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The House approved legislation Tuesday calling on the Trump administration to sanction Chinese officials over human rights violations involving the nation’s predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group. The House version of the bill, which passed in a 407-1 vote on Tuesday evening, amends an earlier Senate bill to place restrictions on the export of devices that could […]

Russia accused the U.S. of deliberately stalling the visa process for Kremlin officials, saying the delay could exacerbate existing international tensions, according to Reuters. The Russian Embassy in Washington said on Tuesday that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had not provided visas to Moscow treasury officials scheduled to attend an audit management conference in the […]

Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinPutin signs crackdown on foreign-sponsored journalists Kennedy doubles down on alleged Ukraine meddling amid criticism Schumer: Claim that Ukraine meddled in 2016 election ‘is a lie’ MORE on Monday signed into law a bill allowing Moscow to label individual journalists or bloggers as “foreign agents.” The new measure serves as an extension […]

The Dow Jones industrial average fell early Tuesday in response to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTop Democrat: ‘Obstruction of justice’ is ‘too clear not to include’ in impeachment probe Former US intel official says Trump would often push back in briefings Schiff says investigators seeking to identify who Giuliani spoke to on unlisted ‘-1’ number MORE’s remarks […]

Germany expelled two Russian diplomats on Wednesday after federal prosecutors alleged that an August killing of a Georgian national in Berlin was the handiwork of either Moscow or the Russian republic of Chechnya, Time magazine reported. On Aug. 23, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian man, was fatally shot in a Berlin park while he was on his way to a […]

MOVING….TO COURT? A top House Democrat on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that a decision to relocate Bureau of Land Management (BLM) staffers from Washington would decrease diversity and likely open the agency to discrimination lawsuits. In a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) warned that by failing to study how […]

The highest-ranked U.S. citizen on the FBI’s Most Wanted List has been charged with additional crimes, The Associated Press reported Monday. Jehad Serwan Mostafa, a former San Diego resident, has been charged with crimes connected to Somalia’s al-Shabaab extremist group. ADVERTISEMENT Mostafa, 37, was charged with similar crimes in 2009. According to a FBI poster, there is […]

A bipartisan group of House and Senate members on Wednesday introduced legislation that would allow new parents to pull forward child tax credits to finance a leave from work or pay for child-related expenses. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Sens. Bill CassidyWilliam (Bill) Morgan CassidyLawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to allow new parents […]

Industry groups are sounding the alarm on President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE’s proposal to hit $2.4 billion in French goods with tariffs, warning that the […]

President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE‘s personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiPoll: 46 percent of voters say Trump’s Ukraine dealings constitute impeachable offense GOP member urges Graham […]