“We need candidates other than boring old white people”: House Republicans are betting on a group of diverse candidates with compelling biographies to help them reclaim lost seats.Representative Mike Garcia, Republican of California, was sworn into Congress on Tuesday.Credit...Al Drago for The New York TimesMay 19, 2020WASHINGTON — When Representative Mike Garcia of California was…
Behm, who is not a political appointee, was fired one day after Trump fired the State Department inspector general, a move which is now under investigation by House Democrats. In a statement, DOT said that the letter is "not factual," because Behm was never designated acting IG and therefore was not removed or fired from…
Washington (CNN)The State Department inspector general fired by President Donald Trump on Friday, Steve Linick, had nearly completed an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's decision to fast-track an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, accordi…
Samantha Power was “the largest unmasker of US persons in our country’s history,” then-Rep. Trey Gowdy said in October 2017, when he was interviewing her during the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe. As US ambassador to the United Nations, she made hundreds of “unmasking” requests during the final year of the Obama administration, although her…
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…