First lady Melania Trump will join President Donald Trump at his Erie, Pennsylvania, rally on Tuesday evening, according to a White House official. It will be the first lady’s first in-person appearance at a campaign event, outside of August’s Republican National Convention speech at the White House, in more than a year, when she joined the President last June at the official reelection kick-off rally in Florida.
Melania Trump renews focus on ex-friend with essay railing against ‘pettiness’
First lady Melania Trump penned an essay on the White House website on Friday that railed against what she described as the “pettiness” of the media and ex-friend and former adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
Biden crosses 270 threshold in CNN’s Electoral College outlook for first time
Joe Biden is surging in the battle for the White House with less than four weeks to go until Election Day.
Local officials say nine Pennsylvania ballots were discarded due to an error, undercutting Trump claims of intentional fraud
Local officials in Pennsylvania on Friday provided more information about nine potentially mishandled ballots in Luzerne County, which the White House repeatedly cited to attack mail-in voting and question the integrity of November’s election.
Why Florida is a battleground state like no other
Battleground states are critical to winning the White House and Florida is a battleground state like no other. CNN’s Harry Enten explains what makes the Sunshine State so unique and what that means for the 2020 election.
Esper and Milley appear to adopt different strategies to deal with Trump as election approaches
The Pentagon’s two most senior figures were so angry about President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on senior military leadership earlier this month that they got on the phone with the White House chief of staff to express their dismay, according to several defense officials.
East Wing grapples with a familiar West Wing problem: the tell-all book
On Thursday afternoon, Melania Trump entered the East Room of the White House for a roundtable discussion about drug addiction recovery. Dressed in a prim polka-dot dress, she made opening remarks and then listened as former addicts told personal stories. She was as she often is in public, calm, and for the most part expressionless.
Trump to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday
President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement and to survey some of the damage from the recent protests, the White House announced Saturday evening.
Kushner heads to Middle East looking to deliver peace deal ahead of election
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is traveling to the Middle East this weekend to try to convince multiple Arab leaders to attend a splashy signing ceremony at the White House for the recent normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
Hits and misses from Night 1 of the RNC
The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday night, with most of the action coming from an auditorium near the White House.
Here’s why Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his VP
Joe Biden thinks he is going to win the White House in 84 days’ time.
Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut blast cause
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is downplaying any differences he had with the White House’s assessment as to what caused the deadly explosion in Beirut after his speculation that the blast was likely the result of an accident drew push back from the White House.
White House portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to rarely used room
The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer of the White House within the last week, aides told CNN, and replaced by those of two Republican presidents who served more than a century ago.
Elizabeth Warren as Treasury secretary would be a ‘mistake,’ Barney Frank says
Joe Biden should not pick Elizabeth Warren to be his Treasury secretary if he wins the White House, former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank told CNN Business.
How Dr. Deborah Birx’s political skills made her the most powerful person on the coronavirus task force
As the relationship between Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Donald Trump publicly disintegrated over the past few months, Dr. Deborah Birx, Fauci’s former mentee, solidified her standing inside the White House, to the point that sources familiar with the situation say she has essentially taken charge of running the task force day to day.
White House hosts a party in the midst of a pandemic
The White House was always one of the busiest social hubs in Washington, accustomed to hosting at least three to five events per day, ranging from meetings with dignitaries and VIPs to smaller luncheons or private dinners. That is, until Covid-19.
White House virus test has questionable accuracy
President Donald Trump said part of the reason he doesn’t regularly wear a mask is “everyone’s tested” before they see him. But multiple studies have raised questions about the accuracy of a coronavirus test the White House has used, and the Food and Drug Administration has received dozens of reports of potential problems with that test.
Wall Street’s nightmare: Elizabeth Warren as Treasury Secretary
Wall Street dodged a bullet when Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for the White House fizzled out. But Warren, a fierce critic of big banks, could still play a forceful role in shaping policy in a potential Biden administration.
‘I want to see myself:’ Black women mount public and private campaign for Biden to pick a Black woman running mate
Influential Black women are mounting a robust effort to persuade presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that selecting a black woman as his running would give him the best advantage to win the White House in November.
Military spouses across the US organize and march in support of Black Lives Matter
“I was screaming at the television,” an African American Navy spouse told CNN, as she watched peaceful protesters running from military police and law enforcement officers who were advancing on them near the White House. Protestors were covering their ears with their hands and gripping their mouths as they tried to escape the acrid clouds of smoke and wafting pepper spray.
The top 10 women Biden might pick as vice president
Ambitious politicians spend years seeking to shape a career that allows them to wind up in the White House or on a major party’s national ticket. But as the last week has reminded us, unforeseen events always seem to intervene — and have the potential to fundamentally alter even the best laid plans.
READ: Lawsuit over use of force against White House protesters
Several protesters and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the federal use of force to disperse a peaceful protest in Washington, DC, ahead of President Donald Trump’s photo-op at a local church.
‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’: Street near White House gets new name, sign
Diplomats fear blow to US moral authority
Less than 24 hours after law enforcement officials violently dispersed peaceful protesters outside the White House with pepper balls and rubber bullets, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with survivors of China’s brutal 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
White House ramps up PR campaign to improve Trump’s image
The aggressive new White House campaign to improve America’s perceptions of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was in full swing Friday — from the President’s sunny predictions in the Rose Garden about developing a vaccine to the press secretary’s attempted takedown of the Obama administration’s pandemic playbook in the White House briefing room.
Birx: Michigan protests were ‘devastatingly worrisome’
Dr. Deborah Birx, a White House coronavirus task force official, said that the protests last week in the Michigan state legislature were “devastatingly worrisome to me personally.”
Fauci stresses need for ‘productive partnership’ between states and federal government
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said the federal government is still trying to connect the dots with states on testing and that “we need to have a productive partnership” as the US grapples with the novel coronavirus.
White House economist: Unemployment could hit 20% by June
The White House is telling Americans to brace for a period of Great Depression-level unemployment this summer.
Analysis: The medical experts stay with Trump, but for how long?
Does President Donald Trump not know that people will believe him when he speaks from the White House podium? Does he not care?
Health groups urge Trump to reverse World Health Organization funding decision
More than 1,000 organizations and individuals including charities, medical experts and healthcare companies from around the world have written to the White House arguing the Trump administration should reverse course and keep funding the World Health Organization (WHO).