The United States has indicted Raul Castro for his role in shooting down planes flown by emigres in 1996. The decision to indict the aging Cuban dictator is morally right and strategically sound. It is another welcome move in the Trump administration’s campaign to reassert American power, especially in the Western Hemisphere. The Department of […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is among the speakers set to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The Israeli military launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Despite international pressure for a ceasefire and calls for a two-state solution, Netanyahu has stuck behind...
Troy A. Edwards, Jr., the son-in-law of James Comey, stepped down as the Justice Department's (DOJ) senior national security prosecutor Thursday after the former FBI director was indicted by a federal grand jury. “To uphold my oath to the Constitution and country, I hereby resign as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District...
A federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday, approving charges for a top foe of the White House just days after President Trump called for his prosecution. Comey was indicted on charges of making a false statement as well as another for obstruction of a congressional proceeding in connection with testimony he gave...
Washington is almost as bad about abusing truisms as farmers and sports announcers. And right now, the Washington equivalent of the black bands on a woolly bear caterpillar or “defense wins championships” is this old chestnut: “The party in control of Congress gets the blame for a government shutdown.” It looks like we are about...
President Trump weighed in on the indictment of James Comey early Friday, accusing his former FBI director of lying and said he left "zero" margin of error when he testified before Congress in 2020. “Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED! It is...
Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D) on Friday introduced the "Stop RFK's BS Act" which would reverse the funding cuts that have been carried out under Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s rule. The bill, according to its text provided first to The Hill, would immediately reinstate grants and awards that have...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, argued Thursday night that there is “very little chance” that former FBI Director James Comey will ever be convicted after being indicted by a federal grand jury hours earlier. “So the good news is, I think there's very little chance he could ever...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as a “disgraceful attack on the rule of law” and argued that the criminal justice system has been “viciously weaponized" by the Trump administration. “The indictment of James Comey is a disgraceful attack on the rule of law. Donald Trump...
Former FBI Director James Comey was hit with two federal charges late Thursday, days after President Trump ramped up pressure on his Justice Department to prosecute his most prominent adversaries. The counts stem from testimony Comey gave before the Senate in 2020 as it probed investigations into ties Trump’s 2016 campaign had with Russia, which...
