Two Senate Republicans released a report on Wednesday detailing Joseph R. Biden’s alleged conflicts of interest tied to his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in countries where the former vice president was wielding considerable influence at the time. Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa released the anticipated report with less…
Those calls had largely gone unheeded by Republicans who control the Senate until they nabbed a foothold recently after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee voted to authorize more than three dozen subpoenas and depositions to compel testimony from former FBI Director James Comey and others. Trump lashed out at Comey, a frequent…
Congressional Republicans demanded answers on Friday as to whether there “was a widespread intentional effort” to wipe the mobile devices of multiple people on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during the Russia probe, and suggested this could amount to "anticipatory obstruction of justice."The calls come after newly released records from the Justice Department showed that…
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — President Trump on Monday basked in the adorning glow of the Republican National Convention and declared: “Success brings unity.” Mr. Trump coined the maxim shortly after the convention’s unanimous vote to nominate him for another four-year term, in effect completing the transformation of the GOP into the Party of Trump. He…
This year's Democratic National Convention is featuring several Republicans in an effort to show Joe Biden's appeal to both sides of the aisle.The event's first two nights saw a number of high-profile GOP figures who spoke favorably of the Democratic presidential candidate.RONNA MCDANIEL SAYS IT'S 'FRUSTRATING' TO SEE COLIN POWELL, NEVER-TRUMPERS 'EMBRACE SOCIALISM'"I know the measure…
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…