Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians.

NBC News will cut ties with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel, hired last week as an on-air political contributor.

The president’s national security spokesman John Kirby is getting an expanded role at the White House.

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has 2-book deal with Scribner, starting with a book reflecting on her years in government.

Donald Trump's legal problems may be a headache for the former president, but they are proving a boon to MSNBC.

Two cable news personalities with little in common — Mark Levin and Jen Psaki — both learned on Thursday that they will be getting increased screen time on their respective networks.

Since starting at MSNBC last September, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki hasn't been hard to find on the air.

MSNBC says former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will debut a Sunday political show on the network next month.

COVID-19 symptoms left President Joe Biden with a deep, raspy voice and persistent cough as he met Friday via videoconference with his top economic team, but he tried to strike a reassuring tone, declaring, “I feel much better than I sound.”.

In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on the frequency of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 testing regimen.

Not even the White House is immune from the economic trend that's been called the "great resignation” as employers struggle to fill vacancies and workers jump to new jobs at record rates.

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network’s cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding star power to the West Wing’s foreign policy communications team.

President Joe Biden's new spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, says she hopes kids will “dream big and dream bigger” because she's now the White House press secretary.

Karine Jean-Pierre is crediting “barrier-breaking people” who came before her for making it possible for a Black, gay, immigrant woman like herself to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American government.

The nationwide shortage of baby formula is quickly becoming the GOP's latest election-year attack on President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden is reaffirming his administration’s support for Jordan’s long-running role as the custodian of Muslim holy sites at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

President Joe Biden says he’s nominating one of his top national security aides to serve as his ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

President Joe Biden is stepping up his administration’s response to a nationwide baby formula shortage that has forced frenzied parents into online groups to swap and sell to each other to keep their babies fed.

President Joe Biden has appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he leads the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America.

Jen Psaki is leaving as White House press secretary on Friday after having answered reporters’ questions nearly every weekday of the almost 500 days that President Joe Biden has been in office.

President Joe Biden is vowing to help American farmers try to ease a global spike in food prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Washington is seeking to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is under pressure to preserve access to abortion, but he has few good options to do it.

The Biden administration sought Friday to downplay the role of American intelligence in the high-profile sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, distancing itself from any direct role in one of the greatest embarrassments for Russia since it attacked Ukraine.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met Thursday with union organizers at the White House as the administration looks to boost unionization campaigns.

President Joe Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board remains shrouded in secrecy a week after the Biden administration’s announcement of the new effort was met with widespread criticism.

President Joe Biden has met with the parents of American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria 10 years ago.

President Joe Biden has saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale, traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.

President Joe Biden needs to make a decision about cancelling student debt.

President Joe Biden took the White House press corps' annual gala as an opportunity to make light of the criticism he has faced in his 15 months in office.

Relatives say a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, in the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden will travel next month to South Korea and Japan to consult with allies on growing threats from China and North Korea.

President Joe Biden has signaled he might forgive some student loan debt and further extend the federal moratorium on repayments.

After two years at the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, the U.S. could soon have to begin taking a number.

President Joe Biden has an election year message for frustrated voters: At least he’s trying.

President Joe Biden plans to mark Earth Day in Seattle on Friday, but he's struggled to make progress on a sweeping environmental agenda.

President Joe Biden is set to announce plans to send additional military aid to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invasion.

President Joe Biden’s administration has been working for months to prepare people to rethink their personal risk calculations as the nation gets used to the idea of living with an endemic COVID-19.

The White House says President Joe Biden will host leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian nations in Washington next month for a summit.

President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic agenda is on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominate the headlines.

There’s no such thing as a purely personal opinion from the Oval Office on major matters of policy.

CBS' hiring of former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney and MSNBC's discussions about bringing on White House press secretary Jen Psaki after she's left the Biden administration have troubled some journalists at the networks.

President Joe Biden has journeyed to corn-rich Iowa to announce he's suspending federal rules that restrict ethanol in gasoline, aiming to strike at least a small blow against surging inflation.

President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are set to speak virtually on Monday.

President Joe Biden has asked India’s Narendra Modi not to accelerate the buying of Russian oil as the U.S. and other nations try to cut off Moscow’s energy income following the invasion of Ukraine.

Dozens of protesters have gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Chile’s capital of Santiago to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

The Biden administration has newly targeted Vladimir Putin’s adult daughters in the sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate.

The United States has announced new sanctions targeting Russia in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine.

The U.S. and its European allies will impose stiff new sanctions Wednesday, including a ban on new investments in Russia, in retaliation for Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine, according to the White House.

In the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama surprised then-Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and moved his No. 2 to tears by evoking the poetry of W.

Former President Barack Obama has returned to the White House — for a few hours, to celebrate the 12th anniversary of his signature health care law.

GOP Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire said Donald Trump is “crazy” and joked that if the former Republican president was admitted to a mental hospital, he’s not getting out.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki isn't confirming reports that she'll soon take a TV job at MSNBC.

CIA Director William Burns has tested positive for COVID-19.

President Joe Biden says he's not yet convinced that Russia’s announcement that it will scale back military operations near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv will lead to a fundamental shift in the war.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre says she has tested positive for COVID-19 after having returned from Europe with President Joe Biden.

As Russia escalates its war in Ukraine and stories of civilian casualties and destruction in cities reach the United States, support has risen for a major American role.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she has tested positive again for COVID-19 and will not accompany President Joe Biden to Europe for urgent meetings on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Senior administration officials say Congress should provide the $22.5 billion President Joe Biden wants for continuing the battle against COVID-19 without cutting other programs to pay for it.

The head of the United Nations says countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change.

Ahead of his foreign trip, President Joe Biden is discussing the war with European leaders.

President Joe Biden will thank Poland’s president for the country’s efforts to shelter Ukrainian refugees as part of his trip this week to Europe as Russian forces bear down in a nearly-month old invasion.

India is buying discounted Russian oil, allowing it to increase its energy supplies while Russia looks to cut deals to boost its beleaguered economy.

President Joe Biden’s move last week to ban oil from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was met with calls to boost U.S. production to help bring down soaring gasoline prices.

Face to face by video, President Joe Biden has laid out to China's Xi Jinping the consequences China would face if it provides military or economic assistance for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

President Joe Biden will speak Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ongoing economic competition between the two countries and Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Joe Biden set out to be the U.S. president who finally completed the “Asia pivot,” Washington lingo for a long-sought adjustment of U.S. foreign policy to better reflect China's rise.

President Joe Biden has flatly called Russia’s Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine, where hospitals and maternity wards have been bombed.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.S. Congress — the next stop as the actor-turned-wartime leader uses the Western world’s great legislative bodies as a global stage to help his country.

The White House says second gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19.

Sarah Bloom Raskin has withdrawn her nomination to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors after a key Democrat joined with all Senate Republicans to oppose her confirmation.

President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday.

Gas prices have slightly dipped in the past couple of days.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s demands are becoming “more realistic.”.

A U.S. official says Russia has asked China for military equipment to use in its invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of foreign brands have suspended operations in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began.

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Florida is even higher.

The United States has accused Russia of using a U.N. Security Council meeting for “spreading disinformation” as part of a potential false-flag operation by Moscow for the use of chemical or biological agents in Ukraine.

It's been one year since President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce Friday that the U.S., along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, will move to revoke “most favored nation” trade status for Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Satellite photos appear to show that a massive Russian convoy that had been mired outside the Ukrainian capital for days has split up.

Pressure is building on the Biden administration to begin unwinding sanctions on Venezuela after President Nicolas Maduro freed two American prisoners and promised to resume negotiations with opponents.

The Biden administration is warning that Russia might seek to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as the White House rejected Russian claims of illegal chemical weapons development in the country it has invaded.

Russian airstrikes have hit three hospitals in Ukraine, including two west of the capital and a maternity hospital in Mariupol, where 17 people were wounded.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Warsaw to thank Poland for taking in Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion is taking an unexpected turn.

With Russia intensifying its war on Ukraine, killing civilians and triggering a mass refugee crisis, President Joe Biden announced a U.S. ban on imported Russian oil.

Gas prices are skyrocketing.

President Joe Biden says U.S. veterans are the “backbone, the spine, the sinew” of the nation, as he pushes for better help for members of the military who face health problems after exposure to burn pits and other hazards.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 1.5 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries.

The White House is warning that the U.S. will soon start running out of money to bolster COVID-19 testing supplies and to guarantee that uninsured Americans keep getting free treatment for the virus _ unless Congress swiftly approves more funding.

The White House is warning that the U.S. will soon start running out of money to bolster COVID-19 testing supplies and to guarantee that uninsured Americans keep getting free treatment for the virus _ unless Congress swiftly approves more funding.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing pushback from the White House and all corners of Washington after calling for the assassination of President Vladimir Putin by the Russian people.

Some Democratic and Republican lawmakers say the United States is delaying providing some intelligence to Ukraine in its fight against Russia as the U.S. also seeks to limit any direct confrontation with Moscow.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she supports banning Russian oil imports to the U.S. Amid the escalating war in Ukraine, Pelosi she's “all for” blocking Russian oil.

Europe is scrambling to reduce its natural gas dependence on Russia, and it won't be easy.

President Joe Biden knows better than anyone the unexpected turns a Supreme Court nomination can take after it lands on Capitol Hill.