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An Austin teenager was killed and several others injured Monday when two packages left on doorsteps exploded, marking the second and third deadly package explosions in the Texas capital in two weeks. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the three incidents displayed enough similarities to lead police to investigate them together.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee called an end on Monday to their year-long investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, concluding that there was "no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians." The probe was ended over the objections of Democrats, who charged that key documents and testimony still have not been obtained.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will urge the European Union to lower its trade barriers, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday, calling them unfair to U.S. farmers and industry, a view rejected by the EU and challenged by a Republican senator. The European Commission accused Trump of"cherry-picking" data to distort the debate in a transatlantic dispute over U.S. metals tariffs that threatens to become a trade war.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that has enraged Democrats on the panel but is sure to please the White House. After a yearlong investigation, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway announced Monday that the committee has finished interviewing witnesses and will share the report with Democrats for the first time on Tuesday.
"Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might retire from the bench as early as this summer, a GOP senator said, and if true, President Trump would be able to nominate a justice who could tilt the nation's highest court well to the right [sic] for the foreseeable future. Kennedy, the 81-year-old swing vote appointed to the court by former President Ronald Reagan, has served on the bench for 29 years.
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'I wouldn't wipe my ass with it': Ex-CIA analyst rips House GOP intel committee's 'no collusion' report CNN's Phil Mudd on Monday had a remarkable reaction to the conclusion by Republicans members on the House Intelligence Committee that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump, telling Wolf Blitzer if the report was "written on toilet paper, I wouldn't stoop to wipe my ass with it." "Their responsibility was not to represent party, Democrat or Republican, but to represent people," Mudd said.
A judge on Monday urged federal law enforcement across the country to stop conducting stings in which undercover agents talk suspects into agreeing to steal non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses, saying they overwhelmingly target blacks, are deeply flawed and should become a relic of the past. Reading from his 73-page written ruling during a Chicago hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo questioned the overall fairness of the phony stash-house stings, which involve U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents posing as disgruntled Mexican cartel couriers who dangle the prospect of lucrative payouts to the would-be thieves.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
Rapper Juelz Santana will remain in federal custody pending a preliminary hearing on charges he attempted to carry a handgun aboard a plane leaving from Newark Liberty International Airport, a magistrate judge ruled Monday. Santana, a Totowa resident whose legal name is Laron James, appeared in court wearing a black long-sleeve T-shirt and sweatpants Monday afternoon, just hours after he was taken into custody by Port Authority police detectives.
Immigration has always made President Donald Trump a wee bit loony. No rational person would say the United States is hurt by accepting risk-takers from "shithole" countries, paint immigrants as violent criminals and claim Mexico is sending us its worst people.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, accompanied by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, responds to remarks made U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Sacramento. On the eve of President Donald Trump's first visit to California since taking office, the state's Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, is questioning Trump's decision to highlight prototypes for his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
President Donald Trump ran on rebuilding the nation's roads, rails and ports, a priority that members of both parties share. Yet no additional miles of highway, no new runways, no more miles of track will be built without a substantial infusion of federal money.
Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., spoke with passion about the farm bill and fruits and vegetables in recent remarks recorded in the Congressional Record. From March 6, with the heading "Passing a strong, bipartisan farm bill."
New revelations about a $130,000 payment to a porn star race a thicket for legal questions for President Trump, his lawyer and his campaign. Did the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels break the law? New revelations about a $130,000 payment to a porn star race a thicket for legal questions for President Trump, his lawyer and his campaign.
Donald Trump Jr. is in southwestern Pennsylvania trying to boost the Republican candidate to victory in Tuesday's special election for a U.S. House seat. Trump Jr. on Monday called Republican Rick Saccone someone who will help his father fight for jobs to come back from overseas.
More than 300 residents filled the Adult Recreation Center's auditorium for a presentation and discussion on the historic Armenian American Museum project developing in Glendale. The capacity crowd expressed its strong support for the Museum's mission, program, and location.
A pilot who survived when his helicopter went down in Manhattan's East River, killing five passengers, reported engine failure in an emergency radio transmission, it has emerged. He reported "an engine failure over the East River" and referenced a hotel, while the person at the other end of the transmission had trouble making out what the pilot was saying.
A pilot who survived when his helicopter went down in Manhattan's East River, killing five passengers, said in an emergency radio transmission that he had engine failure. The pilot is heard saying "Mayday, mayday, mayday" during the crash on Sunday night.
Yellow buoys that a New York police officer said are suspending a helicopter that crashed on the East River float next to a NYPD police boat at a pier in New York on Sunday, March 11, 2018. The helicopter crashed into New York City's East River Sunday night and flipped upside down in the water, killing at least a few people aboard and leaving some others in critical condition, officials said.