Attorney General William Barr hopes to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, with redactions, “within a week,” he told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.... [Read Full Story]
Fleetwood Mac have postponed the final dates of a North American tour as Stevie Nicks recovers from the flu. Fleetwood Mac’s April 2 show in Boston, MA and April 3 appearance in Philadelphia, PA were cancelled on short notice last week and, now, The Toronto Star reports the group’s remaining four Canadian concerts – including Monday night’s show in Toronto – have also been put on hold.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the White House said on Monday. This comes just a day after the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the White House said on Monday. This comes just a day after the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, New York legislators introduced a bill that would amend the state law to permit the N.Y. Department of Taxation and Finance commissioner to release any state tax return of President Donald Trump’s that has been requested by the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation for any “specific and legitimate legislative purpose.” ... [Read Full Story]
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday.... [Read Full Story]
An American tourist who was kidnapped alongside her driver in a national park in southwestern Uganda has been rescued unharmed, the Ugandan military said on Sunday.... [Read Full Story]
Officials said on Thursday that the pilots of a Boeing 737 MAX jet followed the procedures for stopping a new anti-stall system, but they still couldn’t prevent last month’s crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet which killed 157 people. It was the second recent fatal crash of a 737 MAX. Ethiopia’s Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said “the crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to control the aircraft.” Ethiopian Airlines also said in a statement on Twitter Thursday that the pilots were in “full compliance with the emergency procedures.”... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio announced a presidential bid as he joined a diverse group of Democrats looking to take on President Trump in 2020. In his first television interview as a candidate, Ryan said during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” that he was a “progressive who knows how to talk to working-class people” and said he could win back Rust Belt states lost to President Trump in the 2016 election.... [Read Full Story]
In light of recent accusations of inappropriate behavior from multiple women, former Vice President Joe Biden said he will be more mindful of personal space — stopping short of offering an apology. In a video posted to his Twitter account, Biden, 76, said:... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report, while Democrats also put pressure the Justice Department to release the document without redactions.... [Read Full Story]
At least one person is dead and two injured in a chemical plant fire on the outskirts of Houston, officials said.... [Read Full Story]
Presidential candidate Julián Castro unveiled on Tuesday a proposal to change crossing the border without legal permission a civil violation instead of a misdemeanor crime in his first major policy platform. Castro posted his detailed immigration platform on the website Medium Tuesday morning and in a news release.... [Read Full Story]
Early on Monday, several U.S. airlines experienced system outages due to a technical glitch in a shared computer program, authorities said. The Aerodata program — which monitors balance and weight of flights — crashed for a short time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said several carriers were affected by the outage, including American, Delta, United, Southwest and Alaska Air. Dallas-based Southwest issued a ground stop order for a short time.... [Read Full Story]
The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week, seeking special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report. This comes as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release.... [Read Full Story]
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s plan to cut off aid to three Central American countries, adding that El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras could do more to curb the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.... [Read Full Story]
On Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden said he believed he had never acted inappropriately — this coming after allegations by a female activist who said that he made her feel uncomfortable by kissing her at a campaign event in 2014.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charged Facebook with allegedly encouraging, enabling and causing housing discrimination through its targeted advertising practices. HUD said that Facebook is violating the Fair Housing Act – federal legislation that prohibits discrimination against people seeking to buy or rent a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance or engaging in other housing-related activities.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected for the second time in three days a bid by gun rights activists to block the President’s new ban on “bump stock” attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos fought back after receiving criticism over her exchange on Capitol Hill about the Trump administration’s proposal to cut funding from the federal budget for Special Olympics.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh City Council gave initial approval to gun-control legislation introduced in the wake of 2018’s synagogue massacre. It is expected to be challenged in court by Second Amendment advocates who point out that state law doesn’t allow municipalities to regulate firearms.... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday, the Senate failed to advance the Green New Deal, the ambitious plan to combat climate change proposed by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after what Democrats said was a politically-motivated show vote.... [Read Full Story]
The House of Representatives failed to garner enough votes to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the resolution crafted to terminate his national emergency declaration to divert military funds and build a wall along the United States border with Mexico. Since Congress could not override Trump’s veto from earlier this month, which now means the national emergency declaration will go on as the White House has planned.... [Read Full Story]
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U.S. prosecutors from New York and California have charged President Donald Trump-critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said Avenatti was arrested Monday in New York.... [Read Full Story]
Attorney General William Barr said on Sunday that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s election team and Russia in the 2016 election. Barr said he had determined that Trump did not obstruct justice during the investigation.... [Read Full Story]
Officials said on Sunday that a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has died in what police are calling an apparent suicide. The student’s age, sex and name have not been released; however Coral Springs Police Department Public Information Officer Tyler Reik said the deceased was a juvenile and a current student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, Facebook said that an internal security review found the passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored on company servers without encryption, but that no passwords were leaked and the company has found no indication the sensitive data was improperly accessed.... [Read Full Story]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that they will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws. This comes in the immediate aftermath of last Friday’s shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, Ardern, which killed 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting.... [Read Full Story]
Ahead of his visit to Ohio, President Trump declared ISIS will be “gone by tonight,” in an announcement he made on the White House South Lawn.... [Read Full Story]
