House Intel Committee votes to release Nunes memo on FBI The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines Monday to publicly release a classified memo written by Republicans alleging FBI abuses in the agency’s surveillance, an aggressive move that could feed a GOP push to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller’s […]
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Hillary Clinton makes Grammys cameo to mock Trump by reading ‘Fire and Fury’ Hillary Clinton surprised viewers by making an appearance in a pre-taped segment for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night — and she mocked President Trump in the process. “We know that our current president does […]
Sessions acknowledges missing FBI texts Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged Monday that the FBI’s information system failed to preserve five months of text messages between two bureau officials who had disparaged then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election. The discovery of the communications earlier this year prompted the removal of […]
California Dems propose surcharge on businesses to fund social programs Lawmakers from California have proposed a bill that would compel companies making more than $1 million to turn over half their tax-cut savings to the state in order to fund programs that support low-income and middle-class families. Assembly members Kevin […]
Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s powers to ban foreign travelers The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether President Trump’s responsibility to protect the nation grants him authority to ban travelers from specific countries and that it will rule by June in the case, a major examination […]
7 People Injured By Smoking, Flaming iPhone Battery An Apple store in Zurich had to be cleared on Tuesday after a customer’s iPhone 6s began smoking and eventually burning. The incident forced 50 shoppers and staff to evacuate the store, seven of whom received medical attention, according to CNN. An […]
Trump open to US-NKorea talks ‘under right circumstances’ President Donald Trump threw his weight behind the Olympics-inspired diplomatic opening with North Korea, telling South Korea’s leader Wednesday that the U.S. was open to talks with Kim Jong Un’s government under the right circumstances. A White House statement said Trump and […]
U.S. to Open Formal Inquiry on Americans Sickened in Cuba Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson is opening a formal inquiry into what the government has described as mysterious attacks in 2016 that sickened or injured 24 United States personnel who were stationed at the American Embassy in Cuba. But […]
Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies […]
WikiLeaks deleted a tweet linking to the full text of the explosive book about the Trump White House The radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks posted, and then quickly deleted, a tweet linking to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by author Michael Wolff. The book […]
