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President Trump is preparing to pardon Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher and other members of armed forces accused of war crimes, according to a published report. In a sign he is considering making the pardons on or around Memorial Day, Trump asked the Justice Department to prepare the requisite paperwork, the New York Times reported Saturday. Gallagher, a special operations officer, is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly stabbing a…

Attorney General William Barr is speaking out publicly for the first time about selecting Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to head up an inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI. “I was looking for someone who is tenacious, who is used to looking at sensitive material involving government activities, who has a reputation for being fair and evenhanded,” Barr…

Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech to the graduating class of Taylor University on Saturday, although not everyone chose to stay for it. Dozens of students and faculty at the Indiana evangelical Christian college walked out in protest before Pence walked up to the podium, according to the Indianapolis Star. Most of the graduating class stayed for Pence’s speech and gave him a standing ovation. So it’s hard to…

Attorney General William Barr is speaking out publicly for the first time about selecting Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to head up an inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI. “I was looking for someone who is tenacious, who is used to looking at sensitive material involving government activities, who has a reputation for being fair and evenhanded,” Barr…

Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech to the graduating class of Taylor University on Saturday, although not everyone chose to stay for it. Dozens of students and faculty at the Indiana evangelical Christian college walked out in protest before Pence walked up to the podium, according to the Indianapolis Star. Most of the graduating class stayed for Pence’s speech and gave him a standing ovation. So it’s hard to…

Attorney General William Barr is speaking out publicly for the first time about selecting Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to head up an inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI. “I was looking for someone who is tenacious, who is used to looking at sensitive material involving government activities, who has a reputation for being fair and evenhanded,” Barr…

Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech to the graduating class of Taylor University on Saturday, although not everyone chose to stay for it. Dozens of students and faculty at the Indiana evangelical Christian college walked out in protest before Pence walked up to the podium, according to the Indianapolis Star. Most of the graduating class stayed for Pence’s speech and gave him a standing ovation. So it’s hard to…

Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden officially kicked off his 2020 campaign with a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania, birthplace of both himself and the Declaration of Independence, and home to his campaign headquarters. The former vice president used the speech to push his “unity” theme, hitting directly back at those who criticize his desire to reach across the aisle, as well as highlighting his links to Barack Obama. Many have argued…

Austria‘s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for fresh elections after his ruling coalition collapsed following an apparent video sting that forced his deputy to step down. In a statement on Saturday, Kurz said he would ask the country’s President Alexander Van der Bellen to hold a new vote “as soon as possible”. The call came hours after Heinz-Christian Strache, the vice chancellor and leader of the far-right Freedom…

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Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 18 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 18 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Australia’s ruling conservative coalition defied polls and scored a stunning political victory in the country’s general election on Saturday, with the main opposition party officially conceding the defeat. Opposition leader Bill Shorten called Prime Minister Scott Morrison to congratulate him on the election victory. He…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may not need Congress to go to war with Iran. That’s the case his lieutenants have been quietly building as tension between the two nations have escalated. The key elements involve drawing links between al Qaeda and Iran and casting Iran as a terrorist threat to the U.S. — which is exactly what administration officials have been doing in recent weeks. That could give Trump…

Recently resurfaced comments in which Joe Biden described the need to build a border fence and punish employers for hiring “illegals” are pure political gold for President Trump’s reelection efforts. When CNN dug up a video of Biden speaking hawkishly about immigration at a 2006 talk before a South Carolina rotary club, much of the focus was on how it could be used against him in the Democratic primary. But…

WeWork lost $1.9 billion last year, but it’s considering going… The We Company, parent company of WeWork, is the latest in a string of richly valued start-ups set to go public this year. It is valued at $47 billion, but like other newly… Technologyread more

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it could temporarily scale back restrictions on China’s Huawei Technologies, reported Reuters. The Commerce Department is considering issuing a temporary general license to “prevent the interruption of existing network operations and equipment,” reported Reuters citing a spokesperson. It came just two days after Huawei and its 70 affiliates were added by the U.S. to its “Entity List,” a move that bans the company…

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Nick Miroff Josh Dawsey May 18 at 12:10 AM An attempt by President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller to engineer a new shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security was blocked this week by Kevin McAleenan, the department’s acting secretary, who said he might leave his post unless the situation improved and he was given more control over his agency, administration officials said. The closed-door clash flared over the fate…

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg fired back at President Donald Trump’s recent comment about being “absolutely fine” with the mayor’s gay marriage, sarcastically saying “that’s nice” while pointing out the administration’s poor record on LGBT citizens. Buttigieg was on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday evening at an event labeled as a book club discussion about “Shortest Way Home,” which he released earlier this year. But it was his…

Video Lara Trump: The president has been talking about fixing our broken immigration system for so long 2020 Trump campaign senior adviser says the president’s new policy proposal sets out to give legal immigrants the best chance possible to succeed in America. Lara Trump, a senior campaign adviser for her father-in-law President Trump, told “America’s Newsroom” hosts she’s unbothered by a new poll showing Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and…

China is powering ahead of the US in the race for mega start-ups The surge of growth is a testament to a unique business environment, as well as a population more than three times larger than the U.S. At the same time, it bears all the… China Economyread more