Washington — Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to appear before the House Oversight Committee to testify as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, setting up a legal confrontation as the Republican-led panel threatens to hold them in contempt of Congress. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee’s chairman, said the panel will move
Several career prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced their resignations this week shortly after they learned there would be no civil rights probe into the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by a federal immigration agent, according to six sources briefed on the matter. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are
Washington — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX. The two states are among 27 that have enacted laws in recent
The U.S. government is revoking the legal status of several thousand immigrants from Somalia, raising the specter of deportation for a community often assailed by President Trump. A Department of Homeland Security official said the Trump administration had decided to terminate Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status program, which allows beneficiaries to live and work in the
Washington — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX. The two states are among 27 that have enacted laws in recent
A Republican congressman from Florida introduced a bill Monday to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state as President Trump threatens to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Mr. Trump has said the United States will take Greenland “one way or the other,” floating the idea of buying the territory or taking it by
London — The heads of 10 major central banks and global financial institutions threw their collective support behind U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying in a joint statement published Tuesday that it was “critical to preserve” the banks’ independence. U.S. prosecutors have opened an inquiry into Powell, prompting his rare rebuke against escalating pressure