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Add The Note as an interest to stay up to date on the latest The Note news, video, and analysis from ABC News. President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court continues to enjoy the backing of Senate Republican leadership, much of the conservative movement and media, and the White House itself.
Nelson Mandela's South African journey from anti-apartheid leader to prisoner to president to global statesman - the "Long Walk to Freedom" of his autobiography title - is one of the 20th century's great stories of struggle, sacrifice and reconciliation. Now the United Nations is seeking to harness its soaring symbolism.
Juggling a suddenly hot-potato Supreme Court nomination and midterm-election jousting, President Donald Trump flubbed facts across a broad front over the past week. His comments about nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser betrayed a misunderstanding of how the process works.
The U.K. is America's closest intelligence ally and has a strong interest in keeping the surveillance application out of sight. But Trump still hasn't ruled out declassification.
The Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center today examined issues central to the former Louisiana governor's tenure during its inaugural colloquium. Former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu moderated the program.
Rebuilding the Danbury federal penitentiary cost needless expense and exposed female inmates to poor conditions and even danger while temporarily held in Brooklyn, two U.S. Department of Justice reports conclude. The reports by the department's Office of the Inspector General cover the period between July 2013 when the U.S. Bureau of Prisons announced it would convert Danbury from a prison housing women to one housing men, and October 2017 when the construction project was finished.
A federal judge is set to decide Thursday whether a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo receives leniency or a long prison sentence for fraud and accepting bribes. Joseph Percoco's conviction last spring was an election-year embarrassment for Cuomo.
In Huffington magazine this week, John Rudolf takes us inside the world of public defenders, who put in long hours for low pay to represent criminal defendants who cannot afford private lawyers. And Katie Bindley takes us inside the very different world of lifestyle concierges, encompassing everything from pregnancy planners to personal grocery shoppers for plastic surgery patients.
One person is currently prosecuting illegal voting by aliens in the United States. And it's not Mr. In Charge Since Day 1 , nor any of the Obama holdovers that Jeff Sessions has allowed to dominate the Trump Department of Justice.
I'm sure it is lots of fun. I just spent a summer temping in a father/son office where, when not yelling at their administrator , they did nothing but talk about golf.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a sweeping set of agreements after their second day of talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday that included a promise by Kim to permanently dismantle the North's main nuclear complex if the United States takes corresponding measures, the acceptance of international inspectors to monitor the closing of a key missile test site and launch pad and a vow to work together to host the Summer Olympics in 2032. Declaring they had made a major step toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders were side by side as they announced the joint statement to a group of North and South Korean reporters after a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a sweeping set of agreements after their second day of talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday that included a promise by Kim to permanently dismantle the North's main nuclear complex if the United States takes corresponding measures, the acceptance of international inspectors to monitor the closing of a key missile test site and launch pad and a vow to work together to host the Summer Olympics in 2032. Declaring they had made a major step toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders were side by side as they announced the joint statement to a group of North and South Korean reporters after a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a sweeping set of agreements after their second day of talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday that included a promise by Kim to permanently dismantle the North's main nuclear complex if the United States takes corresponding measures, the acceptance of international inspectors to monitor the closing of a key missile test site and launch pad and a vow to work together to host the Summer Olympics in 2032. Declaring they had made a major step toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders were side by side as they announced the joint statement to a group of North and South Korean reporters after a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning.
The most unconscionable situation is the thousands of migrant youths that the U.S. government currently has locked up in its rapidly expanding archipelago of detention centers - tents rapidly erected in the arid desert or other substandard facilities rife with abuse. It seemed like a typical Tuesday morning last month when Juan Esquivel noticed a helicopter hovering over the East Texas trailer-parts factory where the Mexican native had worked for much of his 23 years in the United States - doing a hard manufacturing job that few Americans are lining up to do, paying taxes to the federal government and building a middle-class life for his wife and two kids in a quiet community called Honey Grove.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. It sounds unlikely, but the record shows that the most effective foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump since his election has been Barack Obama.
Friday was a good day for the rule of law. Paul Manafort admitted to a bevy of crimes he committed over nearly a decade, and he agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many jails across the country are only now rolling out medicines to help inmates overcome addiction. And most of those jails dispense only one of the drugs currently available.
Tropical Storm Florence dumped "epic" amounts of rain on North and South Carolina as it trudged inland on Saturday, knocking out power and causing at least eight deaths as flood waters that have devastated many communities kept rising. Florence's intensity has diminished since it roared ashore along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast on Friday as a hurricane.
"I'm always open to talking to the president to make change. Everybody I was in prison with always encouraged me to go, take the sacrifice, even if you get crucified in the media - go, try to make change," the rapper told ABC News on Friday, after participating in a panel discussion during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference , which was held in Washington D.C. and hosted by Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.