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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.
US President Barack Obama greets President-elect Donald Trump at inauguration ceremonies swearing in Trump as president on the West front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 20, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria/Files The former top US intelligence official rejected President Donald Trump's accusation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped him even as the White House on Sunday urged Congress to investigate Trump's allegation.
Police in a Seattle suburb say they are seeking a white gunman after Indian Sikh man said he was shot in arm, told to "go back to your own country." . Police in a Seattle suburb say they are seeking a white gunman after Indian Sikh man said he was shot in arm, told to "go back to your own country."
How is Donald Trump "not a normal Republican"? Let New York magazine's Jonathan Chait count the ways. Trump is "crudely ethno-nationalist," wrote Chait in a Tuesday post , and he's "personally ignorant and undisciplined in a manner that sets him apart not only from traditional Republicans but most human adults."
Former Vice President Joe Biden's son is dating the widow of his other son, the late Beau Biden, according to a report. The New York Post reports that Hallie Biden and Hunter Biden began dating after Hunter separated from his wife.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday if the FBI determines that President Donald Trump's campaign illegally coordinated with Russia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from making the decision whether to pursue prosecutions. But Graham deflected a question about a new Washington Post report that Sessions twice spoke with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign, saying he needs to know more.
As reported by Bloomberg , Penguin Random House will publish separate books from the Obamas and their payment is more than another any other USA presidential memoirs. He further added that "Now, we are very much looking forward to working together with the former president and his wife to make each of their books global publishing events of unprecedented scope and significance".
Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal to publish their memoirs with New York-based Penguin Random House, in a coveted contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. He has frequently declared himself to have a "writer's sensibility" and has said he does not want to write a conventional blow-by-blow account of his time in the White House.
The Democrats have selected their new chair and it was an upset. Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was chosen over Keith Ellison in a very tight battle where Perez received 235 votes and Ellison got 200.
His administration "insults women" and his unwelcome presence in public life "insults us all." And, because the Republican party is all about the winning these days, the GOP establishment is "ready to forgive" .
This artist rendering shows a wide-angle view of the liftoff of the Block 1 70-metric-ton crew vehicle configuration SLS from the launchpad. It's not official, yet, but this week's report that President Trump wants NASA to go back to the moon in his first term is electrifying the space community.
The New York Times reported that law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted calls and phone records showing Donald Trump's presidential campaign aides, as well as other associates, having repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election. The report names four people close to Trump - including Michael Flynn, who recently stepped down as national security adviser - in the FBI's inquiry into links between Trump associates and the Russian government.
Consumer groups are bracing for a more pro-industry approach to safety, fearful that strides made in the name of product safety will be rolled back, as Republicans take the helm of the nation's key consumer safety agency. The Trump Administration last week elevated Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican appointed to the commission in 2013, to the post of acting chairman.
With Michael Flynn's resignation, the Flynn story is not done - and neither is the need for an investigation of Flynn and his contacts with Russia. Late on Monday night, Flynn, Donald Trump's combative and controversial national security adviser, quit his post, after days of incoming fire following a Washington Post report that he had lied about his December contacts with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
Along with his remarked-upon shortfalls in diplomacy, nuance, finesse, rationality and often good manners, our 45th president has also been docked for his diversity shortfall. This means he is surrounded by too many persons of pallor and of masculinity, in other words, by white males.
National Review writer Alexandra Desanctis on Wednesday published a piece purporting to explain how recent conservative efforts to defend "religious freedom" aren't really about discriminating against LGBT Americans. Since she used a Salon piece written a day earlier by a former colleague of mine, Nico Lang, to illustrate how liberals are "maliciously mischaracteriz[ing] FADA and other religious-freedom protections," it seems only fair to issue a point-by-point response to the specious claims made in the National Review.
But three weeks into his presidency, he has been repeatedly disarmed and frustrated by partisan opponents and the machinery of a government designed to check his power. It hasn't been for a lack of trying.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser addressed U.S. sanctions against Russia in his conversations with the country's ambassador while President Barack Obama was still in office, a new report said, contradicting previous claims that the matter was not discussed. A Trump administration official told The Associated Press that Michael Flynn "can't be certain" that sanctions did not come up in his discussions with the Russian ambassador.
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