Tag: Todd Shepherd

"Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sen. Tom Cotton: Vladimir Putin causing US-Russia relations to tank

Todd Shepherd · August 6, 2017 3:54 pm

"I really do think we probably ought to turn our attention to the debt ceiling and funding the government and tax cuts until we can really get all the parties together," Johnson said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Ron Johnson: Put healthcare reform on back burner and focus on other legislative issues

Todd Shepherd · August 6, 2017 2:57 pm

Schiff suggested that McMaster is likely under fire from Russian social-media campaigns intended to sow discord within the administration. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Democrat Adam Schiff voices support for embattled H.R. McMaster

Todd Shepherd · August 6, 2017 2:00 pm

"I think Bob Mueller wanted a grand jury focused on this so he could issue subpoenas and then review the evidence. That's a typical thing to be done in any investigation," Chris Christie said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Chris Christie: Media overreacted to news of special counsel grand jury

Todd Shepherd · August 6, 2017 1:33 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Mueller team increasingly looking at Trump’s financials: Report

Todd Shepherd · August 3, 2017 9:12 pm

In May, McCabe told the Senate Intelligence Committee, "There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Top FBI officials told they might have to testify against Trump: Report

Todd Shepherd · August 3, 2017 7:02 pm

"It is jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out key information about how the Obama Justice Department tried to spin Loretta Lynch's scandalous meeting with Bill Clinton," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a press release. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Justice Department redacts talking points on Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting

Todd Shepherd · August 2, 2017 9:08 pm

Former FBI Director James Comey has signed a book deal, with publication expected in spring 2018. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

James Comey signs book deal, publication set for next spring

Todd Shepherd · August 2, 2017 4:01 pm

A number of the emails released today by Judicial Watch show emails that were or have been marked classified that were forwarded to Abedin's account. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Judicial Watch uses new Huma Abedin emails to press Trump Justice Department

Todd Shepherd · August 2, 2017 3:58 pm

Nadir Soofi is one of two suspects who drove from Phoenix to Garland, Texas, in a car loaded with numerous firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in May 2015, opening fire in a terrorist attack.

Garland Police keeping tight grip on documents two years after ISIS attack

Todd Shepherd · August 1, 2017 4:01 am

The report relied in part on a newly released memo by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in 2013 that said the lawmakers or staffers' names could be unmasked if an intelligence agency under the executive branch thought that "the identity of the Member of Congress or the Congressional staff is necessary to understand and assess the associated intelligence and further a lawful activity of the recipient agency[.]"

James Clapper eased rules on ‘unmasking’ procedures in 2013: Report

Todd Shepherd · July 31, 2017 9:59 pm

The report even found a small number of employees who had been fired for "willful failure to properly file their federal tax returns[.]" (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Richard Burr proposes bill to stop IRS from rehiring fired workers

Todd Shepherd · July 27, 2017 9:30 pm