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During his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced the issuance of an executive order that ignored the conclusion shared by both the Obama and Bush administrations: The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does more harm to the United States than good. The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay "as soon as practicable" and paves the way for new, additional detainees to be added to the existing detainee population.
Wouldn't if be ironic if the very document that started the whole Russia-collusion story ends up making a large portion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation completely public? Last week I posted on the lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed against the DNC . BuzzFeed is locked in an existential battle with a Russian tech mogul named Aleksej Gubarev.
For families who have searched years for missing loved ones, donating a sample of their DNA is often a last, desperate act to confirm their worst fears. New York City's medical examiner is leading a nationwide effort to collect genetic material and match it with unidentified human remains.
On Feb. 18, 1678, the first part of "The Pilgrim's Progress," a Christian allegory by English author John Bunyan, was published in London. In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto, now designated a "dwarf planet," was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 212 illegal immigrants - 195 of them convicted criminals - in a five-day raid in Los Angeles, Calif. The raid resulted in the arrests of 212 illegal immigrants and the targeting of 122 businesses.
President Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for abandoning the young immigrants whose legal status is up in the air because of a step he took six months ago. Those immigrants, who arrived in the United States illegally as children, became a bargaining chip in legislation that collapsed this past week as Trump sought tougher border enforcement and limits on legal immigration, proposing steps that many Republicans as well as Democrats would not support.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three organizations for allegedly interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election sets the stage for the prosecution of Americans who may have helped the Russian effort, some legal experts said. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told reporters on Friday there was no allegation in the indictment that any American knew about the alleged scheme.
A California man who pleaded guilty to identity theft as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was a self-described digital marketing strategist who once ran a web site that helped people get around security measures for online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. Richard Pinedo, 28, of Santa Paula, pleaded guilty this month to one count of identity fraud as part of the investigation, according to court documents made public Friday by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
A year before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, two Russian operatives landed in the United States to lay groundwork for an intelligence operation targeting the legitimacy of the 2016 election. What began as a Cold War-like attack by an old adversary would mix old-fashioned political agitation with 21st century social media tools that ultimately roiled the election and shook the America's political landscape.
Just months after his 18th birthday, Nikolas Cruz went to a Florida gun store to buy a weapon. But there were limits on what he could purchase at his age.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions after Sessions criticized his criminal-justice overhaul a day before a committee vote. Sessions said in a letter that the legislation -- approved Thursday by the Judiciary Committee in a 16-5 vote -- could let the "very worst criminals" and gang members out of prison early.
'Drug smugglers' desperately dump 1,800 lbs of cocaine worth A 16.5m off the side of a speedboat during a high-speed chase with the US Coast Guard A Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton apprehended the smugglers as part of an operation that seized seven tons of cocaine This is the shocking moment a suspected drug smuggler dumped millions of pounds worth of cocaine in the sea during a US Coast Guard chase. A person was caught on camera dumping 1,800lbs of cocaine into the waters, with an approximate street value of A 16.5 million.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday rolled out its budget for fiscal year 2019, asking Congress for 716 billion U.S. dollars for arms purchases and a staff expansion, and bringing a slew of questions and doubts. The entire budget consists of three parts -- the base budget of 617 billion U.S. dollars, covering Pentagon operation costs and arms procurement, the war fund, or Overseas Contingency Operations, of 69 billion dollars, and the defense budget of 30 billion dollars to keep other government agencies functioning.
The election of Donald Trump may have surprised some observers, but many Californians felt a sense of dA jA vu. Just over 20 years ago, the state passed Proposition 187.
Rojina Akter faces deportation at a routine check-in with immigration officials on Thursday. Her husband was returned to their native Bangladesh on Monday.
Kuwait on Wednesday hosted the final day of a conference seeking billions of dollars to help ... . Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi prepares for a donor's summit at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.
Law enforcement officials including agents with the FBI stand outside a home on Rice Lane in rural Vacaville after an early morning raid at the home. Law enforcement officials confirmed that it was part of an FBI investigation that was conducted at multiple locations in Northern California.
As he envisions a manufacturing revival, President Donald Trump is telling lawmakers the U.S. has a vast, idle labor pool itching to go to work. That's a mirage.
As he envisions a manufacturing revival, President Donald Trump is telling lawmakers the U.S. has a vast, idle labor pool itching to go to work. That's a mirage.
First lady Melania Trump arrives in the House chamber before President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Jan. 30. President Donald Trump stood in the well of the House chamber on the penultimate night of January and spoke about undocumented immigrants with his familiar rhetoric . During his first State of the Union address, the "America first" president lambasted the country's immigration laws, saying they have for too long "allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities," cost poor Americans jobs, and "caused the loss of many innocent lives."