Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice moved to drop its case against Flynn.
Republican National Convention organizers appear to have hit an impasse with the state of North Carolina over whether they will be required to practice social distancing at the party's nominating convention, scheduled to be held in Charlotte in late August.
Joe Biden is angry about President Donald Trump's tweet in response to protests in Minneapolis in connection with death of George Floyd in policy custody. "When the looting starts, the shooting starts," Trump wrote.
The Democrats said they plan to publicly release transcripts of their interviews "as quickly as possible." They also vowed to take "further public-facing steps" related to their probe.
Barack Obama cited the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery in a tweet calling the disparate treatment of racial minorities in the United States "maddeningly 'normal.'"
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the four Minneapolis officers involved in the death of George Floyd, saying this "horrifying" situation cannot happen again.
The executive order serves as a warning shot to social media platforms that Trump is willing to put them through costly litigation if he is unhappy with the content on their sites, just six months ahead of the 2020 election.
Trump was set to receive a briefing Thursday from Attorney General William Barr on the status of a federal investigation into the death of a black man in Minnesota whose violent arrest at the hands of a white officer has sparked calls for criminal charges.
Federal authorities unmasked a massive coronavirus scheme to sell a foreign government 50 million N95 face masks that didn't actually exist. That government wired $317 million to pay for the fictional masks
The coronavirus has pulled the future forward, forcing a changed perspective of national security, and now we must quickly adapt how we operate to reflect this reality, writes former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon.
Congressional admonishment of the Uber-GrubHub deal is just the latest in a groundswell of antitrust sentiment among lawmakers. Selected members of Congress are also rallying behind the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act, sweeping legislation that would outlaw most mergers and acquisitions until the COVID-19 pandemic ends, writes Peter Nesvold.
China's national security bill would impose the communist "criminal injustice system, directly on the people of Hong Kong," Sen. Pat Toomey told CNBC on Thursday. "It's pretty essential, I think, that we respond to that."
Twitter had added warning tags to two of Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots, inviting readers to "get the facts" and linking to a page calling the president's claims "unsubstantiated."
The United States accounts for more than 28% of Covid-19 deaths worldwide. President Donald Trump in January played down the risk of coronavirus in the country.