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Wray testified Thursday that "there is no finer institution than the FBI, and no finer people than the men and women who work there and are its very beating heart." The comments come days after Trump took to Twitter to slam the FBI as a biased institution whose reputation is in "tatters."
China is more of a problem than a partner for the United States on dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, a leading Republican senator and ally of President Donald Trump told the Associated Press during a wide-ranging interview Thursday. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said China has been "lying for 25 years" about wanting to eliminate North Korea's nuclear capability.
Minnesota Democrat Al Franken, facing fresh allegations of sexual misconduct and vanishing support from fellow Democrats, appears on the brink of resigning from the Senate. Franken's office said he will make an announcement at 11:45 a.m. Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor.
Samantha Bee examined how misogyny in the media worked against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election after numerous powerful journalists face sexual harassment and misconduct allegations. On Full Frontal , Bee played a damning edit montage from the disgraced bunch – including Charlie Rose , Matt Lauer and Mark Halperin – where they disparaged, interrupted or condescended to Clinton, other women and a muppet.
The 2017 prize will be handed to ICAN, a global network which campaigned for a United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty, at an awards ceremony in Oslo this weekend. CND, along with other members of the ICAN-UK network, will host their own ceremony outside the Ministry of Defence to mark the prestigious award and raise awareness about the UN ban treaty.
The Chicago Transit Authority took the next major step in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's transformational Red and Purple Modernization Program by selecting three qualified contracting teams to develop proposals to design and build the first phase of the project, which will significantly modernize, improve and increase rail service in Chicago for decades to come. The first phase of RPM will rebuild four of the oldest Red Line stations and make them fully accessible to people with disabilities and completely reconstruct 1.3 miles of adjacent track structure.
Today, fifty-eight Members of Congress voted in support of articles of impeachment against President Trump in a floor vote led by Congressman Al Green . "Today's vote shows that momentum is building for the call for an impeachment investigation of President Trump," says John Bonifaz, the Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People.
Protestrs gathered across the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Middle Eastern countries on Thursday following President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capitol. The U.S. State Department warned citizens to use extra caution when traveling outside the country on Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel and move its embassy there from Tel Aviv, inflaming tensions in the Middle East.
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Two U.S. senators wrote to the Justice Department's inspector general on Wednesday requesting more information about the FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team over private text messages he allegedly sent during the election that were critical of President Donald Trump. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley asked the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, to answer a series of... WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains what have we learned after Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled his first two big actions in his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
In a boost for Democrats looking to expand the 2018 Senate midterm battlefield, former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen on Thursday said he is running for the seat opened by the retirement of Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
The nature of urban leadership is changing as the number of black mayors in the nation's big cities declines, a trend that risks diminishing prominent African-American voices in the public debate. In 2000, nine of the nation's 25 largest cities had black mayors.
FBI Director Chris Wray is poised to face a grilling from Republican lawmakers on Thursday morning at a time when the bureau is under mounting scrutiny from the right and outright attacks from the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up Houston's request for clarity on whether the legalization of same-sex marriage means the city must provide taxpayer-funded benefits to the spouses of its homosexual employees. As of now, Houston can continue to provide the benefits, unless the trial court blocks them again.
The calls for Franken's resignation came with less than a week to go until the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama, where Republican candidate Roy Moore has faced a string of allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls. John James Conyers Abortion-rights group endorses Nadler in race to replace Conyers on Judiciary Democrats turn on Al Franken Michigan state senator to run for Congress MORE Jr. , who resigned on Tuesday amid mounting pressure from colleagues.
Kihuen, who was considered a Democratic rising star before the allegations broke last week, has vowed not to resign, even in the face of pressure from Democratic leaders. If Kihuen stays in the race, he could give House Republicans an opening as the party scrambles to hang on to its majority in 2018.
Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency will be free to publicly discuss their work from now on, Scott Pruitt, the agency's administrator, has assured lawmakers who criticized the EPA for preventing employees from presenting findings about climate change. In a letter Monday to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Pruitt did not explain why the agency had canceled the presentations of two EPA scientists and one consultant who were scheduled to speak in Providence in October about the health of the Narragansett Bay, nor did he address whether the agency had acted improperly.
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken is set to make a statement Thursday about his future in office, following a raft of allegations he touched women inappropriately and dozens of his Democratic colleagues calling for him to step aside. "Senator Franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in D.C. tomorrow.
President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., declined to discuss with lawmakers on Wednesday a conversation he had with his father about emails related to a June 2016 meeting he attended with Trump associates and Russians.