Criminal justice reveals wide split in Georgia governor’s race

If Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has a lasting legacy from his eight years in office, it may very well be his criminal justice initiative. The Republican governor's push to steer nonviolent offenders away from costly prison beds toward rehabilitation programs has gained national renown and rewritten the tough-on-crime Republican playbook.

US lawmaker asks Washington to demand Pyongyang return USS Pueblo: report

A US congressman has sent White House security adviser John Bolton a letter asking Washington to demand that Pyongyang return the US intelligence ship Pueblo to the US Navy, the Voice of America reported Tuesday. According to VOA's Korean service, John Faso, a Republican congressman from New York, said in the letter dated Saturday that the United States should use the repatriation of the ship as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with North Korea.

Kavanaugh’s support for surveilling Americans raises concern Source: AP

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has frequently supported giving the U.S. government wide latitude in the name of national security, including the secret collection of personal data from Americans. It's a subject Democrats plan to grill Kavanaugh about during his confirmation hearings scheduled to begin next Tuesday.

Vietnam says US Senator John McCain helped ‘heal the wounds of war’

US Senator John McCain was a "symbol of his generation" who helped "heal the wounds of war" by pushing for diplomatic normalisation of ties with Vietnam, the Southeast Asian country's foreign minister said on Monday. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday.

Vietnam says John McCain helped ‘heal the wounds of war’

U.S. Senator John McCain was a "symbol of his generation" who helped "heal the wounds of war" by pushing for diplomatic normalization of ties with Vietnam, the Southeast Asian country's foreign minister said on Monday. Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh writes in a condolence book near a portrait of U.S. Senator John McCain about his death at the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam August 27, 2018.

Chelsea Manning on life after prison, how to oppose Trump, and why…

Chelsea Manning: "Once the system has failed and you've exhausted all of your options you have to step up, you have to take risks, you might have to take matters into your own hands." After spending seven years in prison for leaking a huge cache of classified documents, Chelsea Manning is finally free, but she isn't ready to leave the public spotlight.

Trump, the mob boss, wants protection | Eugene Robinson

There's a reason President Donald Trump increasingly sounds like the mob boss in a cliche-ridden gangster film: That's basically what he is -- and he must know how such movies usually end. Early Wednesday morning -- a day after his former campaign chairman was convicted of felonies in one federal courthouse, and his former longtime lawyer pleaded guilty to felonies in another -- Trump issued this statement on Twitter: "I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family.

Trump Changed Washington D.C. People Now Stab Each Other in The Front.

For Trump's Team of Enemies there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a rival vanquished and then being able to comment on it in the immediate aftermath. But unlike other administrations, where the misfortunes of colleagues are gossiped about behind the scenes, Team Trump prefers to stab each other in the front.

Visa overstays present wrinkle in immigration issue

More than 400,000 people came to the U.S. on legal visitor visas in 2017 but were still here six months after their time was up, the government said in a new report Tuesday detailing the less-talked about side of illegal immigration. While people jumping the border gets the most attention, "visa overstays" account for a large percentage of new immigrants who settle illegally in the country every year.

Lewis again grapples with fallout from old on-air remarks

The one-term Republican from Minnesota's Second Congressional District is again running against DFLer Angie Craig, in what's expected to be among the most competitive U.S. House races in the country. In recent weeks, CNN has aired several reports about some questionable remarks Lewis made about women and blacks.