President Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom is beginning to take shape. CBS News exclusively obtained updated architectural drawings on Thursday — which appear to show that the president’s project will outsize the White House once it is completed.

The Turkish president is in Washington and seeking deals on defence and energy worth tens of billions of US dollars.

Federal agencies should implement mass layoffs of their workforces if the government shuts down next week, the White House told agencies on Wednesday, dramatically escalating the stakes of a potential funding lapse.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday sent the White House the details of a drug pricing pilot for official review, according to a government website.

Taylor Budowich, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff overseeing communications, will leave the administration later this month for a new job, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.

Trump views the Turkish president as an ally who might serve as a valuable go-between in resolving the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

“This may be the worst managed PR event in history,” Ty Cobb, who led the Trump White House’s response to a special counsel probe into Russia in 2017, said. “You’ve got multiple mouthpieces, and they’re all covering their own a-- now.”

A memo from the White House budget office telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings should the government shut down signaled a dramatic escalation in a funding staredown with fewer potential off-ramps as next week’s deadline nears.

Trump's former relationship with Epstein remains a point of contention, particularly among protesters across the world.

Donald Trump implied the United Nations was falling apart after his General Assembly address Tuesday kicked off with a set of technical challenges. But the reasons for the embarrassing hitches were closer to home. First, the escalator stopped immediately after Trump and his wife, Melania, stepped onto it ahead of his major speech.

President Donald Trump has introduced a “Presidential Walk of Fame” along a noticeable walkway outside the West Wing of the White House.