Trump administration returning Senate torture report

The CIA and director of national intelligence will return their copies of the Senate intelligence committee's massive 6,700-page report on the CIA's interrogation and detention program under the George W. Bush administration, a Senate aide confirmed to CNN Friday. The decision means it's highly unlikely the report - which concluded that interrogation techniques such as waterboarding did not elicit useful intelligence from detainees - will be made public so long as Republicans control the Senate and the White House.

Analysis: Trump’s climate decision puts US on a lonely path

President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the landmark Paris climate accord sends an unmistakable message to the world: America First can mean America Alone. Trump's move, announced with great fanfare in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, immediately leaves the United States isolated on a paramount global concern.

Al Gore would have been president if Ohio were split in two

This is because he would have won Western Reserve - the 26-county area of northern Ohio that cleveland.com is creating as a fictional state to highlight the differences between our region and the rest of Ohio. This post is part of cleveland.com's series, "Western Reserve: the 51st state?" exploring the creation of a new state with more representative government.

Here is what’s it like to have a special counsel, like Robert Mueller, hounding you

Ever wondered what it's like to be pursued, badgered and threatened legally by a special counsel, like the one appointed last week to investigate the Trump campaign's ties to Russia? I can tell you firsthand. In 2003, the George W. Bush administration leaked the name of a CIA operations officer, Valerie Plame, to syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

Disruptive passenger in Trump cap delays Shanghai flight

In this July 8, 2015, file photo, United Airlines planes are seen on the tarmac at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. United Airlines says a disruptive passenger on a flight from Shanghai to New Jersey was asked to get off, resulting in an unscheduled stop in San Francisco and an arrival delayed by eight hours.

Stay the Course With Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran's president in a landslide, meaning that it is he who will be dealing with an antagonistic US President Donald Trump. What will their relationship mean for the 2015 international agreement that has, for now, frozen Iran's nuclear ambitions? The Iranian nuclear deal was the culmination of a decades-long pas de deux between the United States and post-revolutionary Iran - a push and pull, in which every step forward was seemingly followed by a step back.

Roger Stone: Trump’s Saudi award ‘makes me want to puke’

As President Donald Trump celebrated what he called a "tremendous" first day in Saudi Arabia, his onetime campaign adviser and longtime confidante Roger Stone expressed nothing but aversion for the Gulf nation and parts of the President's trip. In a litany of tweets, Stone berated Saudi Arabia as "the enemy" and slammed Trump for accepting the Order of Abdulaziz from King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

New special counsel Robert Mueller has history of standing up to the White House

Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in 2013. Robert S. Mueller III, who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the last two administrations, brings to his new role as special counsel a proven willingness to take on a sitting president.

Ninth Circuit questions Trump’s statements on Muslims

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle Monday pressed attorneys for the Trump administration and the State of Hawaii on whether President Donald Trump's statements, both as a candidate and as president, render his revised travel ban unconstitutional, and whether Trump has disavowed his call for a "Muslim ban." Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson's March 16 order that blocked the president's second travel ban just hours before it was to go into effect - a ruling the president called an "unprecedented judicial overreach" that made America "look weak."

U.S. Senate intel panel invites James Comey to testify in Public

New York [U.S.], May 17 : The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday said the panel's Republican chairman has extended an invitation to fired FBI director James Comey to testify publicly before the panel. Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat said that the invitation signed by chairman Richard Burr, has been sent to Comey.