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In the months following the 9-11 terror attacks, as America's intelligence agencies struggled to explain how they missed connecting the dots leading to the attacks, there began a major push both inside and outside government to ensure such a lapse never occurred again. The focal point of this push was the intelligence community's ability to access what it determined to be critical information -- emails, text messages, phone calls, and any other digital communication -- necessary for collecting and analyzing to find "suspicious" activity.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, as he is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family while he formally signs his cabinet nominations into law, in the President's Room of the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2017. Defeated and in the minority, Democrats in Congress have few options to push their own agenda.
The chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is predicting a smooth path to confirmation for David Shulkin, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Johnny Isakson met with Shulkin on Tuesday.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer takes questions about President Trump's contention of widespread voter fraud at a press briefing Tuesday. The White House on Tuesday reiterated President Trump's false contention that he lost the national popular vote because of 3 million to 5 million illegal votes, as yet another untruth swelled into a distraction that threatens to undermine his first week in office.
The Senate has voted decisively to approve President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senators easily confirmed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for the post, 96-4, despite her lack of foreign policy experience.
As a black man from Alabama, Willie Huntley Jr. has deep reverence for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, an organizer of the landmark marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. So Huntley got a little emotional earlier this month when he found himself in the same Senate hearing room as Lewis.
The Senate... . Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., right, accompanied by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at his confirmation hearing... .
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., tried to test whether President Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget believed in facts or "alternative facts" in a confirmation hearing on Tuesday. With the incoming Trump administration repeating falsehoods about the size of crowds at the president's inauguration, Merkley asked Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., to look at two side-by-side photos - taken at roughly the same time during former President Obama's inauguration in 2009 and Trump's just last week - to gauge which, in fact, was bigger.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will announce a candidate next week to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. "We will pick a truly great Supreme Court justice," Trump told reporters who asked about the vacancy as the president signed paperwork to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
Georgia Rep. Tom Price , Donald Trump 's pick to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Tuesday rejected conflict of interest and abuse of power accusations related to stock investments. Price has been criticized for actively trading in stocks for Australian pharmaceutical company Innate Immunotherapeutics during the time that he was promoting legislation that could affect the company .
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo either radiation or surgery for treatment, he announced Tuesday. Dayton revealed the information a day after he collapsed at the podium while giving the annual State of the State address.
Senate Democrats are offering President Donald Trump a $1 trillion proposal to upgrade the nation's aging infrastructure - but he'd have to split with Republicans to get it. In their first major bid to force Trump's hand on a policy issue where the President's populism is at odds with spendthrift congressional GOP leadership, top Democrats unveiled their infrastructure package Tuesday.
The "King of Bankruptcy" just got a step closer to becoming America's next commerce secretary. But Wilbur Ross first had to promise not to censor or intimidate climate scientists.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday will propose spending $1 trillion on transportation and other infrastructure projects over 10 years in an attempt to engage President Donald Trump on an issue where they hope to find common ground. Details of the plan provided to The Associated Press include $200 billion for a "vital infrastructure fund."
Desperately seeking ammunition to defend their disastrous health care reform act, Sen. Charles Schumer and other Democratic Party leaders commissioned the Congressional Budget Office to report on the effects of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The CBO played the part of Chicken Little and obediently calculated that 32 million Americans would lose their health insurance coverage at the same time as premium costs would rise, all due to repeal.
THE BIG STORY: He can't help himself, and he isn't helping himself. It may have only been a few throwaway lines in his private meeting with lawmakers, but President Trump has managed to again hijack his own early narrative.
Don't count her out yet! Top Clinton donor says Hillary told him she's still '50-50' on whether to run for New York Mayor He said he will hold off his own decision to run for mayor until the former secretary of state decides what she will do Hillary Clinton is '50-50' on deciding whether or not she will run for New York mayor, a city political insider claims. Supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis said he's convinced that Clinton might challenge current Mayor Bill de Blasio with a campaign this year Catsimatidis, a billionaire who was a Clinton donor during the 2016 presidential campaign, said he will hold off his own decision to run for mayor until the former secretary of state decides what she will do.
People across the world are paying great attention to the first actions of the 45th US President Donald Trump, who took office as head of the most powerful state in the world on January 20. In a very strong signal for some parts of the world, including Ukraine, the new leader's first decree was one appointing General James Mattis, who is known for his tough stance on Russia, to lead the Pentagon. By his second decree, he appointed Marine General John Kelly as US secretary of homeland security.
Next stop, Necker Island: Barack and Michelle Obama are all smiles as they arrive in the British Virgin Islands on Richard Branson's private jet and head straight for his lavish private island retreat Minnesota governor Mark Dayton, 69, COLLAPSES during his State of the State speech as shocked fellow lawmakers rush to his aid Why stress can make you younger and the simple exercises that will turn back the clock: How to slow down ageing Kellyanne Conway 'punched a tuxedo-clad man repeatedly in the face as she broke up a fight at inauguration ball' Revealed: Obama defied Congress to hand $220 MILLION to Palestinians in dying hours of his time in office - and gave millions for climate change too Your essential Good Health SURVIVAL GUIDE: Can roast potatoes and burnt toast really give you cancer? Experts reveal over-cooked starchy foods is worse for you than you think Her cynical ... (more)
Rep. Michael Pompeo, R-Kan., is sworn in on Capitol Hill Jan. 12, before testifying at his confirmation hearing as CIA director before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Pompeo was confirmed by the full Senate Monday night.