Peter Baker is the Chief White House correspondent for the "New York Times" and a Political Analyst for MSNBC. He has covered the last five presidents at The Times since 2008, and prior to that at the ...

Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security ...

Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation Thursday to fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies, potentially bringing ...

Trump ends a Cabinet meeting without comments from Kristi Noem as she faces scrutiny over Minnesota deaths.

President Donald Trump gathered his Cabinet for a video broadcasted meeting. Since returning to office, the president has ...

I recently received an invitation to join the state GOP. I laughed at the ridiculousness of the ask, until I realized how sad ...

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Just after midnight on January 3rd, as American commandos surged into Caracas to seize President Nicolás Maduro, large sections of the city went dark. Blackouts are common in Venezuela, but the blasts ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who just keeps racking up job titles, could have another one soon, President Trump hinted. The commander-in-chief mused that Rubio, who once held four big ...

As a child, Marco Rubio sat at his grandfather’s feet cigar-smoke curling on the front porch as stories spilled out — tales of Cuban heroes like José Martí and the guerilla soldiers who fought Spanish ...

"What are you saying here, Marco?" the president asked the bashful secretary of state after reading his letter in front of reporters SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty President Donald Trump read aloud a ...