Category: Government

Former Secretary of State John Kerry is under fire over a report claiming that he has been engaged in “shadow diplomacy” with officials from Iran and Europe as part of a final attempt to save the seemingly doomed 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The Boston Globe reported Friday that Kerry sat down twice with Iranian Foreign Minister […]

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said on Friday that she planned to sign a measure that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, setting up the strictest limitations on abortion in the U.S. In a statement, Reynolds said she would sign the bill in her formal office in the Iowa state capitol. The legislation […]

President Trump admitted Thursday to reimbursing his lawyer for a $130,000 payment made on the eve of the 2016 election to porn actress Stormy Daniels as part of a settlement about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump. Trump, however, denied any sexual encounter and claims the payment was in no way connected with the […]

Glen Kopp, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said federal prosecutors have to jump through several hoops to get the Department of Justice and a federal judge to sign off on a wiretap. Kopp, who is now a partner in the New York office of the law firm Mayer Brown, said prosecutors […]

White House lawyer representing President Trump in the Russia investigation to retire at end of May. President Trump’s in-house lawyer representing him in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is set to leave this month — and will be replaced by an attorney who represented former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment fight, Fox News has […]

North Korea has released three US citizens who had been held prisoner by the communist dictatorship, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, citing a South Korean activist who lobbies for the release of detainees. The releases — which have not been confirmed by the State Department — would meet one of the Trump administration’s […]

President Trump said Tuesday the location and date of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be announced in the next “couple of days.” “We want to get peace,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re setting up meetings right now and I think it’s probably going to be announced over […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly assembled a list of close to 50 questions he wants to ask President Trump as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The New York Times reported Monday that it obtained a list of the questions, which include inquiries related to Trump’s business dealings, […]

Upward of 100 people from Central America who traveled north in a so-called “migrant caravan” to seek asylum in the United States are waking up on the Mexican side of the border this morning. Organizers of the group told ABC News that there are about 100 people sleeping outside a port of entry in San […]

Members of a migrant caravan have reached Tijuana, Mexico, where they were preparing for a Sunday showdown with American immigration officials. The administration of President Donald Trump has described the group as a threat, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan as “a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system.” Nearly […]

A Los Angeles Times investigation published Friday found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have repeatedly wrongly targeted and arrested U.S. citizens. Official figures provided to the Times show that the agency has released more than 1,480 people from custody since 2012 after investigating claims that they were U.S. citizens. ICE policy requires that a legal review […]

A top House Republican appears to be convincing some wary conservatives to support an overhaul of the food stamp program that’s included in the 2018 farm bill. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas) on Friday held a listening session on the legislation to talk about the provision that would expand work requirements and shift […]