The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted twelve Russians for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The charges were announced by Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein Friday in Washington, D.C.
The twelve individuals identified in the indictment were all officers …
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Presidential son-in-law and top White House adviser Jared Kushner lacks the clearance necessary to view the nation’s most closely-guarded secrets. The revelation was reported by The Washington Post.
It is the latest development in a story that has drawn …
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An oversight hearing on FBI and DOJ actions ahead of the 2016 presidential election devolved into partisan bickering and political shouting matches on Capitol Hill yesterday. Testifying was FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Strzok, it was discovered in May of last …
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President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the forthcoming vacancy on the High Court left by the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan and has served for 31 years.
Although nominated by a Republican, …
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Conflicting messages have arisen from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s most recent visit to North Korea just concluded on Saturday. At the conclusion of the meetings, Pompeo told reporters that conversations he had with a high-ranking North Korean official were …
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Illegal border crossings were down 18% in June compared with May according to the Department of Homeland Security. The agency credits its zero-tolerance policy for the drop in migration numbers.
“Following the implementation of the Administration’s zero-tolerance policy, the …
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Embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt has resigned. President Donald Trump made the announcement on Twitter.
“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has …
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Scandals continue to plague Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Kevin Chmielewski, a former deputy chief of staff for operations at the EPA is expected to testify before Congress in coming weeks about “secret” calendars used to keep meetings that …
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Canada has responded to American tariffs on steel and aluminum imports by slapping $16.6 billion Canadian dollars, or about $12.5 billion U.S. dollars, worth of taxes on U.S. imports. The levies went into effect yesterday.
The U.S. has placed 25% …
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The Treasury Department has unveiled the 2019 IRS Form 1040 – the form many Americans use to file their taxes – and there is a peculiar twist to the new version: it’s the size of a postcard.
It is the …
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement. He will be leaving the High Court in July. The announcement was made yesterday in the public release of a letter he wrote to President Donald Trump.
“This letter is …
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory today upholding its travel ban against majority-Muslim countries. The decision was split 5-4, with the Court’s conservative-leaning justices voting to uphold the ban while its liberal-leaning justices voted to …
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Harley Davidson is about to be an unintended causality in the President’s growing trade war with the European Union. The company has announced it will be moving some of its iconic motorcycle production out of the U.S. in order to …
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President Trump has signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to reverse its policy separating young children crossing the U.S. border from their families. According to DHS, some 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and …
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A U.S. federal judge has ordered former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to jail while awaiting his trial scheduled to begin in September. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson revoked Manafort’s bail which had allowed him to live under house …
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced fines of over $1.4 billion against ZTE last week in an agreement that would allow the Chinese telecommunications giant to continue purchasing materials critical to its business from U.S. companies.
Under the terms of …
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President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un met for a momentous summit in Singapore yesterday. It was the first ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a leader of the isolated nation. The goal, President Trump said, was …
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