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Jared Kushner
The revelation that Jared Kushner opened up the back channel that led to breakthrough communication between the US and North Korea underscores the highly unorthodox nature of Mr. Trump's White House, where family and personalized ties have shaped US foreign relations, The Financial Times reports.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and senior advisor Jared Kushner are supporting a move to pardon Michael Milken, Bloomberg News says.
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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is preparing to unleash an advertising campaign touting Trump's achievements in an effort to help the GOP hold onto Congress.
Billionaire financier Tom Barrack occupies a unique place in the Trump world, at once a fellow tycoon and a flattering courtier, a confidant and a power broker with Arab princes.
New financial disclosures show that Kushner's wealth and debt both appear to have gone up.
The purchase of three properties by President Trump's son-in-law triggered a series of unusual real estate deals and a windfall profit from transactions financed by a bank tied to the Trump family. USA Today reports.
Kim Kardashian West paid a visit to the White House to make a case to President Donald Trump on behalf of a woman serving a life sentence for drug offenses.
The senior White House advisor was interviewed for a second time by the special counsel last month.
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The special counsel's investigation into Russia's interference in America's 2016 presidential election has passed the one-year mark. President Trump insists that's enough.
The permanent clearance had been withheld from Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior White House advisor, for more than a year pending completion of a background check.
At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
Top White House officials, including Jared Kushner, have given Thiel the cold shoulder, sources tell CNBC.
The outspoken founding member of the legendary rock band wades into two hot-button political issues.
One year ago, Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to take over the Justice Department's investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
A source tells CNBC that Scaramucci met Goldstone a few times, and that the entertainment publicist who helped arrange the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians was "helpful" to the Trump campaign.
An email offering a meeting with Putin to then-candidate Donald Trump is contained in documents released by a Senate committee that questioned witnesses about a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman on Wednesday released thousands of pages of documents about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-level Trump campaign staff and Russians.
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner has been charged with drafting a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, but talk of peace is likely to become increasingly difficult following the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
"Despite all the chaos right now, we still may get a problem which is coming in seemingly from left field," says Michael Rubin.
Dozens of Palestinians are killed and hundreds wounded as they press attempts to cross into Israel from Gaza to protest the birth of the Jewish state 70 years earlier.
