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Chris Coons walks back talk of Russia-Trump collusion

Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, on Sunday walked back his bombshell declaration about transcripts showing Russia-Trump collusion, saying he had no proof such documents exist and apologizing for any "hyperventilating."

March 5, 2017

Chris Coons: FBI may possess transcripts showing ‘collusion’ between Trump campaign, Russia

Sen. Christopher Coons set the liberal Twitter world ablaze Friday night when he told MSNBC that the FBI has transcripts of intercepted calls that may spell out collusion between President Trump's campaign and top Russians, maybe even President Vladimir Putin.

March 4, 2017

Donald Trump rapped for inattention, lack of funding for Coast Guard: ‘Nonsensical’

President Trump's pledge Tuesday night in an address to Congress to rebuild the military did not include the armed services' fifth branch -- the U.S. Coast Guard.

March 2, 2017

Noncitizens lurking on Virginia voter rolls

When Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked the state's 133 local governments to provide numbers on noncitizens and jury pools, Loudoun County produced some hefty figures.

March 1, 2017

Homeland Security report undercutting Donald Trump’s travel ban drafted to be leaked to press

Trump administration officials believe that a Department of Homeland Security report that undercut the president's position on his travel ban was drafted with the express intent of leaking it to the press, a source close to the department says.

February 26, 2017

Coast Guard icebreakers in Arctic vital to U.S. access

Russian President Vladimir Putin not only is lurking in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but also is building up military forces in the expansive Arctic as the U.S. watches.

February 19, 2017

Nearly 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote

A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.

February 15, 2017

Army depicted Hillary Clinton as insider threat in cyber security training

The U.S. Army depicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an insider threat in a Powerpoint presentation to soldiers on cyber security.

February 15, 2017

Iran growing network to train foreign terrorists, dissident group says

Iran's hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime's largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington.

February 14, 2017

Noncitizen voters feud between academics resurfaces with fraud probe

A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections.

February 12, 2017

Obama appointees flee Pentagon, Trump left with scores of vacancies to fill

The Pentagon has been stripped of almost all of its political appointees from the Obama administration, but an uncertain Senate future awaits the candidates whom President Trump will nominate to remake the armed forces in his image.

February 8, 2017

Navy releases road map for diverse force protected against discrimination

The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a "diversity road map" that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on "gender identity" or "sex stereotyping."

February 5, 2017

Kellyanne Conway correctly spoke about Bowling Green Iraqi terrorists, misspoke on ‘massacre’

When senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway misspoke and described a terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it was a garbled reference to the fact that two Iraqi refugees who settled there turned out to be committed terrorists.

February 5, 2017

Central Command didn’t distort reports on ISIS war, Pentagon says

A Pentagon investigation into allegations that U.S. Central Command "cooked the books" in battlefield intelligence has concluded that no senior officials falsified reports or deliberately distorted them to make war progress against the Islamic State look better than it was.

February 1, 2017

Obama refugee vetting procedure enabled Iraqi terrorists to enter U.S.

Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab in 2012 was among the first Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. after President Obama lifted a six-month freeze on such entries as his aides tightened a shaky vetting process.

January 31, 2017

Donald Trump’s National Security Council reorganization copies previous GOP president

President Trump's reorganization of the National Security Council principals committee, and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is a duplicate of what George W. Bush did in February 2001 when he issued his NSC directive.

January 30, 2017

Voter fraud debate as divided as America is politically

President Trump's vow to investigate illegal voting in America has placed the spotlight on a handful of conservative groups that have fought voter fraud in the shadows of more prominent issues such as Obamacare and terrorism.

January 29, 2017

ISIS finds success infiltrating terrorists into refugee flows to West

The Islamic State has planned to infect refugee flows to the West with mass killers, and it has had some violent successes.

January 29, 2017

Nation’s ‘voting rolls are a mess,’ say longtime fraud watchdogs

President Trump's vow to investigate illegal voting in America has placed the spotlight on a handful of conservative groups that have fought voter fraud in the shadows of more prominent issues such as Obamacare and terrorism.

January 29, 2017

Hillary Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, bolsters Trump argument, study finds

Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.

January 26, 2017