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A day after blindsiding members of his own party in Congress with a decision to withdraw U.S. military forces fighting against the Islamic State in Syria, President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his move, once more making the case that American troops should be on home soil, not embroiled in military action on the other side of the globe. "Getting out of Syria was no surprise," the President tweeted before sunrise on Thursday.
TheDC's Vince Coglianese sat down with Ja'Ron Smith, special assistant to President Donald Trump in legislative affairs, to discuss the First Step Act on Wednesday. The bill, which includes both prison and sentencing reforms, passed the Senate on Tuesday night by a vote of 87-12.
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Late last night, the Senate passed First Step, the leniency legislation that will free many thousands of felons from federal prison and shorten the sentences of many thousands of future felons. The vote was 87-12.
CNN commentator Van Jones on Wednesday praised the Senate and the Trump administration for their efforts to pass a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill. "You had for the first time in more than a generation, both parties coming together to do something for people at the bottom," he said.
Michael Flynn entered a courtroom Tuesday with the hope of a lenient sentence with no prison time and a thank-you for his cooperation. Instead, Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, left with the threat of a prison term, a delay in sentencing and a stinging rebuke from a federal judge who told him, "Arguably, you sold your country out."
Washington - President Donald Trump's former national security chief on Tuesday received a delay in sentencing for lying over Russian contacts, after a judge threatened him with stiff jail time and said: "You sold your country out." Russia collusion investigation head Robert Mueller had proposed Michael Flynn receive no jail time for lying to investigators about his Moscow ties -- and in his own pitch to the court last week, Flynn had requested the same.
An ex-business partner of former US national security adviser Michael Flynn and a businessman with ties to Turkish Government officials have been charged with undisclosed lobbying aimed at the extradition of a Muslim cleric living in the United States. Mr Flynn's former partner, Bijan Rafiekian, was indicted on two criminal counts, including conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Either that, or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does get it, and he's desperately afraid that the rest of us are going to figure it out. Either way, his evasions, elisions, dodges and deflections in response to the detention of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wangzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant earlier this month betray his preference to cringe and cower rather than stand up to Xi Jinping's increasingly bellicose police state in Beijing.
Libyan National Army captures Benghazi terrorists involved in killing of the US Ambassador in 2012 and those who killed a US chemistry teacher a year later The Libyan Army say they have captured terrorists responsible for the deaths of the US Ambassador in the Benghazi attack in 2012 and a US teacher in 2013. The Libyan National Army said they detained Islamists responsible for the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in 2012 and US chemistry teacher, Ronnie Smith, also murdered in Benghazi in 2013.
A panel of state court judges on Thursday squirmed over the prospect of jailing President Trump for contempt should they allow a defamation case by a former "Apprentice" contestant to proceed. "Are you saying we could order the president arrested? Incarcerated?" Justice Angela Mazzarelli asked in a Manhattan appeals court Thursday.
Six inmates killed themselves in three years at the Cumberland County Jail -- and now, a DOJ investigation is looking at the site, NJ.com reports. Cards were reportedly passed out at the jail on Tuesday, saying in part that the agency "is investigating whether the Cumberland County Jail provides adequate mental health care to prisoners and takes reasonable measures to prevent suicides."
Iran just sent a veiled warning to the U.S. military: We see you, and now we can reach you everywhere. Iranian Revolutionary Guard aerospace division chief Amirali Hajizadeh declared Tuesday that Iran had boosted the range of its land-to-sea ballistic missiles up to 700 km, or 435 miles, Reuters reports , capable of hitting "any vessel or ship" at that range.
In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, reversing his predecessor Obama's ultimately fruitless 2009 directive to shutter the facility that has drawn global scorn. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, reversing his predecessor Obama's ultimately fruitless 2009 directive to shutter the facility that has drawn global scorn.
A report by the Postal Service Office of Inspector General demonstrates just how valuable the mail is as a marketing tool for drug pushers: "For example, a cocaine trafficker claimed to have used the Postal Service to successfully distribute nearly 4,000 shipments, stating that they had a 100 percent delivery success rate. In addition, of the 96 traffickers who indicated they used the Postal Service as their shipping provider, 43 percent offered free, partial, or full reshipment if the package did not arrive to the buyer's address because it was confiscated, stolen, or lost."
And there was more good news for pot aficionados: Hours before a handful of retail outlets opened in the country's easternmost province a federal official told The Associated Press that Canada will pardon all those with convictions for possessing up to 30 grams of marijuana, the now-legal threshold. A formal announcement was planned for later Wednesday.
President Trump threatened on Tuesday to withhold aid from the Honduran government if it did not halt a mass migration of more than 1,500 people, mainly from Honduras, who crossed into Guatemala this week, many with the intention of reaching the United States. "The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" President Trump said on his Twitter account .