Former Trump adviser Flynn to dismiss legal team-court filing
Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has dismissed the legal team that represented him in his dealings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and retained new counsel, according to a court filing on Thursday.
Let the most popular win: Oregon backs change in presidential voting
Lawmakers in Oregon passed legislation on Wednesday to award its seven Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide, rather than the candidate who gets the most votes in the state.
In Ohio, Republicans leaving nothing to chance in Trump re-election bid
Dozens of Republican activists, county chairs and volunteers gathered at Franklin University in Columbus last month for the state’s first-ever “Trump Victory Communication College.”
Trump administration moves to end U.S. research using fetal tissue from abortions
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it would end scientific research at the National Institutes of Health that relies on fetal tissue from elective abortions, and would accelerate efforts to find alternatives for such research, a move welcomed b…
Still no briefing for Senate intel panel on Mueller report: sources
The only committee of the U.S. Congress running a genuinely bipartisan probe of Russian meddling in U.S. politics has still had no word from the Trump administration on briefing the panel about the Mueller report’s counterintelligence findings, congres…
House Democrat says support lacking for Trump impeachment inquiry
A top U.S. House Democratic committee chairman on Wednesday appeared to rule out any imminent impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, but vowed quick court action to obtain the full, unredacted Mueller report on Russian election interference.
Explainer: How the U.S. Congress could challenge Trump tariffs on Mexico
If President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to impose across-the-board tariffs on Mexican goods entering the United States, the U.S. Congress will likely try to halt the action with legislation that would face formidable hurdles to enactmen…
Senior House Democrat says support lacking for formal Trump impeachment inquiry
The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday there did not appear to be support at the moment for a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Rus…
Trump administration will have to defend claim of deceit over census question
Plaintiffs suing the Trump administration over the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census have until July 12 to file briefs explaining why they believe the government should be sanctioned for allegedly concealing evidence, a federal jud…
Explainer: Impeachment is not a quick ‘bye, bye birdie’ – Pelosi
Impeachment of a U.S. president does not mean an immediate ouster from office, or as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it on Wednesday, a “bye, bye birdie.”
