Category: Government

President Trump’s pick to be a federal district judge in Alabama has written about paranormal activities, according to a new report. Brett Talley said he was part of the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group between 2009 and 2010, according to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire obtained by The Daily Beast. The group says on its website it is […]

President Donald Trump’s oldest son on Monday released a series of direct messages he received from the Twitter account behind the WikiLeaks website, including his responses to the communications. Donald Trump Jr.’s release of the messages on Twitter cames hours after The Atlantic first reported them. In the exchanges — some of them around the […]

Another woman has charged Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a teen, and top Republicans now threaten to expel Moore should he win Alabama’s special election on Dec. 12. In an emotional news conference, Beverly Young Nelson said Moore groped her and tried to force himself on her […]

Investigators are probing whether the former national security adviser and senior Turkish officials discussed abducting a U.S.-based cleric who is a rival of Erdogan; Catherine Herridge reports for ‘Special Report.’ Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and his son are reportedly being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller in connection with an alleged […]

President Donald Trump on Sunday openly entertained the possibility that he could become friends with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, even as he admitted it would be a strange thing if it were to happen. “I think anything is a possibility,” Trump said Sunday during a joint press conference with the president of Vietnam. […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is steadfastly denying that his country meddled in the 2016 White House race, President Trump told reporters Saturday. Trump and Putin briefly spoke several times while in Vietnam for a regional economic summit, as part of the U.S. president’s 12-day trip to Asia. “He said he didn’t meddle,” Trump afterward told […]

Andrea Jenkins became the first openly transgender woman of color to be elected to public office in the country after she won the Ward 8 seat of the Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday night. The Minneapolis Star Tribune confirmed her victory. Jenkins is also the first transgender person to be elected to any municipal office, and […]

US President Donald Trump has said that “hundreds more” would have died in a Texas church mass shooting if US gun laws were more stringent. He told reporters in Seoul that such measures would have “made no difference” in Sunday’s attack, which left 26 people dead and 20 injured. Gunman Devin Patrick Kelley was found […]

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday night released more than 200 pages of transcripts from its marathon interview of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, sprawling testimony that contained new details about the closely-scrutinized foreign policy aide’s relationship to Moscow. The at-times tense interview — which took place behind closed doors last week — also highlighted an […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller has amassed enough evidence to charge President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his son as part of his investigation into Russia interfering in the 2016 presidential election, NBC News reported on Sunday. Trump fired Flynn in February after just 24 days on the job when news reports revealed […]