From demolishing the East Wing to build a ballroom to paving the Rose Garden, the changes reflect Trump’s second-term quest for dominance and revenge.

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday praised economic adviser Kevin Hassett at ​a White House event and said he may want to keep him ‌in his current role, as the president considers his nominee for the next Federal Reserve chair.

Get live updates and the latest news as Donald Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and the Senate blocks a Venezuela war powers resolution.

James McCrery​, once President Trump's handpicked architect for the White House ballroom, has been appointed to serve on a commission that will review the project he once led.

Trump’s initial reference to canceling the elections came during his Jan. 6 address to House Republicans as they gathered at the Kennedy Center to discuss their agenda for the year ahead. Criticizing Democrats, Trump said “they have the worst policy” and questioned “how we have to even run against these people.”

President Trump welcomed the Florida Panthers to the White House, praising the team’s performance and celebrating its back-to-back Stanley Cup titles.

Leavitt accused a reporter of being a "leftwing hack" after being asked about the administration's defense of immigration agents.

White House adviser Kevin Hassett played down the federal criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday, saying he expected there would be "nothing to see here".

White House officials are heaping blame on DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro over her office’s criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell, faulting her for blindsiding them with an inquiry that has forced the administration into a dayslong damage control campaign,

The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.

Consumer advocates say ratepayers in the grid are paying billions of dollars in higher bills to underwrite the cost to supply power to AI data centers.