Donald Trump's administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress - an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has reignited an effort in Congress to wrest back power from the executive branch and assert more control over legislative branch ...

Uncertainty gripped the Library of Congress on Monday as the White House moved to assert more control over the legislative branch agency, naming Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as its acting head ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden arrives at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize, to be awarded to Joni Mitchell at DAR ...

Leaders of the Republican Party have reportedly thwarted U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to take control of the Library of Congress. After four months of allowing the White House free rein in ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) Tuesday joined Democrats in pushing back against President Donald Trump's effort to install his own leadership team at the Library of Congress, which is part ...

The president named Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, as the acting librarian. But staff members refused access to two department officials he chose for key roles at Congress’s main research ...

The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research library ...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said she does not feel her termination was personal and that she is concerned there is not much awareness from the White House on what the library actually ...

The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself a little. It hasn’t happened over any of the numerous brazen abuses of the ...