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Comey diagnoses the dangerous disease in Trumpland Trump's contagious lies infect everyone around him with totalitarian obedience. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/2nFuLyd Is there a link between President Trump's breathtaking allegation that former president Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower and the Russian plot to sway the American election against Hillary Clinton? Both matters were the subject of long-awaited congressional testimony by FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers.
In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., questions Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis on Capitol Hill in Washington during Mattis confirmation hearing before the committee. Gillibrand, one of a handful of Senate Democrats seen as potential candidates for president in 2020, has won praise from liberal bloggers for voting against nearly all of President Donald Trump's picks.
Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is to hold a first meeting today with his newly sworn-in American counterpart James Mattis. The two former soldiers-turned-cabinet-members are to meet at the Pentagon for a scheduled 45-minute discussion on a broad range of topics including military co-operation both abroad and closer to home.
A bill requiring members to an expanded county commission be chosen through special election and not by gubernatorial appointment cleared the Kansas House of Representatives on a voice vote Wednesday morning.
The wife of an Iraqi national who was detained at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, at her sister's home in Houston, Jan. 28, 2017. President Donald Trump enacted an order Friday that blocks entry into the country for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq.
Lonely leaders: James Mattis, top, was sworn in as secretary of defense, and John Kelly, above, became homeland security secretary on Friday. Other Cabinet nominees are waiting.
In a Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. questions Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Mattis.
Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis listens to questions from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., about his views on women and gays serving in the military, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis listens at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017.
On Thursday, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis took to the stand for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee as President-elect Trump's nominee for secretary of Defense.
Rivalry brewing on Trump team - 's nomination of James Mattis as Defense secretary is sparking questions about how well the retired Marine general will get along with Mike Flynn, the three-star general set to be national security adviser.
In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is shown while meeting with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A failed voting fraud prosecution from more than 30 years ago is likely to re-emerge as a contentious issue during Jeff SessionsA' confirmation hearing for attorney general.
Donald Trump's move to pack his administration with military brass is getting mixed reviews, as Congress and others struggle to balance their personal regard for the individuals he's choosing with a broader worry about an increased militarization of American policy. No fewer than three combat-experienced retired Army and Marine leaders, with multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, are on tap for high-level government jobs normally reserved for civilians.
In this Nov. 19, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as he leaves Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump said at a rally on Dec. 1, that he will nominate Mattis as defense secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he would nominate retired General Marine Corps James Mattis to be his defense secretary. Mattis, who is known as "Mad Dog" and renowned for his tough talk, retired in 2013 after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump's one-time presidential rival, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, appeared to be next in line for the nod -- reportedly as housing secretary -- after he posted on social media that an announcement was imminent President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos after their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey on November 18, 2016. AFP PHOTO The 70-year-old property tycoon also told the Times that he is "seriously, seriously considering" appointing widely respected retired Marine general James Mattis as his defence secretary.
UPDATE : Romney under "active consideration" for secretary of state position, according to The Wall Street Journal . President-elect Donald J. Trump also met with Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of DC's public schools, who would invite a fight with teachers unions should she be selected as education secretary : Trump also met with well-known education activist Michelle Rhee and her husband, Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento; Betsy DeVos, another education activist; and with retired Marine Corps Gen.
A New York utility plans to approve a wind farm off eastern Long Island that it says would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project built to date.
Britain's sprinter Mark Cavendish puts on the overall leader's yellow jersey after the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 188 kilometers with start in Mont-Saint-Michel and finish in Utah Beach,... . Britain's Mark Cavendish, center, sprints towards the finish line ahead of Germany's sprinter Marcel Kittel, right, to win the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 188 kilometers with start in Mont-... .