Tulsi Gabard says she has evidence that Democrats manufactured a connection between Trump and Russia to steal the 2016 election as Trump tries to beat back more stories tying him to Jeffrey Epstein. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the week at the White House.

The Education Department accused Virginia school districts of discrimination. The charges: The Trump administration said five Virginia school districts that allow transgender students to use facilities aligned with their gender identity violate the law.

During Mr. Trump's first term, his labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned following criticism of his handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Epstein served 13 months in a jail work-release program after he was originally accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls and young women.

President Donald Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government's investigation of Epstein, according to a senior administration official and Republicans familiar with the White House's thinking.

The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.

Any time I say anything about Epstein, they’re like, ‘Why didn’t Joe Biden’s — why didn’t Joe Biden release the files?’ And this is what I say: Have you met Merrick Garland?” Tanden

Mark Epstein, the older brother of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refuted the White House’s claims that President Trump never visited the disgraced financier at his office. “That’s

Here’s how Donald Trump’s position on Jeffrey Epstein has changed over the year, and how the fallout over the Epstein files poses a particular challenge for him.