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U.S. Senate panel said to be probing Trump ex-aide Steve Bannon's campaign activities
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging investigation into former White House adviser Steve Bannon's activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, three sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. The committee is looking into what Bannon might know about any contacts during the ...
Key GOP senators slam Riyadh, vow action over Jamal Khashoggi debacle
An influential U.S. Senate ally of President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that Congress would take decisive action against Saudi Arabia over a missing writer, calling for the ouster of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "This guy is a wrecking ball. He had this guy murdered ...
A U.S. Senate staffer arrested this year over alleged leaks of classified information to his reporter girlfriend, pleaded guilty Monday to lying to FBI agents. The Justice Department said James Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, pleaded guilty to one count ...
GOP senators urge tough U.S. response over missing Saudi writer feared slain by Riyadh
Two leading Senate Republicans on Sunday threatened tough punitive action by Congress against Saudi Arabia, including a possible halt of military sales, if missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was indeed killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. As Saudi Arabia warned of possible economic retaliation of ...
Companies and media distance selves from Saudi kingdom over journalist's disappearance
As Saudi Arabia faces increasing international pressure to clarify what happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, British billionaire Richard Branson said on Thursday that his Virgin Group would suspend its discussions with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund over a planned $1 billion investment in ...
President Donald Trump defended continuing huge sales of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia on Thursday despite rising pressure from lawmakers to punish the kingdom over the disappearance of a Saudi journalist who lived in the United States and is now feared dead. As senators pushed ...
Trump calls allegations against his top court nominee a 'con game being played by the Democrats'
President Donald Trump, fighting to shore up his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in a divided U.S. Senate, on Tuesday called sexual misconduct allegations against the judge "a con game being played by the Democrats." In a break from convention, Senate ...
As confirmation fight gets nastier, Republicans begin digging in on Kavanaugh
The first allegation against Brett Kavanaugh left Republicans rattled and nervous. The second left them angry and ready to fight back. The GOP punched back hard Monday, seeming to cast aside — for now — worries that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee could turn ...
U.S. top court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces new accusation as Senate hearing set
The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing Thursday for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who says he sexually assaulted her as a teenager, as a claim of sexual misconduct emerged from another woman. The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday ...
U.S. Senate consideration of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become a Supreme Court justice should be put on hold until the FBI conducts an investigation into a California woman's allegations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump's nominee. Responding to a Washington Post report in which ...
For McCain, a cross-country farewell from public, presidents
Two former presidents are expected to speak at Sen. John McCain's service and he will lie in state in both the nation's capital and Arizona as part of a cross-country funeral procession ending with his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to plans ...
Over 300 U.S. newspapers hit back at Trump, defend free press
U.S. newspapers big and small hit back Thursday at Donald Trump's attacks on the news media with a coordinated campaign of editorials, triggering a fresh tirade from the president on Twitter. Leading the charge was The Boston Globe, which had called for the drive highlighting ...
