Month: October 2019

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was one of the drivers of the Trump administration’s now abandoned policy of separating migrant families at the southern border — a position he has since disavowed as “not worth” the ensuing public relations disaster — according to a new book on the Trump administration’s immigration policies. In their…

At a private luncheon in New York on Sept. 26, President Trump labeled a CIA employee turned whistleblower “almost a spy,” doubling down on assaults he’s launched against the nation’s intelligence employees since before he was inaugurated in 2017. The whistleblower’s chief concern, now backed up by at least one other colleague with direct knowledge,…

Washington (AFP) – A counter-terrorism analyst at the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly leaking top secret information to journalists, officials said. Henry Kyle Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Virginia, was taken into custody when he arrived at work and faces two counts of revealing classified defense information, they said. “Frese…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president insisted Thursday that he faced “no blackmail” from President Donald Trump in their phone call that helped spark an impeachment inquiry, distancing himself from the U.S. political drama and trying to claw back his own credibility. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said for the first time that his country will “happily” investigate…

As soon as Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Sept. 24 that House Democrats would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, the president and his supporters started to put forth a slew of questionable arguments against it. Whereas Democrats see Trump’s July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he solicited an…

The 360 shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories. What’s happening: On Wednesday, Turkey announced it had begun a military operation into parts of northeastern Syria currently held by the Kurds. The move came a few days after President Trump announced that American troops in the area would be withdrawn to allow the Turkish incursion to move…

If Democrats were hoping for some shocking moment of revelation in Robert Mueller’s testimony yesterday — if they thought that maybe he’d plunk down a secret tape recording of President Trump and Vladimir Putin working out the Electoral College math for 2020, or that maybe Mueller would lift up his sleeves to display the tire…

The State Department waited until 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday to tell U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland not to show up for his scheduled deposition with three House committees later that morning, the ambassador’s lawyer told Yahoo News. Robert Luskin, Sondland’s attorney, said he got the extraordinary middle-of-the-night directive in a phone call from a State Department…

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court said it will keep a Second Amendment showdown on its argument calendar, even after New York City loosened the gun-transportation restrictions at the center of the fight. The justices rejected the city’s request to dismiss a challenge to the rules as moot, though the court said in a two-sentence…

When we talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, there should be no ambiguity in what the word “all” means. That word means that all people — people of all races, genders, religious backgrounds, sexual orientations — are entitled to lead lives in which they can take pride in their work, fall…