Politics

State Department emails indicate Yovanovitch met with Burisma rep, despite testimony

State Department emails obtained by the conservative group Citizens United this week indicate that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was…

Senator Burr’s phone seized in U.S. probe of stock trades: LA Times

U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) listens to testimony during the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on…

President Trump to visit Pennsylvania amid battle over state’s coronavirus shutdown policies

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. President Trump plans to…

U.S. judge asks if ex-Trump aide Flynn should be held in contempt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday signaled reluctance to allow the Justice Department to drop its criminal prosecution…

Judge Sullivan appoints third party to ‘present arguments’ against Flynn, consider holding him in contempt

D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a head-turning order Wednesday that appointed a third party “to present arguments in opposition to the…

California moving university classes online as Fauci warns of reopening too soon

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s state university system, the largest in the United States, on Tuesday canceled classes on campus…

Grassley, Johnson request information on ‘unmasking,’ as Grenell, Barr weigh release of files

GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson requested information Wednesday on the “unmasking” of U.S. citizens by Obama administration officials during the…

Exclusive: Biden to hammer Trump’s ‘tough talk, weak action’ on China, top adviser says

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump has seized on Americans’ growing animosity toward China over the coronavirus outbreak to underpin his…

California Democrats say 10-year rent-relief plan ‘not a giveaway’

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. California Democrats on Tuesday proposed…

Pandemic complicates California election to replace U.S. House member who quit after sex scandal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats were trying to hold on to a hotly contested congressional seat in California on Tuesday in…