Caroline S. Engelmayer

President Trump picks a Texas congressman and loyalist to replace Dan Coats as the country’s top-ranking intelligence official, removing a national security official who had clashed with him on Russia and other matters.

As the crisis of homelessness worsens in many major urban areas, the Trump administration has proposed deep cuts in the federal housing budget and has walked back Obama-era policies aimed at homelessness, making the problem worse, many experts say.

Acosta announced his resignation Friday amid mounting criticism of a lenient plea deal he struck with a now-convicted sex offender while Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida.

President Trump said Tuesday that he would look “very carefully” at Labor Secretary R.