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James Comey certainly didn't do his reputation any good when, during the presidential campaign, the FBI director spotlighted Hillary Clinton's emails and went back and forth on the gravity of the issue. But no one, not even the most savvy Washington insiders and elected officials, could have imagined that President Trump would have fired the director over his handling and mishandling of the email issue.
The Alaska Legislature is scheduled to end its session Wednesday, under a deadline set by the Alaska Constitution. But that doesn't mean its work is over.
Saily Avelenda, left, who joined a group critical of U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer. Saily Avelenda, left, who joined a group critical of U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer.
WASHINGTON - The Latest on the report that President Donald Trump shared classified information with Russian officials : The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee says a report that President Donald Trump shared intelligence about the Islamic State group with Russian officials is "deeply disturbing." Rep. Adam Schiff of California said in a statement Monday that "this disclosure could jeopardize sources of very sensitive intelligence and relationships we have with key partners."
Here are five ways to make you a less-likely victim of cyberhacking and those who would try to hold your data for ransom. Here are five ways to make you a less-likely victim of cyberhacking and those who would try to hold your data for ransom.
President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about Islamic State militants to Russian officials during a meeting at the White House last week, The Washington Post reported Monday. The newspaper cited current and former U.S. officials who said Trump shared details about an Islamic State terror threat with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
After a report surfaced on Monday that President Trump shared classified information with Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, some Senate Republicans initially rushed to defend the president, while other GOP lawmakers, as well as congressional Democrats, expressed alarm. "It's no longer classified the minute he utters it," Republican Senator Jim Risch said , according to Talking Points Memo 's Alice Ollstein.
Back in the 1930s, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously referred to states as “laboratories of democracy.” Enraged by the hundreds of thousands of women who peacefully took to the street in Washington in January, and the activists who camped out to block the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, lawmakers in 20 states are debating or voting on more than 30 bills aimed at criminalizing or otherwise cracking down on the protest movements spawned by President Donald Trump's administration. But critics say that, in their haste, these lawmakers are shredding the Constitution and stomping on free speech rights as they shovel the proposals into the legislative maw.
Apparently not satisfied with the progress on the state budget, the Senate amended a House bill with a Senate budget proposal Monday and sent it back to the lower chamber for consideration, Senate Pro Tem Mike Schulz said. But House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, said the Senate proposal contains a "poison pill" - an increase in the fuel tax.
In this Sept. 18, 2014, file photo, U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., attends a joint meeting of Congress in the House of Representatives chamber at the Capitol in Washington.
A number of candidates for the position, including Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., and Acting FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, interviewed for the job with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over the weekend. ABC News has learned of at least nine other individuals under consideration, including Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., former House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, among others.
Only four units of the entire 417-part system of national parks, monuments, seashores and historical sites carry the names of remarkable plants and trees. California hosts three of these - Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua Tree national parks.
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In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump is considering nearly a dozen candidates to succeed ousted FBI Director James Comey, choosing from a group that includes several lawmakers, attorneys and law enforcement officials.
A New Jersey woman who joined a group critical of a Republican congressman and President Donald Trump's policies says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer. Saily Avelenda, who worked as an attorney for Lakeland Bank, said Monday that a handwritten note at the bottom of a March letter from Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen to a bank board member said a ''ringleader'' of the protest group worked there.
Northern Ohio attorneys react to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' tough on crime directive. And Some Ohio gubernatorial candidates make unusual moves to draw attention.
The short answer is "pretty much anyone", but there are several names that are on top of everyone's list of imagined candidates. At least three members of the U.S. House are mulling a run for a possible U.S. Senate vacancy, should President Donald Trump appoint U.S. Sen. John Cornyn as the new FBI director .
As President Donald Trump considers a replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey, lawmakers are urging the president to steer clear of appointing any politicians. The advice came Sunday amid more criticism over Trump's dismissal of Comey during an FBI probe of Russia's meddling with last year's election and any ties to the Trump campaign.