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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said on Friday that the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation produced “no credible evidence that would link President [Donald] Trump’s campaign to Russia in any form or fashion.” In March, Trump signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia. Comer said Trump’s order…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia, The Hill has reported. The memorandum calls for the declassification of “all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, who added that “we believe…
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The State Department told employees not to answer it. Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were told: Definitely reply. And in some parts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers received instructions to draft a response but not send it yet. After Elon Musk led a move to email all 2.3 million…
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The wreckage of a plane matching the description of one that went missing Thursday afternoon was found on sea ice in Alaska on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. None of the nine passengers or the pilot flying the single-engine turboprop plane. survived the apparent crash, the Coast Guard told the Anchorage Daily News. “Our thoughts…
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Senate Democrats will “do what they always do” while pushing back against the confirmation of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said on Newsmax Tuesday. “They’re going to show off,” the Kentucky Republican and author of the new book “All the President’s Money,” told Newsmax’s “Wake Up…
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Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, acknowledged Tuesday he is “not a perfect person” but was defiant in the face of multiple allegations surrounding his past conduct during a contentious confirmation hearing. Hegseth dismissed the allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017 as false and part of a “coordinated smear…
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A suspect who was “hell-bent” on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at a high rate of speed, leaving at least 15 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city…
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The US Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations and documents in what they labelled a ‘major cyber incident’. The US Treasury says Chinese hackers were able to steal documents in a major cyber attack in the early hours of Tuesday. The US executive agency, responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring Washington’s financial security…
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As one of the keys to his vow to bust the deadly fentanyl crisis in America, President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration. “I am pleased to nominate Sheriff Chad Chronister for administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA),” Trump wrote Saturday night on Truth…
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As he fills out his incoming administration, Donald Trump’s nominees have ranged from absolutely unqualified to ideological nightmares. But he might have just made his scariest hire yet. On Saturday night, Trump announced he’s selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel is one of Trump’s most loyal enforcers and a conspiracy theorist — a…
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Republican President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he wanted former National Security official and loyalist Kash Patel to lead the FBI, signaling an intent to drive out the bureau’s current director, Christopher Wray. Patel, who during Trump’s first term advised both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, has previously called for…
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The FBI is investigating an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump after a man armed with an AK-style rifle was spotted near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday. The Associated Press reported, citing three law enforcement sources, that the suspect has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh. Trump, who…
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The father of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old suspect being charged in the murder of four people at Apalachee High School, was arrested Thursday, law enforcement officials in Georgia said. Colin Gray, 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau…
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Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday night after a shooter opened fire at his campaign rally near Butler, Pa. Trump was injured in the attack and was quickly rushed offstage, but soon after declared in a statement he was “fine.” The suspected shooter was killed, as was a rally attendee. Two other attendees were critically injured,…
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A former FBI employee who raised questions about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol had his security clearance reinstated and was awarded 27 months of backpay after being suspended since February 2022, his lawyer told CNN. FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen had his security clearance suspended in 2022 when the FBI…
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