• Texas Democrat Wendy Davis is running for Congress in 2020

    Texas Democrat Wendy Davis is running for Congress in 2020

    Jul 22, 2019 01:21 PM EST

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrat Wendy Davis announced Monday that she will run for Congress in 2020, five years after badly losing a run for governor that was propelled by her 13-hour filibuster of an anti-abortion bill in the state Capitol. Davis will challenge freshman Republican Rep. Chip ...

  • Tens of thousands protest army rule in Sudan

    Tens of thousands protest army rule in Sudan

    Jun 30, 2019 03:53 PM EST

    ... protest organization, told The Associated Press that security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters in Omdurman and the district of Bahri in the capital. https://twitter.com/YousraElbagir/status/1145337657440034816 https://twitter.com/samirasawlani/status/1145314312820547584 He said protests also erupted in Atbara, a railway city north of the ...

  • Democrats push new strategy for enforcing Russia subpoenas

    Democrats push new strategy for enforcing Russia subpoenas

    Jun 11, 2019 04:24 PM EST

    Democrats are ramping up action related to Mueller's probe into Russia election meddling as they try to focus more public attention on the report, released in redacted form in April . Mueller wrote that there was not enough evidence to establish that there was a conspiracy between Trump's 2016 ...

  • U.S. and Russia blame each other in near-collision of warships

    U.S. and Russia blame each other in near-collision of warships

    Jun 07, 2019 01:31 PM EST

    ... steady course, when the Russian destroyer, traveling behind the U.S. ship, speeded up and approached as close as 50-100 feet (15-30 meters). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5D5H0nlw54 The U.S. Navy released this video that it said shows a Russian destroyer making an unsafe maneuver ...

  • Track's governing body ordered to suspend testosterone rules

    Track's governing body ordered to suspend testosterone rules

    Jun 03, 2019 04:45 PM EST

    ... panel of Swiss federal judges. That could take up to a year or more, meaning the 28-year-old South African might be cleared to run unrestricted in her favored event in remaining Diamond League meetings and the worlds in Doha, Qatar, in September and October. https://www.youtube.com ...

  • Trump grants Barr power over classified Russia probe info

    Trump grants Barr power over classified Russia probe info

    May 24, 2019 12:58 PM EST

    ... The cover-up has entered a new and dangerous phase," Schiff tweeted.Despite Mueller finding no evidence to support criminal charges against Americans related to Russia's actions, his report documented extensive Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 campaign and willingness on the part of some in Trump's ...

  • Analysis: The role Russian businessmen played in the Mueller report

    Analysis: The role Russian businessmen played in the Mueller report

    Apr 22, 2019 08:42 PM EST

    ... years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iThiTnODYE To be clear, Mueller did not identify evidence of a connection between Manafort’s polling data and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election or “establish that Manafort otherwise coordinated with the Russian government on its election-interference efforts.” But correspondence cited ...

  • Egyptians vote on changes that would extend el-Sissi’s rule

    Egyptians vote on changes that would extend el-Sissi’s rule

    Apr 20, 2019 05:46 PM EST

    ... But they also include an article specific to el-Sissi that extends his current second four-year term to six years and allows him to run for another six-year term in 2024 — potentially extending his rule until 2030. Novelist Omar Knawy voted “No” in the referendum. He said he ...

  • Mueller report finds no Trump-Russia collusion, but does not exonerate president, attorney general says

    Mueller report finds no Trump-Russia collusion, but does not exonerate president, attorney general says

    Mar 24, 2019 07:42 PM EST

    ... indicted.Barr’s chief of staff called White House counsel Emmet Flood at 3 p.m. Sunday to brief him on the report to Congress. https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1109911057013919746 Mueller’s investigation ensnared nearly three dozen people, senior Trump campaign operatives among them. The probe illuminated Russia’s ...

  • Barr on pace to release Sunday summary findings on Russia investigation

    Barr on pace to release Sunday summary findings on Russia investigation

    Mar 24, 2019 01:35 PM EST

    ... prosecutors. All told, Mueller charged 34 people, including the president’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and three Russian companies. Twenty-five Russians were indicted on charges related to election interference, accused either of hacking Democratic email accounts during the campaign or of ...