Former FBI Director James Comey has been criminally charged for the third time by the Justice Department, this time on accusations that he leaked a sensitive national security document.
Few details were available in the court filing, but Comey is accused of leaking the document when he was bureau director in October 2016.
The charges were filed against Comey Oct. 5, a decade after the alleged distribution of the document. Comey called the charges “an appalling abuse” of the DOJ’s power.
President Trump has made the threat of Democrats winning control of Congress the centerpiece of his final argument for the midterm elections.
The president claims Democrats will unleash a wave of violent crime, illegal immigration and higher taxes if they win control of Congress Nov. 3. He has been saying the message at campaign rallies in Florida, North Carolina and Montana over the past few weeks.
Although the strategy is a return to the issues that helped propel Trump to a win two years ago, the rhetoric also reflects the difficult political landscape Republicans face as voters sour on his handling of the economy and the high cost of living.
A new Justice Department report finds violent crime dropped by 25% last year, the largest single-year decline ever recorded.
The survey of 100,000 victim households found aggravated assaults fell 31%, robberies were down 27%, motor vehicle theft fell 29% and overall property crimes fell 19%.
All those are also records from the survey, which has been conducted for more than 50 years.
Army leaders say the service can no longer count on the sanctuary of bases inside the United States to project power abroad.
Major adversaries such as China and Russia are showing increasing willingness to strike American forces in the homeland, according to a recent roundtable between Army leaders and reporters.
Officials cited the growing threat as a driving factor behind the urgency of the Pentagon’s modernization push.
California’s proposed wealth tax is struggling to reach majority support.
It’s being battered by an opposition campaign and by liberals divided over whether a one-time levy is worth the loss of job creators and future revenue to other states.
The one-time, 5% tax on people worth more than $1 billion is known as Proposition 40. A broad coalition of opponents says the tax will hurt the state’s economy.
And finally … The U.S. military has banned electric vehicles manufactured by Chinese automaker BYD from a U.S. air base in Japan.
The Pentagon didn’t say which specific concern had prompted the move against vehicles produced by BYD, the largest global supplier of EVs.
The company had been added to a Pentagon blacklist of companies allegedly supporting China’s military in June.
Find all of today’s front page stories here or on the Washington Times app, and find us wherever you get your podcasts — just search “Washington Times" on your favorite podcast platforms.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.