Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have written their own memo in response to a Republican memo detailing alleged abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department in administering the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
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Continue ReadingPresident Trump has arrived in Davos ahead of a speech he is expected to give to the World Economic Forum. The president is expected to outline a vision of how “America First” policies can complement a global-cooperation agenda.
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Continue ReadingThe president of Michigan State University Lou Anna Simon has announced she is resigning as a result of the scandal involving Larry Nassar, the medical doctor convicted of sexually abusing more than 150 women and young girls over a …
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump suggested that DACA recipients will be allowed to remain in the country and will ultimately be given a pathway to citizenship as a part of a broader immigration deal he expects to strike with Congress in the …
Continue ReadingThe billionaire Koch brothers are donating $4 million to a prison program aimed at improving re-imprisonment rates among former prisoners. The program is led by the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Dr. Carrie Pettus-Davis, an author and professor who …
Continue ReadingThe White House plans to reveal a framework for an immigration deal on Monday, it was announced today. “The President wants to lead on this issue and that’s exactly what we’ll do,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department is threatening twenty-three cities with subpoenas if they do not comply with a previous order asking for proof that they are not violating federal immigration law. The Justice Department is asking the localities to provide the …
Continue ReadingLarry Nassar, former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison today, for sexually abusing more than 150 women and girls over a period of two decades. Nassar had pleaded guilty to seven counts …
Continue ReadingAn FBI agent expressed skepticism that the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling would uncover any serious wrongdoing in a text message to another agent. “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, …
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday that Russia is ultimately responsible for the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons. “Russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims in Eastern Ghouta and countless other Syrians targeted with chemical weapons since …
Continue ReadingNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced lawsuits against eight pharmaceutical companies yesterday, accusing them of aiding and abetting an opioid crisis that has claimed 1,000 lives in New York City in 2016 alone. “Big Pharma helped to …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump signed an executive order imposing new tariffs on solar panels and washing machines yesterday in a move, the president said, will lead directly to American jobs. “You’re going to have people getting jobs again and we’re going to …
Continue ReadingSenator Chuck Schumer is withdrawing his offer to negotiate funding for a wall along the southern border as part of an immigration compromise, he said yesterday. “We’re going to have to start on a new basis and the wall offer …
Continue ReadingJPMorgan Chase has announced $20 billion in new spending directed at employee pay raises, as well as the hiring new employees. The company announced the investment was a direct result of the tax legislation passed last month by the …
Continue ReadingFormer FBI Director James Comey was questioned last year by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian meddling. The interviews with James Comey occurred last year and were hitherto undisclosed. The Justice Department confirmed this …
Continue ReadingThe Russian government has banned a film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin on the basis that it makes a mockery of the former leader’s death. “Many elderly people…will see it as an insulting derision of the Soviet past, of …
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago President Trump held a meeting at the White House with a bipartisan group of congressmen and women and asked them to come up with a deal on immigration. Democrats wanted a deal on DACA, Republicans …
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