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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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McCain is entitled to decry Trump's terse phone call with Australia, but not to act as though he is the president. Australia is one of America's closest allies in the world.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Thursday he had spoken candidly and frankly with U.S. President Donald Trump, but would not confirm a Washington Post report that Trump had berated him over a refugee swap deal and cut the call short. The Post report said Trump had described the call with the leader of Australia, one of the United States' staunchest allies, as "the worst so far."
Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee confirmation hearing to be next Secretary of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Senate Democrats, labor unions and civil rights groups voiced their opposition to President Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos for Seccretary of Education in a joint letter expected to be delivered to U.S. senators Monday, according to the Washington Post .
A student walks past a colorful mural at Luke C. Moore Academy High School in Washington, D.C., in Dec. 2016. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser had just a few minutes to speak to hundreds of thousands of people at the Women's March on Washington.
He hosted his first meeting with a foreign leader, British Prime Minister Theresa May, touting the U.S.'s "special relationship" with that country. He reached a dA tente of sorts with Mexico, after enraging America's southern neighbor with talk of border walls and import taxes.
Marisa Winegar, of Carbondale, poses for a photo Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at Republican U.S. Representative Mike Bost's office in Carbondale. Winegar said she read in The Washington Post that repealing the Affordable Care Act would kill more than 43,000 people each year.
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The story of how Canada wound up owning one of the best places to throw a party in Washington. D.C. - where crowds will converge Friday as they always do for presidential inaugurations - begins, fittingly, with a presidential inauguration.
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In late November of last year, I argued that Elaine Chao is an "uninspired choice" for Secretary of Transportation. Today, in its story about Chao's confirmation hearing, the Washington Post quotes generously from that post.
More than a few of my Washington allies noticed a seemingly unremarkable bit of news in a Monday Washington Post article that they thought I ought to see. The article concerned Jared Kushner's appointment as adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.