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Written by President Donald Trump’s niece, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” levels new allegations against the president.

Some White House officials are privately expressing frustration over President Trump’s recent embrace of a message stoking racial and cultural divisions. The Trump allies are telling him that he has a better argument to make and to focus on his accomplishments in office and offer sharp criticism of his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, said two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity...

House Democrats said they still have unanswered questions after a briefing from White House officials on the report that Russia was placing bounties on US troops in Afghanistan.

Federal authorities have charged four men in connection with a failed effort last week to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House.

President Donald Trump has preached unity to West Point graduates as the nation struggles to confront its complicated racial legacy. In Saturday’s commencement speech, he told the newly commissioned officers never to forget the legacy of soldiers from generations ago who fought “a bloody war to extinguish the evil of slavery.’’

With less than five months before voters head to the polls, President Donald Trump finds himself in an uncertain position: caught between advisers urging him to calm a country in the grips of a pandemic, economic uncertainty and civil unrest and those who want him to lean into aggressive tactics that almost certainly would further inflame a nation on edge, NBC News...

Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators protesting years of black deaths at the hands of police officers. Now, with expectations that the fence in front of the White House might be coming down, there’s an effort...

NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shows us how activists are reclaiming the new protective fence around the White House with powerful messages against police brutality.

An AP analysis finds that tensions between the White House and Pentagon over President Donald Trump’s response to protests triggered by George Floyd’s death have stretched to near a breaking point

For a fifth night, scores of people took to the streets of D.C. to call for change. Peaceful protests continued well past the curfew that went into effect at 7 p.m. The crowd started thinning out after 8 p.m., although a core group of several hundred remained at the fence at Lafayette Square for hours, chanting at the line...

A fourth night of demonstrations continued and protesters were arrested after Washington, D.C.’s curfew went into effect at 7 p.m. Monday. The new curfew started as protesters continued expressing outrage across the city over the death of George Floyd across. Protesters reported tear gas or pepper spray being thrown into crowds. As the curfew began, Metropolitan Police Department officers...

Angry protesters took over the streets of downtown D.C., again Sunday night, with some setting fires, looting, and vandalizing buildings and cars as unrest cropped up elsewhere in Northwest D.C. Sixty-one U.S. Park Police officers and seven D.C. police officers were hurt in the clashes, officials said in updates Monday.  Three Park Police officers were hospitalized, a representative said....

Protesters gathered outside of the White House on Friday evening to protest the death of George Floyd, causing the Secret Service to issue lockdown orders for the grounds.

Protesters filled downtown D.C. for a third night on Sunday. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports as a citywide curfew begins.

President Donald Trump spent time in a White House bunker during Friday night’s protests outside the executive mansion

Seventeen people were arrested and 11 D.C. police officers were hurt as a second night of protests over the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd brought tear gas, small fires and the National Guard to downtown D.C. Saturday night.  Demonstrations outside the White House were peaceful for hours Saturday afternoon. Then a “small number of people” grew violent, Chief of...

President Donald Trump warned that protesters outside the White House Friday night could have been “greeted” with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” if they had breached the fence, and praised the Secret Service for their response to the demonstrations.

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman was one of the White House’s longest serving employees, beginning as a cleaner in 1957 under the Eisenhower administration and then promoted during the Kennedy presidency, according to Jamila Garrett, who said her grandfather fostered relationships at the White House that helped him advance his position.

Guidance on reopening houses of worship has been put on hold after a disagreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the White House, a senior administration official confirmed.