Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. No reason was given for the departure of Driscoll,

Dan Driscoll is the latest senior military figure to quit, leaving a vacuum at the top of the American military

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump amid growing tension between him and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The decision hands President Donald Trump a major political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.

Acting on an emergency appeal, a divided court said a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal from Trump and his lawyers on Monday, setting aside a judge’s order that would stop the construction. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented,

The Supreme Court issued an order this afternoon allowing President Trump to move ahead with construction of his 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom. In a 5-4 vote, the court said that the preservationists who sued to block the president’s plans did not have legal grounds to do so because they were not directly harmed by the project.

The president's latest in a string of threats against broadcasters followed a comment by Kristen Welker about "some mixed results" from his midterm endorsements.

The president took issue with Welker’s description of the “mixed results” of candidates who have received his endorsement this election cycle.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in ⁠a ⁠Truth Social post on Sunday that NBC's ⁠Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission for "rebuke or punishment," after she ​noted that the Republican president's success in endorsing political candidates has been mixed.

Peter Alexander reacts to President Trump’s call for the FCC to punish or rebuke his former NBC News colleague Kristen Welker for comments she made about Trump’s midterm endorsements. She said his primary picks have seen “mixed results”,

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. John James, Republican of Michigan, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Aug. 30, 2026. The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen.

Trump has pledged to campaign for Ken Paxton and spend significant time in Texas, but the White House has not put a dollar figure on his planned support

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state's GOP nominee for Senate, addressed his tight race with state Rep. James Talarico on Fox News.

Democrat James Talarico has dominated the airwaves in the race with Ken Paxton for the open Senate seat that could decide which party controls that chamber.

The prediction market Kalshi on Monday fined the Republican nominee in a competitive House race and imposed its first-ever lifetime ban, against former Rep. George Santos, after insider trading investigations.

Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former Republican congressman George Santos from its platform on Monday over alleged illegal trades.

Other political candidates also received shorter bans, including a Republican looking to flip a House seat in North Carolina.

Santos received the prediction market platform’s first-ever lifetime ban for failing to comply with its investigation, the company said.

President Donald Trump on Monday again championed the spread of data centers despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the midterms in November. In a post to Truth Social, the president insisted data centers will lead to richer,

The president has backed the construction of data centers, but most Americans oppose building them near where they live.

Trump says communities that oppose data centers risk losing jobs, tax revenue and a competitive edge to China.

Trump says communities that reject data centers risk becoming “backwards and poor,” as opponents raise concerns over power, water and AI’s impact. (AP Photo)