President Trump on Monday said he fired the State Department’s inspector general at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s request and it “should have been done a long time ago” because the official was a holdover from the Obama era. “I was happy to do it, Mike requested that I do it,” Mr. Trump said at…
Latest move against independent executive branch watchdogs who have found fault with Trump administration State department inspector General Linick was given notice of his dismissal late on Friday night. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The Trump administration has fired the state department’s inspector general who is reported to have been investigating the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…