(WASHINGTON) -- In a remarkable development Tuesday, first lady Melania Trump made a public call for the president's deputy national security adviser, Mira Ricardel, to be fired.

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump is huddling with his lawyers this week to craft responses to list of written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller, sources close to the president told ABC News on Tuesday.

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump is considering yet another shakeup of his administration, preparing to remove Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and looking at possible replacements for Chief of Staff John Kelly, including Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of S…

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump placed full blame for his canceled visit to a World War I cemetery in France over the weekend on the Secret Service, claiming that he suggested driving after it was deemed unsafe to take the presidential chopper during rainy weather but that the Secret …

(WASHINGTON) -- CNN and its chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta filed suit Tuesday against President Donald Trump, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, the president's chief of staff John Kelly and the U.S. Secret Service, among others, over the suspension of Acosta's WHite Hous…

(NEW YORK) -- Former first lady Michelle Obama said her two daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, are “thriving” post-White House and said she will always love a trio of former first children for helping her daughters.

(CHICAGO) -- Former first lady Michelle Obama, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts, said the results of the midterm elections were inspiring and addressed whether Hillary Clinton should run for office again.

(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has some advice for the more than 100 women elected to join Congress after this historic midterm election cycle.

(WASHINGTON) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Martha McSally has conceded the Arizona race to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.

(WASHINGTON) -- The House and Senate return to Washington Tuesday for the first time since well before Election Day.

(WASHINGTON) -- The former Infowars Washington bureau chief, who recently testified before a federal grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, tells ABC News that after two months of closed-door talks with investiga…

(ATLANTA) -- Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate in Georgia's still-uncalled governor's race, is hoping a count of all provisional ballots can help her close the gap with Republican Brian Kemp and force a runoff.

(WASHINGTON) -- Less than a week into Mississippi's Senate special election election runoff, GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is facing criticism from her African-American opponent and from civil rights groups over a comment she made about "a public hanging" in the days leading into Election Day.

(WASHINGTON) -- Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney and close associate, arrived in Washington, D.C., Monday morning, accompanied by one of his own criminal defense lawyers.

(WASHINGTON) -- Democrat Richard Ojeda may have lost his bid for Congress in West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District but the man who's been called "JFK with tattoos and a bench press" announced he still has plans to run -- for president.

(WASHINGTON) -- Just after returning from his trip to Europe, President Donald Trump on Monday morning turned back to the increasingly bitter battle over recounts in the Senate and governor's races in Florida, calling them "massively infected" and making claims of fraud without providing any…

(NEW YORK) -- Michelle Obama, the former first lady, sat down recently for a much-anticipated, exclusive interview with Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts that ran the gamut from her new memoir, "Becoming," to life before, during and after the family's time in the White House.

(WASHINGTON) -- The House Oversight Committee plans to investigate Donald Trump's involvement in hush payments made to women during the 2016 presidential campaign, a senior Democratic aide on the committee told ABC News. When the Democrats take control of the House in January and gain subpoe…

(PARIS) -- The fallout from President Donald Trump's decision to skip a ceremony honoring fallen American World War I soldiers in France on Saturday because of the rain grew amid the images of other world leaders defying inclement weather to memorialize the sacrifices of military heroes as p…

(WASHINGTON) -- A top White House adviser to President Donald Trump declared that Florida Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and governorship “have won,” even as the margins between them and their Democratic counterparts were small enough to trigger a mandatory recount under Florida law.

(WASHINGTON) -- The fallout from President Donald Trump's decision to skip a ceremony honoring fallen American World War I soldiers in France on Saturday because of the rain grew amid the images of other world leaders defying inclement weather to memorialize the sacrifices of military heroes…

(WASHINGTON) -- The incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said that if the Trump administration restricts special counsel Robert Mueller or refuses to release a final report from the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election, then the committee could wield its…

(WASHINGTON) -- The incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said that if the Trump administration restricts special counsel Robert Mueller or refuses to release a final report from the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election, then the committee could wield its…

(NEW YORK) -- Two incoming Democratic congressional committee chairs say they plan on investigating President Trump, but that there will be limits on how they use the power of their newfound majority.

(PARIS) -- President Trump and first lady Melania Trump joined a host of world leaders at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday to mark the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I.

(CHICAGO) -- Michelle Obama shared with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts some key advice she'd give her pre-White House self, if she had the chance, as the two sat down to discuss her memoir, "Becoming."

(NEW YORK) --  Florida has headed to a recount yet again — this time, in three statewide races.

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(WASHINTON) -- Despite regaining control of the House with the help of a crop of candidates who campaigned on calls for a new generation of leadership, Democrats are positioned to once again elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker and tap her longtime deputies to lead the caucus when the new Congress …

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump on Friday mocked "Mr. Kellyanne Conway," George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and his concerns that Matthew Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general is unconstitutional.

(WASHINGTON) --  In her own voice and in her own words, Michelle Obama reads from her memoir, "Becoming," detailing just why she will never forgive President Donald Trump for his birther claims about her husband.

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to mend fences Saturday just hours after Trump fired off an angry tweet toward his host upon arriving in Paris over recent comments Macron made about propping up a "European Army" to counter international threats.

(WASHINGTON) -- Ongoing protests in Broward County and Florida's pending recount battle highlight twists and turns seen across the country in outstanding midterm races.

(NEW YORK) -- Broward County election officials will have to disclose how many ballots are outstanding and yet to be counted, a federal judge ruled in Florida.

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation Friday aimed at denying asylum to migrants who cross illegally cross the border – a move that comes as a caravan of Central Americans wends its way northward toward the United States.

(NEW YORK) -- George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co-wrote an op-ed in the New York Times published Thursday arguing that President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general is unconstitutional because he wasn't confirmed by t…

(WASHINGTON) -- A panel of federal judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on Thursday in a constitutional challenge to special counsel Robert Mueller’s authority to preside over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The appeal was launched on …

(PHOENIX) -- Arizonans are still waiting to hear who their next senator is, but for tens of thousands of voters, they know that the person they voted for didn't win.

(WASHINGTON) -- Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ dismissal, the race to fill his post atop the Justice Department is heating up.

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- No state can deliver post-election day drama quite like Florida as both the statewide Senate and gubernatorial Democratic candidates push for a recount decision as early as Saturday.

(WASHINGTON) -- Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors are in the process of writing a final report on the nearly 18-month long investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election, sources tell ABC News.

(ATLANTA) -- Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has declared victory in the gubernatorial race and says he is stepping down as the state’s top election official Thursday to begin his transition to governor.

(WASHINGTON) -- While President Donald Trump said he "stopped the blue wave" by Democrats as a result of his campaigning for Republican candidates, there were significant wins in historically-red strongholds across the country.

(WASHINGTON) -- If there’s any doubt that Democratic control of the House could complicate matters for President Donald Trump, just ask Bill Clinton. In 1997, House Republicans under Newt Gingrich spent some $7 million on a campaign finance investigation involving the Democratic president th…

(NEW YORK) -- CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s exchange with President Donald Trump wasn’t the only fiery flare-up between the president and the press at Wednesday’s press conference.

(NEW YORK) -- New York’s former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will not face criminal charges following allegations from four women that he assaulted them – a string of accusations that led to his abrupt resignation in May, the prosecutor charged with investigating the incidents announce…

(WASHINGTON) -- On the heels of the second high-profile mass shooting in two weeks, this one at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, that killed 12, Democrats in Congress took to social media Thursday to urge -- and plead -- for legislative action.

(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered three fractured ribs Wednesday evening after falling in her office at the court.