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The House intelligence committee voted Friday to release transcripts of more than 50 interviews it conducted as part of its now-closed investigation into Russian election interference during the 2016 presidential campaign. Among those to be released are interviews with President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his longtime spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, and his former bodyguard Keith Schiller.
The green lower receiver for the AR-15 was printed by Cody Wilson in 2012. The federal government settled with Wilson to allow him to post his firearm designs online.
Federal prosecutors concluded an 18-month investigation into a former congressional technology staffer on Tuesday by publicly debunking allegations - promoted by conservative media and President Donald Trump - suggesting he was a Pakistani operative who stole government secrets with cover from House Democrats. As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Imran Awan pleaded guilty to a relatively minor offense unrelated to his work on Capitol Hill: making a false statement on a bank loan application.
At a gala fundraiser for the Florida Democratic Party in Hollywood on Sunday, party leaders including Chair Terrie Rizzo stood onstage and repeatedly condemned the Trump Administration for imprisoning immigrant children at detention facilities across the country. But when a group of activists proposed a ban on all political donations from the private-prison companies who profit off Trump's policies, a small but influential minority of old-guard party officials fought back and nearly succeeded in killing the measure.
Democrats and Republicans aren't often on the same team, but on Wednesday, they will with two aims: to beat the press and to fundraise for breast cancer survivors. The Congressional Women's Softball Committee has already raised more than $300,000 this year for its annual softball game benefiting the Young Survivor Coalition, an organization that supports breast cancer survivors younger than the age of 40. "The players are united in the belief that no woman should have to face breast cancer alone," committee president Atalie Ebersole said.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has called it an "affront as the senior senator" from Florida after he was denied entry to survey a detention center for immigrant children in South Florida. Nelson was turned back Tuesday along with another Florida Democrat, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when they sought a firsthand look at living conditions at a temporary shelter in Homestead for unaccompanied children who had arrived in the country illegally.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a "cover-up" after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had hoped to survey living conditions. Nelson and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, both Florida Democrats, went to the contractor-run Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children following reports it was receiving detained migrant children who had arrived in the country illegally.
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. Calls are mounting on Capitol Hill for the Trump administration to end the separation of families at the southern border ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss legislation.
The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was arrested trying to fly to Pakistan last summer.
NORBERT RICHTER, an engineer whose business is the construction of ultra-light turbine helicopters, has a knack for getting innovative contraptions off the ground. That skill may prove handy as he attempts to gain altitude for a different sort of vehicle: a scheme to disrupt the shield of incumbency that makes it almost impossible to dislodge a sitting member of Congress.
The student organizers behind the "March for Our Lives" are planning a series of town hall this weekend and will use empty chairs to symbolize lawmakers who were invited but who don't attend. As of Friday morning, 33 Democratic lawmakers had pledged to take part in "The Town Halls for Our Lives" events in their home states.
T... . Teachers and school personnel celebrate after the state Senate approved a bill to increase state employee pay by 5 percent at the capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
Texas Democrats have turned o... . FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2017, file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
File - In this Jan. 20, 2016, file photo, Ali Muhammad Brown, of Seattle, is escorted into court in Newark, N.J. The prosecutor's office in Essex County, N.J., said Tuesday, March 6, 2018, that Brown... A man who prosecutors said wanted to avenge U.S. policy in the Middle East admits killing 4 in cross-country binge. . From left, kindergarten teacher Terra Triggs, first grade teacher Andrea Mason, kindergarten teacher Lisa Taylor, reading specialist Shelly Sexton, Brynn Triggs, Nikki Sexton relax and talk as they wait fo... West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says a tentative agreement has been reached to end a nine-day statewide teachers' strike by giving them the 5 percent raises he negotiated to end their walkout.
This is the new reality for candidates running in 2018, scared of email hacks and elaborate misinformation schemes like the ones Russia used to disrupt the 2016 campaign. And many candidates say they're concerned they can't rely on Congress or the White House for advice, or protection.
What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.. were babbling and belittling thousand-dollar bonuses and increased take-home pay for American workers.
Since President Donald Trump shocked the country with hisvictory in the 2016 election, Democrats have attacked Trump with the accusation that he - or at least his campaign - colluded with the Russian government's hacking of Democratic emails during the campaign. And yet, as 2017 draws to a close, none of the four investigations into Russian election meddling has turned up any evidence of collusion.
The House Intelligence Committee has at least two interviews scheduled Monday to kick off a packed week of witnesses in the panel's Russia probe. The committee is interviewing British music publicist Rob Goldstone, who arranged the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
OCTOBER 31: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks to reporters about Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the events that unfolded in Washington, DC after a press conference at the Broward Regional Health Planning Council about the Affordable Care Act on October 31, 2017 in Hollywood, Florida. Rep. Wasserman Shultz addressed the 2018 Open Enrollment period that begins tomorrow.