The White House on Wednesday declassified information claiming the FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was acting as an asset for Russia when he fired FBI Director James Comey, a theory an administration official said was not backed up by evidence. The official said the investigation, known as Oxferd Comma, was a subcomponent…
The names of three people killed by a gunman who opened fire Saturday at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, were released by authorities Tuesday. Twin Falls police officially identified the victims as 23-year-old Ashley Garibay, of Stockton, California, 66-year-old Dale Schultz of Salt Lake City, Utah, and 59-year-old Christopher Claunch, of Hagerman, Idaho….
Washington — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general to the Senate floor, clearing a key hurdle for President Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department. The GOP-led panel voted 12-10 along party lines to advance Blanche’s nomination. The acting attorney general overcame skepticism from Republican Sens. John Cornyn…
KARACHI: Police have yet to register a case and make arrests regarding a clash between two groups of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan at their party headquarters in Bahadurabad, in which a man suffered bullet wounds. On Sunday evening, police said that supporters of the Mustafa Kamal-Anis Qaimkhani group had allegedly beaten and thrown out their…
The PML-N has bagged 14 seats while the PPP has managed to secure just four of the total 18 seats that were up for grabs in the second phase of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) election on Sunday, according to unofficial results released by the Election Commission. Polling was postponed until Tuesday on two seats…
A day after an officer shot and killed a man in Madison, Wisconsin, police say the man had fled from officers, then pulled a fixed-blade knife, injuring one officer, who tried a taser before firing three shots. Protests developed almost immediately, and on Thursday, demonstrators took the microphone in a police press conference. Jonah Kaplan…
Washington — The rapid pace at which the U.S. is expending some of its most advanced air-defense interceptors and precision-guided weapons in the Middle East is a point of great tension inside the Trump administration as President Trump’s war with Iran ratchets up again, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials familiar with internal assessments….
Washington — The former U.S. attorney in Seattle who was fired from his post soon after federal judges in the area installed him in the role has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that his removal was unlawful. Roger Rogoff is asking the federal district court in Seattle to void his firing last…
“My life is just an ordinary life where I’ve been given responsibility, and I do my best to live up to it,” said Judge Ronald Gould. For someone living an “ordinary life,” Gould has wielded more power, and surmounted more adversity, than most. He’s a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in…
One person was killed and 16 others wounded in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv that included ballistic missiles, local authorities said. The attack began at around 1:30 a.m. local time and continued for several hours, with explosions echoing across the capital. Russia launched 41 missiles and 125 attack drones across Ukraine overnight, according to…
