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The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling. The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.
For those lately bereft of leadership, the past few days have provided both a respite and a reason for hope. It's likely that neither would prefer to be singled out as a woman who is brilliant but rather as a brilliant person who happens to be a woman.
Workers began filling in a tunnel containing radioactive waste collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington, the Department of Energy said Wednesday. On Tuesday, nearly 4,800 employees took shelter indoors for five hours after a 20-foot-by-20-foot section of 360-foot-long tunnel containing eight railcars filled with radioactive material caved in.
" Starting with Hillary Clinton herself, Democrats have blamed James Comey for her loss to President Donald Trump. And yet when Trump fired the FBI director Tuesday, those same Democrats rushed to defend his job.
FBI agents continued to reel Wednesday from Director James Comey's unceremonious dismissal a day earlier, their surprise at the manner of his ouster coupled with questions about who will next lead the bureau. Many agents working in field offices across the country learned about their director's firing in much the same way he did: from news reports that flashed on television screens and buzzed on phones.
Former coal executive Don Blankenship jumped back on Twitter on Wednesday, renewing his feud with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on the day Blankenship was to finish a one-year prison sentence arising from the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in decades. Even before the U.S. Bureau of Prisons listed Blankenship as leaving a halfway house in Arizona, the ex-Massey Energy CEO rattled off a series of tweets.
A timeline of events that led up to U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly firing FBI Director James Comey in the midst of the agency's investigation into whether Trump's presidential campaign was connected to Russian meddling in the election. WASHINGTON-A series of revelations has undercut Donald Trump's implausible explanation for his firing of FBI Director James Comey, suggesting the president was more interested in ridding himself of the person investigating his campaign's ties to Russia than standing up for government policy.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb's confirmation as Commissioner of Food and Drugs marks an opportunity for Congress and the public to determine whether he will be able to break the status quo at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or merely uphold it. Several near-term issues will affect FDA operations, staffing and other resources, potentially putting the agency chief in the position of having to educate and sometimes buck the White House if he is to pursue an agenda of change.
The YMCA recently received a $10,000 donation from the Masonic Fraternity of Oklahoma to support the Military Welcome Center at Will Rogers World Airport. More than 190,000 military personnel have used the center since it opened in 2007.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says former FBI Director Comey 'circumvented the chain of command' which ultimately led President Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey. Rough Cut .
To counter the Trump administration's aggressive deportation policy, a billionaire Miami healthcare mogul plans to spend the next couple of years raising - and spending - serious cash to defend unauthorized immigrants in court. a nonprofit political organization in coming days to aid existing groups that provide legal services to unauthorized immigrants facing removal from the U.S. "Immigrants are key to the fiber and the economic survival of our country," Fernandez said in an interview with the Miami Herald.
CNN's Jake Tapper said on Wednesday's edition of "The Lead" that a source told him that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey for two reasons: One was that the FBI probe was heating up and the other was the fact that Comey refused to pledge his personal loyalty to the president in the investigation. "The official White House version of what happened is that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein , fresh on the job, wrote a memo expressing concern about the way Comey had handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation," Tapper said.
In the world of political Washington, one of the most foreboding things that can happen to anyone is to have their boss say they're 100 percent behind them. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while avoiding normal duties.
The anger behind Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday had been building for months, but a turning point came when Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said. Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had wanted a heads-up from Comey about what he would say at a May 3 hearing about his handling of an investigation into former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
In late January, Emily Peterson was on her usual trail run around the stunning Marin Headlands, near San Francisco, when she was gripped by fear. Here she was, enjoying public lands at a time when the fate of public lands was very much up in the air.
The FBI's investigation into the Trump team's possible collusion with Russia is accelerating, and it's one of the reasons President Donald Trump fired James Comey, CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on Wednesday. "That's still not only an active investigation - it's actually accelerating," Tapper said on his show "The Lead," citing a source close to the former FBI director who was abruptly fired on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump defended his firing of FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, asserting in a flurry of tweets that both Democrats and Republicans "will be thanking me." Trump did not mention any effect the dismissal might have on FBI and congressional investigations into contacts between his 2016 election campaign and Russia.
U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy was all set to become a judge on the U.S. fourth circuit court of appeals - and that may still happen . But this week's bombshell decision by U.S. president Donald Trump to fire James Comey - director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - has propelled Gowdy to the top of the list of possible future leaders of our nation's top law enforcement agency.
WASHINGTON -- Assemblyman John McKeon, a 16-year veteran of the New Jersey legislature, was home over Easter weekend when his cell phone rang. The call was from Denny Heck, a Democratic U.S. representative from Washington state who is in charge of recruiting House Democratic candidates for 2018.