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.

DORAL, Fla. - According to a New York Times report, a spoof video at a pro-President Donald Trump rally showed Trump shooting political and media enemies. The video in question depicts Trump's likeness superimposed over Colin Firth's face from a violent church fight scene from a 2014 movie called "Kingsman: The Secret Service." According to the New York Times report, the video aired during a three-day event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort last week. Among the guests scheduled to speak were Donald Trump Jr. and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. Event organizers indicated the video was submitted by a third party and said they were looking into how the video was shown at the conference, while also condemning it.

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 30: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media prior to his departure for Camp David August 30, 2019 at the White House in Washington, DC. President Trump said he will be monitoring the latestSTERLING, Va. - President Donald Trump was receiving hourly updates on Hurricane Dorian while at his private Virginia golf club, according to White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham. The president has also been retweeting storm updates issued by the National Hurricane Center. Trump participated in a briefing on Dorian at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Washington headquarters on Sunday. Dorian was hovering over the Bahamas on Monday after pummeling the islands with winds topping 150 mph or 240 kph.

Getty Images(CNN) - Melania Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham will get a major new role as both White House press secretary and communications director, the first lady tweeted Tuesday. #BeBest" Melania Trump tweeted. President Donald Trump didn't look far for his next press secretary in Grisham, who for the past two years has been the communications director for the first lady. Trump has appointed Grisham both White House director of communications as well as press secretary, a senior White House official tells CNN. But it was Grisham's participation in one of Melania Trump's biggest power plays that got the most attention.