Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday closed out his third and final day of hearings on Capitol Hill with several clashes with lawmakers as he dodged questions on invading Greenland, Ukraine aid, his use of the app Signal, and troop deployment in Los Angeles. Hegseth, in his first appearance before the House Armed Services Committee,...
A federal judge warned at a Thursday hearing that accepting the Trump administration’s assertion he has no authority to review the president’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles is a slippery slope. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said he hoped to rule later in the day on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) request to immediately...
Democratic Rep. John Mannion erupted at fellow New York Rep. Mike Lawler (R) on the House floor Thursday afternoon — with no shortage of f-bombs — in apparent outrage over Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-Calif.) incident with law enforcement earlier in the day. The blowup — some of which was picked up by the cameras in the...
President Trump’s top diplomat in Africa, Troy Fitrell, will retire from the State Department next month, and Jonathan Pratt, the Bureau of African Affairs deputy assistant secretary, will take his place. “After a long and distinguished career, the Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs Senior Bureau Official Ambassador Troy Fitrell is retiring in mid-July...
Democrats on Capitol Hill were furious Thursday after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was forcibly removed and handcuffed after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference in Los Angeles. After Padilla identified himself by his name and title, he pushed toward the front of a conference room trying to ask a...
A judge questioned the DOJ during a hearing Thursday about whether Trump followed the law when he activated the National Guard in response to recent anti-immigration enforcement protests and riots in Los Angeles.
The CIA has declassified 54 documents about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, revealing his collaboration with the agency and assessments that Sirhan Sirhan likely acted alone.
DOJ advises U.S. Attorney Offices to prepare for potential criminal investigations as thousands plan to join nationwide 'No Kings' protests against Trump administration policies on Saturday.
Ahead of the second New York City mayoral debate, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admits that he did see the report detailing the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to hold the Salvadoran government “accountable" for its alleged “collusion with the Trump administration."
