CLOSE Insisting the criminal justice system won't be used for political ends, Attorney General William Barr says he doesn't expect a review into the Russia investigation origins to lead to criminal probes of Joe Biden or former President Barack Obama. (May 18) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – Allies of President Donald Trump are seizing upon newly declassified…
The wife of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is at the center of an investigation into whether a State Department employee was assigned to do household tasks.Susan Pompeo arriving in Addis Ababa, Ethopia, in February with her husband, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.Credit...Pool photo by Andrew Caballero-ReynoldsMay 19, 2020WASHINGTON — Susan Pompeo, the wife of…
A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released.During an April 2017 appearance on PBS News Hour, Rice was asked about the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump's transition team having been surveilled before he…
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume responded Tuesday to a newly declassified email by Susan Rice that states then-FBI Director James Comey suggested in January 2017 that President Barack Obama keep national security adviser designate Michael Flynn out of the loop on matters pertaining to Russia."It doesn't seem possible when you think about it," Hume told "Tucker Carlson Tonight," "because the incoming national…
Former FBI Director James Comey suggested to then-President Barack Obama in a January 2017 meeting that the National Security Council [NSC] might not want to pass "sensitive information related to Russia" to then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to a newly declassified email that Flynn's predecessor sent herself on Inauguration Day.The note from Susan…
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…