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Ex-Trump adviser Flynn seeks immunity to testify in Russia probe

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has offered to testify before congressional committees probing ties between the Trump campaign and Russia but wants protection against “unfair prosecution,” his lawyer said on Thursday.

March 31, 2017

© Chris Kleponis, AFP | Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Adviser Designate speaks during a conference at the US Institute Of Peace in Washington DC, January 10, 2017.

Forcing transgender people into specific bathrooms was the best-known effect of HB2

North Carolina 'bathroom' law: Lawmakers pass repeal bill

March 30, 2017

Halt on Trump travel ban extended indefinitely by Hawaii judge

March 29, 2017

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March 29, 2017

Capitol Hill on lockdown after reports of shots fired

Congressional office buildings have been locked down after reports of gunfire.

March 29, 2017

March 28, 2017

Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change.

March 28, 2017

Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies

March 28, 2017

Democrats Ask Leader of House Russia Inquiry to Step Down

Top Democrats rebuked Representative Devin Nunes for his secret meeting on the White House grounds to review intelligence related to surveillance involving President Trump’s team.

March 28, 2017

Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California, at the Capitol on Friday. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

March 27, 2017

U.S. may cut funding to sanctuary cities, attorney general says

'Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offences puts whole communities at risk'

March 27, 2017

March 24, 2017

How disastrous is this for Trump?

How bad was Friday's defeat of the American Health Care Act in the House of Representatives? Bad. Very bad.

March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017

Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline

It wasn't immediately clear what, if anything, had changed since the State Department reached the opposite conclusion two years ago.

March 24, 2017

The Keystone Steele City pumping station, into which the planned Keystone XL pipeline is to

March 23, 2017

Trump Administration Orders Tougher Screening of Visa Applicants

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.

March 23, 2017

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, right, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed President Trump’s revised travel ban this month. Mr. Tillerson gave all American embassies orders last week instructing consular officials to broadly increase scrutin

March 23, 2017

McCain: Nunes’ action as intelligence committee chair ‘very disturbing’

I have not seen anything like it, and it’s very disturbing

March 23, 2017

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (Photos: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters, Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

March 23, 2017

Still no deal on Obamacare repeal after White House meeting

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."

March 23, 2017

March 22, 2017

‘I didn’t want the job, wife said I had to’ – US Secretary of State Tillerson

I didn’t want this job.

March 22, 2017

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) and his wife Renda Tillerson. © Win McNamee / Reuters

March 20, 2017

What to Watch: Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Confirmation Hearings

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.

March 20, 2017

Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, meeting last month on Capitol Hill with Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

March 16, 2017

Trump budget cuts immigration aid and local police are stunned

President Trump's proposed budget will slash funding for a number of popular federal programs and agencies. USA TODAY

March 16, 2017

March 16, 2017

Senate intelligence committee leaders: no wiretap of Trump Tower

no evidence

March 16, 2017

March 16, 2017

Moscow paid $45,000 for Flynn’s 2015 talk, documents show

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

March 16, 2017

Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)

March 15, 2017

Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban

This ruling means that travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees will be able to travel to the US.

March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017

No evidence Trump Tower wiretapped - House Intel Committee

There is the possibility that someone in Trump’s campaign was swept up in incidental collection by speaking with someone under surveillance

March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017

US indicts Russian FSB officers over 2014 Yahoo hack

The department has accused the four defendants of illegally accessing information about millions of subscribers from Yahoo, Google, and other webmail providers.

March 15, 2017