The Department of Justice has recovered missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the DOJ’s inspector general said Thursday.
Text messages from a critical five-month period between Trump-bashing FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who both served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, have been located, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has told Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Senate lawmakers held a hearing Thursday trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong when a false ballistic missile alert was sent by authorities in Hawaii, fueling widespread public panic.
Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback resigned Thursday after the Senate confirmed him as the Trump’s administration’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
Iran’s launching of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles has moderated over the past year, though it continues robust testing and developing of its program, particularly since signing the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, according to a detailed report on its missile activity obtained by Fox.
Republicans appear to be proceeding with the release of a much-hyped memo that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuse -- despite Justice Department officials describing such a move as “extraordinarily reckless.”
President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May talked up the relationship between the two countries Thursday, amid reports that the ties between the two leaders have become strained in recent months.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly tried to meddle in Middle East peace talks, allegedly telling a close associate of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to “yield to President Trump’s demands.”
The White House has jumped into immigration negotiations on Capitol Hill, in an apparent bid to move the needle after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer revoked his offer to help fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
For Democrats, it may be another inconvenient truth. Former Vice President Al Gore, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, defended President Donald Trump’s recent decision to impose tariffs on solar cells and modules.
A second member of the Conyers family has filed papers in Michigan to seek the U.S. House seat recently vacated by longtime Democratic lawmaker John Conyers.
About 75 immigrant activists on Tuesday protested in front of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home to denounce the deal to end the government shutdown without protections for young immigrants.