President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders focused on the military, including one that directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.

Democrats say they will lay out the 2024 election as “a choice between two very different visions of America” on the Democratic National Convention’s second night.

As former President Donald Trump has waded into contested primaries across the country, trying to exact revenge and remake the Republican Party in his image, he has endorsed a series of candidates facing serious allegations, especially concerning their treatment of women.

A former Trump aide and congressional candidate in Ohio has filed a defamation lawsuit over allegations of physical abuse that his former girlfriend and White House colleague is leveling while promoting her new book.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump teased running again for president in 2024 as he hosted a holiday reception at the White House. “It’s been an amazing four years,” Trump told the crowd, which included many Republican National Committee members. It showed dozens of people crammed into the broad Cross Hall of the White House state floor, standing closely together. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended the Trumps' decision to host the parties. Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman and chief of staff, had said last month that the White House would be moving forward with events, “while providing the safest environment possible."

FILE- In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham listens as President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Stephanie Grisham, who had held the titles of press secretary and White House communications director since last June, is out after never holding a formal press briefing. Also heading to the White House: Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah. Farah has deep ties to the White House, having served as press secretary to Pence and as Meadows' communications director. McBride recalled that it was the first lady, and not the president, who announced last year that Grisham would become the White House press secretary.

A tough week for the White House as public impeachment hearings got under way. Add it all up, and President Donald Trump’s unscheduled weekend visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center raised suspicions about his health, despite White House officials’ insistence that the president was merely getting a head start on his annual physical. It means that we just won't know what the medical issue was.”The president’s medical appointment wasn’t listed on his Saturday public schedule, and his last physical was just nine months ago. She said the country has a long history of presidents hiding physical ailments from the public. Trump and the White House have characterized the visit as “phase 1” of his annual physical.

There are questions swirling about President Trump's sudden trip to the hospital over the weekend. The president left the White House at 2:15 p.m.Saturday looking casual with no tie and carrying a manila folder. Just over 30 minutes later, he arrived at Walter Reed Medical Center in an unannounced trip, catching many by surprise. Dr. Sanjay Gupta challenged the White House's casual attitude, saying on CNN, “\Patient shows up, somewhat of an unannounced visit to the hospital, what's going on? Grisham added, “He’s as healthy as can be.”When he returned to the White House, he screened “Joker” for family and friends.