Washington — Attorney General Merrick Garland dismissed suggestions that he should have altered portions of former special counsel Robert Hur’s report about President Biden’s handling of classified records, saying the notion that he would censor Hur’s findings was “absurd.” “The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation
The judgment was formally registered in a New York county this month, records show. New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken initial steps in New York’s Westchester County to prepare to seize former President Donald Trump’s properties after a state judge ordered him to pay a $455 million fine in a civil fraud case.
Senate Republicans announced on March 21 a plan to push for the Laken Riley Act to be added to a $1.2 trillion government funding package that the upper chamber is expected to consider on March 22 to avert a shutdown. Laken Riley was a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was abducted and killed on Feb.
The U.S. Congress is expected to soon ban funding for the U.N. agency responsible for providing humanitarian aid to Gaza in the wake of allegations that employees of the agency participated in Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel. The funding ban for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is part of a
A GOP study committee has proposed staving off a looming 23 percent cut to Social Security benefits by program reforms, including raising the retirement age. A Republican task force made up of the biggest group of conservatives in the House has released a reform proposal to prevent cuts to Social Security benefits as the system
Special counsel Robert Hur described president as a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.’ President Joe Biden’s attorney general on March 21 defended himself against critics who were upset when he released a special counsel report on the president’s handling of classified documents without edits or redactions. Special counsel Robert Hur said in the
The congressman said he will invite the president to testify ‘in the coming days.’ The next impeachment witness on the list of House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is the biggest yet: President Joe Biden. Closing out a fiery March 20 hearing with two ex-associates of Hunter Biden, Mr. Comer noted that