The first days inside Trump's White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot  —  President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build.  —  Trump turned on the television …

Trump Advancing Keystone, Dakota Oil Pipelines Today, Source Says  —  Pipelines are flashpoints among environmentalists, activists  —  Dakota Access was stalled by Obama administration in September  —  President Donald Trump intends to take action today to advance construction of the Keystone XL …

Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts  —  The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten …

Senate Democrats unveil a Trump-size infrastructure plan  —  A group of senior Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their own $1 trillion plan to revamp the nation's airports, bridges, roads and seaports, urging President Trump to back their proposal, which they say would create 15 million jobs over 10 years.

Conservative Colorado judge emerges as a top contender to fill Scalia's Supreme Court seat  —  Neil Gorsuch, 49, was among 21 potential high court candidates circulated by Trump's team during the campaign (Lauren Victoria Burke / For the Denver Post)  —  Judge Neil M. Gorsuch …

Special Observances: National Day of Patriotic Devotion (Proc.  9570)  —  An unpublished Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/24/2017  —  This document is unpublished.  It is scheduled to be published on 01/24/2017.  —  Once it is published it will be available on this page in an official form.

Trump Is Said to Keep James Comey as F.B.I. Director  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, told his top agents from around the country that he had been asked by President Trump to stay on the job running the federal government's top law enforcement agency, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump 101: What he reads and watches  —  President Trump spends substantial time and energy ridiculing the media.  He spends even more time consuming —and obsessing about — it.  —  Print copies of three newspapers.  When Billy Bush was on, “Access Hollywood” every night.

Trump's flurry of day one policies had some surprising omissions  —  Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail about what he'd do on day one of his presidency.  Now day one is over — and after the first full weekday of the Trump administration, what Trump hasn't done is just as notable as what he has.

Is Our Democrats Learning?  —  With the exception of Kirsten Gillibrand, evidently not.  She is the only senator to vote against all three of Trump's cabinet appointments.  Yesterday, 15 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Mike Pompeo, a noted pro-torture Islamphobe.  This is pathetic.  Why?

DNC Chair Candidates Bash White People in Racially-Charged Forum  —  ‘My job is to shut other white people down’  —  Candidates aspiring to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee met Monday night to discuss what went wrong in 2016 and how to get the party back on track.

Breitbart national security editor and Fox News contributor expected to join Trump White House  —  Sebastian Gorka, the Breitbart national security editor and a Fox News contributor, is expected to join President Donald Trump's White House, a source familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027  —  If current laws remained generally unchanged, deficits would follow an upward trajectory over the next decade, driving up federal debt.  CBO projects moderate economic growth during that period.  —  View by Chapter

Sales of ‘1984’ surge after Conway talks ‘alternative facts’  —  George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984” is surging in popularity in the days since President Trump's inauguration.  —  The iconic book, published nearly 70 years ago, is the sixth best-selling book on Amazon as of Tuesday morning.

The U.K.'s Threat To Weaponize Tax Is No Bluff  —  Bloomberg View: The U.K.'s Threat to Weaponize Tax Is No Bluff, by Mark Gilbert:  —  The U.K. government is threatening to give its post-Brexit economy a shot in the arm by reducing corporate taxes to become a sort of “Singapore-on-Thames …

Health Secretary Nominee Tom Price Proposed Bill Benefiting His Puerto Rico Investments  —  Three months after investing in four companies with manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump's pick for Health and Human Services secretary introduced legislation that would directly benefit those companies.