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President Trump denied any attempt to obstruct an FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sunday, while lawmakers said the president's own comments raised new questions about him and the probe into Russians who interfered in last year's presidential election. During a weekend-long series of tweets following Flynn's guilty plea for lying to the FBI, Trump attacked the FBI in general and former director James Comey over different aspects of the Russia investigation, including Flynn's role.
The U.S. and South Korea on Dec. 4 kicked off their largest ever joint air exercise, an operation North Korea has labelled an "all-out provocation," days after Pyongyang fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. The five-day Vigilant Ace drill -- involving 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters, and tens of thousands of troops -- began Monday morning, Seoul's air force said.
Michael Kagan as a UNLV Professor of Law and Immigration Clinic Director shows off a handprint of a person helped by immigration lawyers as UNLV formally launches the Edward M. Bernstein and Associates Children's Rights Program on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. "I would like to encourage everybody who wants to be a part of something important and change somebody's life to be part of it," Claudia Noriega-Bernstein said.
Where did the idea for the story come from? The story was inspired by a small but nasty encounter I had with a person I met online. I was shocked by the way this person treated me, and then immediately surprised by my own shock.
Dee Rees plays video games three or four hours a day, trying to crack their codes. One recent afternoon, the director, whose new film is the mud-spattered saga "Mudbound," opened a laptop in her downtown pied-A -terre.
Sarah DeLappe's "The Wolves" takes teen-age girl talk to a soccer field at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. Three summers ago, the playwright Sarah DeLappe attended an exhibition at the New Museum called "Here and Elsewhere," which included graphic images from the Middle East.
This article appears in the print edition of the December 11, 2017, issue, with the headline "Can You Guess These New York City Elevators?" "Going past vacant lots filled with large Christmas trees, I have often wondered how people take them home," the artist behind this week's cover says.
On November 21, 1852, Louise Clappe, a New Englander who had spent a year at a gold-rush mining camp in the Sierra Nevada, looked around in awe as she took her leave of the place. In a letter to her sister, she wrote, "Like an immense concave of pure sapphire without spot or speck, the wonderful and never-enough-to-be-talked-about sky of California drops down upon the whole its fathomless splendor."
In the days before his leather-and-cowboy-hat look, Roy Moore was a West Point gymnast in the model of an earlier Roy Moore, "the father of American gymnastics." The most famous Roy Moore in history, through at least the mid-twentieth century, was likely a New Yorker named Roy E. Moore, often referred to as "the father of American gymnastics."
One of the most celebrated educational experiments in history was performed by James Mill, the British historian, on his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, who was born outside London in 1806. John began learning Greek when he was three, and read Herodotus and other historians and philosophers before commencing Latin, at the age of seven.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday said a preemptive war with North Korea is "becoming more likely" as the rogue country continues to develop its missile technology while increasing the threat for the West. Graham, who appeared on CBS News' "Face the Nation," said the Trump administration's policy on North Korea is not simply to "contain" the situation but rather to deny the North the capability to strike the U.S. Graham, meanwhile said the Pentagon should pull the families of American military personnel from South Korea.
President Donald Trump reportedly told confidants that a government shutdown would be advantageous politically and good for his message, according to The Washington Post. We will soon find out.
Donald Trump Attacks FBI For 'Destroying' Michael Flynn's Life By Prosecuting Him For Russia Lies And Asks Why 'Nothing Happened' To 'Crooked Hillary' In Late-Night Twitter Storm Michael Flynn's cooperation with the Russia probe seemed to unnerve President Donald Trump on Saturday night, and he lashed out at the FBI for 'destroying' the ex-adviser's life. 'So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton , on that now famous FBI holiday "interrogation" with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times and nothing happens to her?' Trump wrote.
President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Sunday on the credibility of his own FBI, responding to revelations that an FBI agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling because of anti-Trump text messages. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks towards Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., dismissed as "ridiculous" the idea among some Democrats of forcing a government shutdown if Congress doesn't resolve the issue of young undocumented immigrants facing possible deportation with the ending of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "There's not going to be a government shutdown.
Republicans are moving toward passing a two-week stopgap measure to avoid a looming government shutdown, but the path in the coming weeks is treacherous, with obstacles on both sides of the aisle as lawmakers push their own priorities, some unrelated to government spending. With government funding set to expire at the end of Friday, Republicans are aiming to buy more time so they can negotiate over a long-term spending package.
US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York on December 2, 2017. Trump is returning to Washington, DC after attending fundraisers in New York.
Rep. Dan Kildee, second from left, is angling for a spot on the Ways and Means Committee now that fellow Michigan Rep. Sander M. Levin, second from right, isn't seeking re-election in 2018. Also pictured, from left, Virginia Rep. Robert C. Scott and Michigan Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow.