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... said Friday. Brooks has been the NAACP's leader since 2014 but will not be kept on past June 30, the end of his current term. NAACP Board Chairman Leon W. Russell and Vice Chair Derrick Johnson will lead the organization until a new president is selected. Russell and Johnson ...
... him out of the country for more than a week. "We're very close to an FBI director," Trump said Thursday when asked about the search during an Oval Office appearance with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. He said an announcement could come "soon" and that former Sen. Joe Lieberman ...
... the interviews. The meetings came more than a week after Trump fired James Comey from his post as FBI director. Trump said Monday that the search for a successor to Comey was "moving rapidly." He also has said he could name a candidate by the end of the week, before ...
... Judiciary subcommittee investigating the Russian campaign interference. Comey, 56, was nominated by President Barack Obama for the FBI post in 2013 to a 10-year term, though that appointment does not ensure a director will serve the full term. Praised frequently by both parties for his independence and integrity, Comey ...
... initiatives in the near future, such as the promised infrastructure rebuilding, there are indications the White House intends to chart its own course as they search for the victories the president wants to turn his vision of making America great again into a reality. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm ...
... runaway because I ran away when I was a juvenile. So, it was still in their -- it's still in their system. WOMAN: The desperate search for missing teens in Washington, D.C. WOMAN: Outrage about missing children in the District. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: A spate of more recent cases in ...
... picks appear to have left his campaign — and perhaps his White House — vulnerable to the influence of foreign powers. At best, they expose the long-term implications of his understaffed and inexperienced campaign organization and undermine his promises to surround himself with top-notch talent. "Vetting new hires is standard ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, two Russian intelligence officers and two cyber hackers have been charged in a Yahoo data breach that compromised 500 million accounts. Also, the Federal Reserve announced that short-term interest rates are going up again, for the second time in three months. Chair Janet Yellen promised more rate increases to come...
Last week, Republicans unveiled a new health bill (and it’s going great, President Donald Trump says), women and Native Americans marched on Washington and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s fashion faux pas lit Twitter on fire. But there’s a great big world out there beyond the House, the Senate and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Here...
Novelist Jonathan Franzen shares an appreciation for Paula Fox, the adult and children's author whose work he brought back to light. Fox died last week at the age of 93.
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