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William Barr Testimony Updates: He Says Mueller Report Will Be Public ‘Within a Week’ – The New York Times
“This whole mechanism for the special counsel, as I said, was established during the Clinton administration in the wake of Ken Starr’s report,” Mr. Barr said. “That’s why the current rule says the report should be kept confidential, because there was a lot of reaction against the publication of Ken Starr’s report and many of the people who are right now calling for release of this report were basically castigating…
Barr’s tactic with the Mueller report: spin and delay – The Boston Globe
US Attorney General William Barr has some explaining to do. In the more than two weeks since Barr sent Congress his summary of the more than 400-page Mueller report it seems increasingly clear that the attorney general is doing political spadework for President Trump. In the process he’s needlessly sullied his reputation on behalf of an increasingly unhinged and chronically dishonest president. Not only did Barr endorse Trump’s “no collusion”…
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…
William Barr Testimony Updates: He Says Mueller Report Will Be Public ‘Within a Week’ – The New York Times
“This whole mechanism for the special counsel, as I said, was established during the Clinton administration in the wake of Ken Starr’s report,” Mr. Barr said. “That’s why the current rule says the report should be kept confidential, because there was a lot of reaction against the publication of Ken Starr’s report and many of the people who are right now calling for release of this report were basically castigating…
Barr’s tactic with the Mueller report: spin and delay – The Boston Globe
US Attorney General William Barr has some explaining to do. In the more than two weeks since Barr sent Congress his summary of the more than 400-page Mueller report it seems increasingly clear that the attorney general is doing political spadework for President Trump. In the process he’s needlessly sullied his reputation on behalf of an increasingly unhinged and chronically dishonest president. Not only did Barr endorse Trump’s “no collusion”…
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…
William Barr Testimony Updates: He Says Mueller Report Will Be Public ‘Within a Week’ – The New York Times
“This whole mechanism for the special counsel, as I said, was established during the Clinton administration in the wake of Ken Starr’s report,” Mr. Barr said. “That’s why the current rule says the report should be kept confidential, because there was a lot of reaction against the publication of Ken Starr’s report and many of the people who are right now calling for release of this report were basically castigating…
Barr’s tactic with the Mueller report: spin and delay – The Boston Globe
US Attorney General William Barr has some explaining to do. In the more than two weeks since Barr sent Congress his summary of the more than 400-page Mueller report it seems increasingly clear that the attorney general is doing political spadework for President Trump. In the process he’s needlessly sullied his reputation on behalf of an increasingly unhinged and chronically dishonest president. Not only did Barr endorse Trump’s “no collusion”…
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…
US threatens tariffs on $11 billion of European goods over Airbus subsidies – CNN
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Troubled Secret Service Faces New Leadership — Again – RealClearPolitics
The Secret Service, the once vaunted force charged with protecting the president, is again bracing for new leadership – the third director to helm the troubled agency in five years. The White House on Monday announced that Randolph “Tex” Alles would be stepping down amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security, where DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, effective April 10. Trump tapped James Murray, a career…
Trump circumvents lawmakers with yet another interim appointment – Washington Examiner
President Trump announced on Twitter yesterday that Kevin McAleenan will be taking over as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security following the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday. There’s one problem with this: It’s illegal. Federal law explicitly excludes the application of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to this situation. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck points out that under the law, the acting secretary of DHS…
Trump names James Murray as new Secret Service director – Washington Examiner
President Trump named James Murray as the new director of Secret Service, replacing Randolph “Tex” Alles, the White House said Monday. “United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles has done a great job at the agency over the last two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Mr. Alles will…
Court Blocks Trump Administration ‘Remain In Mexico’ Asylum Policy – NPR
Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP A federal judge in California blocked…
Europe slams latest US tariff threat as ‘greatly exaggerated’ – CNBC
<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Aerospace & Defense The EU has hit back at new U.S. proposals to target European goods with tariffs, following a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling over subsidies for Airbus. Trade tensions between the EU and U.S. flared Monday after the U.S. said it’s considering $11 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on a range of goods in response to illegal subsidies the EU granted to the…
Felicity Huffman, other parents agree to plead guilty in college admissions scandal – Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors said Gregory Abbott, chairman of a food and beverage packaging company, and his wife, Marcia Abbott, paid Singer $125,000 to inflate their daughter’s scores on college entrance exams. Singer’s alleged accomplice, 36-year-old Harvard graduate Mark Riddell, corrected their daughter’s answers on the SAT and later fixed her answers on two SAT subject tests.
Virginia vs. Texas Tech score: Cavaliers capture first national title in OT thriller over Red Raiders – CBS Sports
MINNEAPOLIS — One year after making history as the first ever No. 1 seed to fall to a No. 16, Virginia has broken through with its program’s first-ever national championship. If you ask Tony Bennett, the players on the team or any of the alums in the house in Minneapolis or across the country, I doubt anyone would have things play out any other way. Virginia’s 85-77 overtime win against…
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…
Court Blocks Trump Administration ‘Remain In Mexico’ Asylum Policy – NPR
Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP A federal judge in California blocked…
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…