NATO said Wednesday it would expel eight Russian diplomats that it alleges were operating as “undeclared Russian intelligence officers,” in a sign strained relations between Moscow and Western powers continue to worsen. The alliance will also reduce from 20 to 10 the size of Moscow’s diplomatic representation in NATO’s …
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday night that an agreement to keep the government funded and prevent a government shutdown has been reached. “We have an agreement on the C.R. — the continuing resolution — to prevent a government shutdown, and we should be voting on that tomorrow morning,” …
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Las Vegas — In a court ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases, a federal judge in Nevada found that a criminal law that dates to 1929 and makes it a felony for a person who has been deported to return to the United States is unconstitutional. U.S. …
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Senate Democrats are lambasting the FBI and demanding answers after learning the bureau had received 4,500 tips about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that it had forwarded to the White House Counsel’s Office. According to a June 30 letter sent by FBI Assistant Director Jill Tyson to Democratic senators, the …
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to stop blocking constituents from following his personal Twitter account after a federal lawsuit argued the attorney general violated the First Amendment rights of Texans when he banned them from viewing his tweets, according to a federal court filing in Austin. In April, …
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Following in the steps of his reality TV star wife-turned-activist Kim Kardashian West, rapper Kanye West will be meeting with President Trump and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at the White House on Thursday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed to the White House TV pool that West …
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