Dec 14 Trump attends Army-Navy football game with GOP allies, nominees and Daniel Penny By Noah Trister, Tara Copp, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump was huddling with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday's Army-Navy football game, taking in one of the most storied rivalries in college sports while spotlighting his emerging national security team. Continue reading
Dec 14 What does the FBI's director do? A former FBI counterterrorism expert explains By Javed Ali, The Conversation Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly half-century tenure at the agency harassing political dissidents and abusing his power. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch 10:58 Brooks and Marcus on Wray's resignation and what's next for the FBI By Amna Nawaz New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including FBI Director Christopher Wray’s announcement that he will be stepping down, what to expect from the FBI under… Continue watching
Dec 13 Daniel Penny will join Trump's suite at football game after being acquitted in NYC chokehold case By Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press Vice President-elect JD Vance said Penny, a military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this week, accepted his invitation to join Trump's suite at the Army-Navy football game on Saturday. Continue reading
Dec 13 IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes, braces for cuts under Trump and GOP majority By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press The collections included $1.3 billion from high-income taxpayers who did not pay overdue tax debts and $2.9 billion related to IRS Criminal Investigation work into crimes like drug trafficking and terrorist financing. Despite its gains, the future of the agency's… Continue reading
Dec 13 WATCH: DOJ holds briefing on $650M settlement with McKinsey for its role in opioid epidemic By Geoff Mulvihill, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in… Continue reading
Dec 13 Pelosi hospitalized on official trip to Luxembourg after she 'sustained an injury' By Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press Pelosi, 84, was in Europe with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Continue reading
Dec 13 What another Trump administration could mean for crypto By Kenichi Serino Bitcoin surpassed $100,000 for the second time ever on Wednesday, after hitting the milestone the first time in early December, a surge fueled by optimism that the Trump administration would be more friendly to the cryptocurrency industry. Continue reading
Dec 13 No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, Associated Press The report Thursday from the Justice Department inspector general’s office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events of Jan. 6, when rioters determined to overturn… Continue reading
Dec 13 Only 3 in 10 Americans highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military, AP-NORC poll says By Linley Sanders, Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Only about 3 in 10 are "extremely" or "very" confident that Trump will pick qualified people to serve in his administration. Continue reading