After FBI chieftains targeted President Trump as a possible Russian agent in May 2017, they also reached out to an old informant, ex-British spy Christopher Steele, creator of the much-disputed election-year dossier, according to new congressional testimony.
A former congressional staffer filed a lawsuit last week saying she was raped by an employee at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and when she said she was taking legal action against the foundation she was fired by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
Senate Democrats said Wednesday that Attorney General nominee William P. Barr must give a firm commitment to release all of special counsel Robert Mueller’s eventual report to the public.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, said Wednesday attorney general nominee William Barr was unable to reassure him during a private meeting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe would be free from interference.
President Trump announced six new picks for federal district court seats Wednesday in what was his first slate of judicial nominees released since the start of the new Congress this year.
On a recent trip to Montreal, I was disturbed by a billboard that greeted me just outside the city’s main train station: an ad for Huawei, the “controversial” Chinese technology company.
President Trump is “dug in” and “resolute” on his side of the shutdown stalemate, according to Sen. John Kennedy.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen undercut Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s justification for delaying the State of the Union speech, saying Wednesday that her department can handle security for the event even amid a government shutdown.
Democrats’ attempt to undermine President Trump’s decisions on Russia sanctions went down to defeat in the Senate on Wednesday as they weren’t able to win over enough Republicans to overcome a GOP filibuster.
Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig polls to favor then-candidate Donald Trump before his presidential campaign and skipped out on paying most of the money he owed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Brad Parscale, President Trump's 2020 campaign manager, took aim at George Conway Wednesday night, saying he is a bad husband to Kellyanne Conway.
A 35-year-old computer engineer working on contract for Immigration and Customs Enforcement is accused of trying to lure a Florida girl to California to fulfill a "daddy-daughter" sex fantasy.
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The mayor of Gordon, Alabama, has been convicted of voter fraud and removed from office.
A Kansas City couple is suing the state of Missouri over restrictions on their ownership of loaded firearms.
A former government employee in northwestern Indiana has been convicted in a scheme to use funds from the City of Gary to buy more than 1,000 pieces of computer equipment that she then resold.
Gov.-elect Bill Lee says he'll continue to keep guns banned in the Tennessee Capitol when he takes over the top office later this week.
Human rights lawyers said Thursday they were mounting a court challenge to Indonesia's detention of three Papuan activists on charges of treason.
A Belarusian model who claimed last year that she had evidence of Russian involvement in helping elect Donald Trump president was deported from Thailand on Thursday, police said.
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the appointment of a special prosecutor to defend a ruling by the judge who refused to erase Arpaio's record after President Donald Trump pardoned his contempt of court conviction.
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The president's base that remains rock-solid as the partial government shutdown drags on for a fourth week.
