The White House has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a travel ban on people from majority Muslim countries. The ban has been blocked by lower courts which have said that it is discriminatory. Two emergency applications have now been filed by the government with the court’s nine justices that seek to overturn those … Read more
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its controversial ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts. In its filing, the government asked the highest court in the land to rule on the legal standing of Trump’s order, appealing a ruling by … Read more
Former FBI director James Comey will testify on June 8 before a congressional panel probing allegations of Russian interference in last year’s US election, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday. Comey was fired by President Donald Trump early last month as the FBI’s own Russia probe increasingly focused on possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and … Read more
Hillary Clinton went a step further Wednesday in blaming her election loss to Donald Trump on Russian cyberattacks, saying Americans including associates of the Republican president likely had a hand in the effort. The Democratic nominee in last year’s bitterly fought White House race addressed a technology conference in California, speaking at length about what … Read more
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen will be subpoenaed to testify in the Russian political meddling investigation by the House Intelligence committee, the panel announced Wednesday. The committee said it had approved subpoenas for Cohen and for Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn to appear before them and supply documents. While Flynn has … Read more
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that former FBI Director James Comey would have been “incredibly incompetent” if he took actions based on email he knew to be fake. Graham said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Comey told the Senate and House select committees on intelligence about such an email, but … Read more
Chicago on Friday was bracing for the Memorial Day weekend by deploying an extra 1,300 police officers, hoping to prevent a repeat of last year’s deadly street violence. The three-day weekend in the murder-plagued Midwestern city ended with 71 people shot and six killed last year. It came in a year in which Chicago experienced … Read more
Three Nigerian internet fraudsters who befriended many of their victims on dating sites have been handed down huge sentences by a Mississippi court after making tens of millions of dollars from their schemes. Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison; Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, was given 115 years and Femi Alexander … Read more
President Donald Trump arrived at NATO headquarters here Thursday under a cloud of suspicion about the security of foreign intelligence shared with the United States, a controversy he tried to head off by vowing to end leaks of secret information. Trump was due to face an incensed British Prime Minister Theresa May, who plans to … Read more
Former US senator Joe Lieberman withdrew from consideration as FBI director Thursday after President Donald Trump chose a lawyer from the same law firm where Lieberman worked to advise him on the deepening Russia scandal. As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lieberman would have overseen the investigation into potential Trump campaign links to … Read more
Subpoenas are flying, a special prosecutor is taking the reins, and explosive revelations hit the press almost daily: the investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia is heating up. With Trump reported to have retained a personal lawyer to represent him, here is where the sprawling probe into alleged Russian interference … Read more
Former CIA director John Brennan said Tuesday he became increasingly concerned last summer over contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign officials and Moscow, as a Russian effort to interfere with the US presidential election became evident. Brennan’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee gave a much clearer view of how seriously US intelligence took the Russian … Read more
US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday sidestepped questions about an explosive report which said President Donald Trump pressured him to help push back against the probe into Russian ties with his campaign. But amid controversy over Trump’s alleged spilling of US intelligence information to Russia’s foreign minister, Coats also strongly condemned leaks … Read more
On the first stop of his inaugural foreign trip, President Donald Trump signed his name Saturday to a nearly $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia effective immediately — plus another $350 billion over the next 10 years. The White House trumpeted the agreement as a “significant expansion” of the two nation’s “security relationship” that … Read more
Robert Mueller, named Wednesday to take over the US probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, has a reputation as a tough lawman who once even stood up to a president. Mueller, a Vietnam war vet who served as director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013, is described as enjoying seamless respect from … Read more
The US Department of Justice Wednesday named a former head of the FBI as special counsel to lead the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and possible collusion with Donald Trump’s team. The US president stands accused of seeking to stall the politically-explosive probe following his shock dismissal of the FBI chief James … Read more
President Donald Trump stepped up the search Monday for a new FBI director after his abrupt firing of James Comey, but Democrats are threatening to throw up roadblocks unless a special prosecutor is named to probe team Trump’s ties to Russia. Trump has said he wants to move swiftly on replacing Comey, whose shock dismissal … Read more
A judge on Monday has ordered an Uber engineer at the center of a self-driving car trade secrets suit sidelined and files taken from Alphabet-owned Waymo returned. A partial injunction issued by US District Court Judge William Alsup, the text of which was released Monday, fell short of the compete shut-down of Uber’s self-driving car … Read more
Democrats kept up the pressure on Donald Trump Sunday over his firing of FBI director James Comey, as members of both parties said the president must turn over any secret recordings of the two men’s conversations. Trump tweeted Friday that “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts … Read more
Isolated and agitated, Trump rattles White House from within A buoyant President Donald Trump reemerged into public for the first time in more than a week on Friday, offering few signs of the malaise that has gripped his administration since the hasty dismissal of FBI Director James Comey. “It’s such an honor to be here,” … Read more