove stocks into a deeper dive as the stock market heads toward its worst December since the Great Depression. Some say Trump's outbursts aren't helping the market.

President Trump remains at the White House over the holidays amid a partial government shutdown and concern across Washington over foreign policy changes.

We get the latest on the government shutdown and Secretary Mattis' early departure from the administration.

A partial government shutdown took place days before Christmas. President Trump wants funding for a border wall, a demand that Democrats so far have rejected.

The partial government shutdown won't end before Dec. 27. Negotiations continue, but President Trump maintains that any bill has to include money for his wall, a demand Democrats still reject.

Senate Republicans and President Trump met Friday to discuss a spending plan. Congress has to come up with a budget deal Friday that the president is willing to sign to avert a shutdown.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis braved policy differences and style differences with President Trump. What does his departure mean for the White House and what does it say about Trump's Cabinet?

With a proposed government funding bill not putting money into President Trump's border wall, he's now talking about different ways to complete his long-promised project.

There are more changes in President Trump's cabinet with the announcement that Mick Mulvaney will take over as acting chief of staff for John Kelly and Ryan Zinke's resignation as interior secretary.

President Trump has tweeted that the interior secretary is stepping down at the end of the year. NPR's Scott Simon and Tamara Keith discuss the issue.

President Trump's comments on payments made to women accusing him of affairs have evolved. His former lawyer was sentenced to prison in part over campaign finance violations related to those payments.

President Trump meets with congressional Democrats to discuss his request for $5 billion to fund a border wall. Democratic leaders have suggested offering $1.3 billion for border security.

With a partial government shutdown on the horizon, President Trump and Democratic leaders had a heated exchange over border security and wall funding in front of reporters.

Persistent rumors of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's departure are finally true, just 16 months after he started on the job.

The White House is arguing that the Special Counsel cases involving Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort have nothing to do with President Trump. Cohen and Manafort are both former Trump associates.

In the latest update from the special counsel's investigation, documents in the case of President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen were filed in a New York federal court on Friday.

President Trump lashed out on Twitter against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ahead of expected court filings in that probe. He also announced his pick for a new attorney general.