BREAKINGThe extraordinary move came after the former national security adviser had fought the case in court for months, a reversal after pleading guilty twice and cooperating with investigators.Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to investigators.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York TimesMay 7, 2020Updated 3:24 p.m. ETWASHINGTON…
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to drop its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, in a stunning development that comes after internal memos were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s late 2017 guilty plea of lying to the FBI.The announcement came in a court filing, with…
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo House leadership has reversed course and will not bring the chamber back into session next week. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) made the announcement Tuesday morning, citing advice from the Capitol physician and a continuing increase in coronavirus cases in the Washington, D.C. Area. "We made a judgment that we…
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…