Ryan Dickey, a veteran cyber crime prosecutor, has joined special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators. A spokesman for the special counsel’s office confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that Dickey was assigned to Mueller’s investigation in early November from the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. The Washington Post first reported that…
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Thursday night that he wanted a “detailed explanation” from the White House about President Trump’s reported comments about accepting immigrants from “shithole countries.” “I look forward to getting a more detailed explanation regarding the President’s comments. Part of what makes America so special is that we welcome the best and…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is launching a massive overhaul of the department that would move tens of thousands of government employees to new locations across the country and reorganize the management of federal lands. “We’re looking at reshaping our current bureau-based regional system of management and moving to a system based on ecosystems, watersheds and…
The FBI plans to alert U.S. companies and the public about efforts by Russia or other nations to use disinformation and social media manipulation to interfere in upcoming elections, while being careful not to upset free speech and constitutional rights, a top law enforcement official said. The direction that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “foreign…
President Donald Trump in October promised to “liberate” Americans from the “scourge of addiction,” officially declaring a 90-day public health emergency that would urgently mobilize the federal government to tackle the opioid epidemic. That declaration runs out on Jan. 23, and beyond drawing more attention to the crisis, virtually nothing of consequence has been done.…
A massive new source of public-opinion research offers fresh insights into the fault lines emerging in Donald Trump’s foundation of support. Previously unpublished results from the nonpartisan online-polling firm SurveyMonkey show Trump losing ground over his tumultuous first year not only with the younger voters and white-collar whites who have always been skeptical of him,…
In an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers on Thursday, President Donald Trump described Haiti and African nations as “shithole” countries in slamming the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from those regions. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president said, sources told The Washington Post. The remarks were…
LONDON, Ontario (Reuters) – Canada is increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump will soon announce the United States intends to pull out of NAFTA, two government sources said on Wednesday, sending the Canadian and Mexican currencies lower and hurting stocks. The comments cast further doubt on prospects for talks to modernize the trilateral North American…
The White House intends to destroy voter data collected by the election fraud commission recently shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday night. White House Director of Information Technology Charles Herndon said in a declaration submitted to a federal court in Washington that officials plan to erase…
“Is America today in need of an unprecedented constitutional intervention?” George W. Bush’s ethics attorney, Richard Painter, and clinical psychologist Leanne Watt discuss the 25th Amendment and Trump’s mental health matters. Painter and Watt began their opinion piece for NBC News with a quick explanation of the 25th Amendment: The 25th Amendment is the ultimate…