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In this March 6, 2012 file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, left, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers, in Washington during a news conference. The family of Levinson, who went missing in Iran a decade ago on an unauthorized CIA assignment, filed a lawsuit Tuesday, March 21, 2017, against Iran.
Congressional Votes WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted the week of March 17-23. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/2n1T5G6 Along with roll call votes this week, the Senate also passed the Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act , to encourage effective, voluntary investments to recruit, employ, and retain men and women who have served in the military with annual federal awards to employers recognizing such efforts.
Think Trump would boast about Russia's Bolshoi Ballet performing at one of his "get out the vote" campaign rallies? Think the mainstream media might trumpet such an event as the Holy Grail, Golden Fleece and Smoking Gun of that ever-elusive "Russian collusion" with his campaign? "The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them.
District crime lab officials are reviewing more than 150 firearm examinations for accuracy after the lab discovered errors by three D.C. forensic analysts who wrongly matched bullets or shell casings recovered at crime scenes to individual weapons. The examinations date to at least August 2015, according to federal prosecutors in Washington and the three former ballistics examiners.
In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington. A House committee wants the White House and Trump administration officials to detail all the payments and contacts that Flynn had with foreign government representatives spanning the past three years.
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.
One resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. According to the indictment presented to the court, on July 7, 2016, Bargerstock possessed with intent to distribute and distributed fentanyl that caused the serious bodily injury and death of a person.
Rep. Adam Schiff , the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, made something very clear in his opening statement on Monday: "Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians had the help of U.S. citizens, including people associated with the Trump campaign," he said. "Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests.
President Trump and the executive committee of the Congressional Black Caucus will meet Wednesday morning, the White House and the office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., confirmed. Trump, leadership of Congressional Black Caucus, to meet Wednesday President Trump and the executive committee of the Congressional Black Caucus will meet Wednesday morning, the White House and the office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., confirmed.
Several lawmakers expressed alarm Tuesday with President Donald Trump's plans to halt military exercises with U.S. ally South Korea following his historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, with some of them arguing any deal has to be ratified by Congress. Among them, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was caught off guard since Trump had said military cooperation would not necessarily be part of a first meeting with Kim.
Arkansas has acquired a new supply of a drug needed for its lethal injections ahead of next month's scheduled executions of eight men over four nights, a state corrections spokesman said on Monday. Arkansas, which has not put an inmate to death since 2005, is one of several states where executions have been on hold because of legal battles and problems in procuring lethal injection drugs after a sales ban by major pharmaceutical makers.
He wasn't kidding. Now, as leader of the free world, he gets up in the morning and, long before receiving his intelligence briefing , he flips on cable news and starts tweeting.
In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump unveils a proposed budget on March 16 that will sharply test RepublicansA' ability to keep longstanding promises to beef up the military by making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.
Washington: The Trump administration's belief that it's besieged by a so-called deep state - rogue elements of the bureaucracy bent on undermining it - came under direct challenge on Sunday, when Republican senator John McCain demanded that the President put up or shut up on his claim that Barack Obama had ordered wire taps on Trump Tower.It was further challenged when Preet Bharara, the much-admired US attorney of the southern district of New York, refused to comply with a Trump request that he resign along with 45 other attorneys across the country who had been asked to quit, forcing the White House to sack him.
We are now onlya week from the start of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, and this new extended AP article reviews Judge Gorsuch's record onthe cases that I usually give the most attention. The article is headlined "Gorsuch has ruled for police, and suspects, in crime cases," and here are excerpts: Judge Neil Gorsuch wasn't convinced that a teenager who made burping sounds in a classroom should be arrested, handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention in a police car.
A European band on its way to play Austin's SXSW Festival has been deported by U.S. customs officials - and the incident could foreshadow further problems for the event and others like it. Soviet Soviet, an indie rock trio from Italy, was detained Wednesday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where the band had arrived on its way to Texas.
Some of Donald Trump's boasts from the first weeks of his presidency were dashed by developments in recent days. For example, builders of the Keystone XL pipeline were let off the hook from a buy-American requirement that Trump had promised.
In this March 10, 2017, photo, White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. Spicer tweeted on Friday: "Great news for American workers: economy added 235,000 new jobs, unemployment rate drops to 4.7% in first report for @POTUS Trump."
Violence in Central America has caused a surge in families requesting asylum. The Trump administration has confirmed it's looking at bold moves to discourage them.