Pence decries comparisons to Clintona s email use

Vice President Mike Pence scoffed at comparisons Friday of his use of a private AOL account while he was Indiana's governor - including emails about state business - and Hillary Clinton's embattled use of a private server as secretary of state that inspired cries of “lock her up” among Republicans. President Donald Trump, on the road touring a Florida Catholic school to stump for greater choice options in education, did not address the issue, but a White House spokesperson said Pence had the administration's support.

U.S. State Dept criticized over quiet release of human rights report

The U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights around the world on Friday but the release was overshadowed by criticism that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave the report little of the traditional attention or fanfare. Tillerson declined to unveil the report in person, breaking with precedent established during both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Mike Pence: My private emails are totally different from Hillary’s private emails

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Vice President Mike Pence defends his use of private email account as governor of Indiana

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What is Trump-Russia controversy about? Who all are involved? All your questions answered

US President Donald Trump arrives aboard Air Force One at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. Officials in the Donald Trump administration are being investigated ever since reports surfaced that Donald Trump's aides colluded with Russia to get ahead in the US Presidential Elections surfaced last year.

Inmate strangles Falkenburg prison guard with a towel

George W Bush praises Kimmel's 'damn good' anti-Trump Oscars monologue and laughs along as the comedian roasts The Donald Oregon judge is accused of helping illegal immigrant drunk driver ESCAPE from her courtroom while ICE agents waited outside to deport him to Mexico Bungling PWC accountants 'froze' when they realized their Best Picture Oscar mistake and waited a MINUTE before being PUSHED out onto the stage to fix it KATIE HOPKINS: The Swedish town where migrant gangs have killed multiculturalism stone dead and laugh at laws they despise and defy 'I recuse!' Attorney General Jeff Sessions removes himself from probe into Putin's election meddling in bid to save his job after lying about meetings with the Russian ambassador Now it's revealed that Jared met with the Russian ambassador, too - after getting smuggled into Trump Tower for a get-together with ex security advisor Mike Flynn 'A ... (more)

Trump’s Attorney General Wins Respite by Sitting Out Campaign Probes

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' sudden decision to recuse himself from election-related Russia probes eased some of the political pressure that was building around his two meetings with the Russian ambassador. But it came with a cost: the nation's top law enforcement officer now will be mostly sidelined on the agency's highest-profile, highest-stakes federal investigation, barely weeks into taking over the job.

Former prime minister John Howard on what won Donald Trump the US Presidency

These factors were not, for example, rust-belt unemployment, stagnating wages, inequality, fake news, xenophobia, or sexism against Mr Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, none of which rated a mention. "There were two things that were critical to Trump's success that I personally identify with very strongly," Mr Howard told a corporate audience at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch in Sydney on Friday.

Top Bush ethics lawyer: Russia could have blackmail on…

President George W. Bush's top ethics lawyer told Business Insider on Thursday that while it was "debatable" whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions perjured himself during his Senate confirmation hearing, he must resign. Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, added the latest Russia-related White House firestorm could leave Sessions open to the risk of "blackmailing."

Former Trump adviser at center of Russia firestorm wrote…

Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, wrote a letter to the Department of Justice on February 12 alleging Hillary Clinton's campaign committed "human rights abuses" and "hate crimes" against him during the 2016 election. "The actions by the Clinton regime and their associates may be among the most extreme examples of human rights violations observed during any election in US history since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was similarly targeted for his anti-war views in the 1960s," Page wrote in a letter addressed to "Members of the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section" of the Department of Justice.

Shea: What happened to our capacity for love and tolerance?

LESS THAN AN HOUR after Barack Obama was elected president for the first time, I was standing outside our former building at Broad and Callowhill streets and watched as hundreds of young people marched toward City Hall. They were black, brown and white, waving their cellphones, chanting and cheering Obama's victory.

Jonathan Capehart: To beat Trump, Democrats must stop fighting each other

One of the reasons I thought the Democratic Party was about to turn the page on the acrimony of the presidential primaries was because the two leading candidates to run the Democratic National Committee were speaking the same language. Not only that, the campaign waged by former labor secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was devoid of vitriol and personal attacks.

Timeline: What we know about the Trump campaign, his White House and Russia

Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and other former aides are in the hot seat for their interactions with Russia over the course of the presidential campaign, transition and new administration. So what do we know happened when? July 27: As the Republican nominee for president, Trump publicly calls on Russia to hack Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's private emails.

Rep defends criticism of congresswomen who wore white: ‘They looked silly’

Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer defended his comment Wednesday that the Democratic women who wore white to President Donald Trump's joint address were "poorly" dressed, telling CNN that they looked "silly" and that he didn't buy their argument that it was done in honor of the suffrage movement. The at-large congressman from North Dakota also reiterated that he hasn't ruled out a Senate bid next year for the seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, and he said Trump has already pledged his support should Cramer decide to run.