The State Department also urged its embassy officials to delay or reschedule interviews if an applicant was unable to provide all of the information demanded.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers who fail to support the Obamacare replacement health care bill will "pay a price at home."
In the hearings, if recent history is a guide, some of the sharpest questioning might come from Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, whose approach at the cabinet hearings produced several memorable moments.
Flynn’s trip has drawn criticism from some former national security officials as a case of bad judgment, at a minimum, given RT’s key role in promoting Russian government interests and working against the U.S. U.S. intelligence officials had been raising red flags about the issue for years
The department has accused the four defendants of illegally accessing information about millions of subscribers from Yahoo, Google, and other webmail providers.
A storm expected to drop more than a foot of snow pounded the Northeast on Tuesday, grounding flights, shutting schools and paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a remarkably mild February had lulled people into thinking the worst of winter was over