(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in Washington on Monday declined to order the dismissal of the Michael Flynn prosecution, permitting a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department's request to dismiss its case against the President Donald Trump's former national security adviser.
The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees from conducting the initial screening for people seeking asylum, dealing a setback to one of the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in asylum.
The nationwide injunction will likely have little, if any, immediate impact because the government...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden condemned recent riots while also blaming --- without providing evidence --- that President Donald Trump for fomenting the divide that's sparking it.
He dismissed his presidential opponent as incapable of tackling the violence himself.
“He doesn't want to shed light, he wants to generate heat, and he’s stoking violence...
(Associated Press) A federal appeals court panel on Monday again threw out a lawsuit by House Democrats to compel former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before a congressional committee.
In a 2-1 ruling, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that the House of Representatives...
(Headline USA) Oregon State Police will return to Portland to help local authorities after the fatal shooting of a man following clashes between President Donald Trump supporters and counter-protesters that led to an argument between the president and the city's mayor over who was to blame for the violence.
Protesters were...
(Headline USA) One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said.
It wasn’t clear if the shooting was linked to fights that broke out as a caravan of about...
(Headline USA) The nation’s top intelligence official has informed Congress that his office will no longer give in-person election security briefings on Capitol Hill, a move that raised concern among lawmakers Saturday about the public’s right to know about foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election.
President Donald Trump said National...
(Headline USA) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has hired a Kentucky teenager known for his viral encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial last year.
Nick Sandmann landed a paid position as grassroots director for McConnell's reelection effort in Kentucky, the senator's campaign said Friday.
Sandmann started...
(Headline USA) The Kenosha police union on Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers' perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake.
Blake had a knife and fought with officers, putting one of them in a headlock and shrugging off two attempts to stun...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) The chief victim of this week’s Republican National Convention is the Democrat Big Lie that President Donald J. Trump is a minority-and-immigrant-hating racist and xenophobe.
A parade of speakers of color and Americans with foreign accents turned this slander into a smoking, smoldering ruin.
“It is an...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump pardoned a woman on Friday who was a featured speaker on the final night of the Republican National Convention and had praised him as a compassionate leader.
Trump pardoned Alice Marie Johnson, who had spent more than two decades serving life without parole for a...
(Headline USA) A judge postponed a decision Friday on whether a 17-year-old should be returned to Wisconsin to face charges in the killing of two people on the streets of Kenosha during unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The Illinois judge granted Kyle Rittenhouse’s request to delay the extradition...