The intensity of the focus on Paul Manafort is widely seen as a potential effort by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team to pressure him into providing information on others in the Russia probe. But the “brass-knuckle” tactics have raised eyebrows in the legal community.Continue reading →
{FD} John Kelly fires back at Democrat who called him ‘disgrace to the uniform’
EXCLUSIVE: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired back at a prominent House Democrat who called him a “disgrace to the uniform,” in the Gold Star father and retired Marine Corps general’s first public response to the personal attack on his service.Continue reading →
Will Steve Bannon’s legacy live on? China trade probe poses key test
A stand-off with China over the country’s shady tactics for obtaining U.S. tech is at the center of speculation over whether Steve Bannon’s nationalist trade agenda will survive in the Trump administration even after his resignation.Continue reading →
San Fran park braces for “Patriot Prayer” rally amid fears of challenges from all sides
What happens when a group that claims its intention is to promote peace, love and unity applies for a permit to rally in a national park? Continue reading →
{FD} Immigration: Why Trump wants to change the act that led to decades of unintended consequences
At the heart of White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller’s heated exchange with a reporter over proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy is a decades-old act of Congress that had consequences its framers claimed they never intended.Continue reading →
{FD} Would Japanese nukes stop North Korean aggression? Tokyo taboo weakens amid NK testing
As North Korea advances its nuclear ambitions with yet another test of a long-range missile system, the once unthinkable has started to go mainstream in Japan: a discussion of the idea that Japan needs to have a nuclear deterrent of its own to survive … Continue reading →
{FD} North Korea’s night lights show improving economy despite sanctions
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld kept a satellite picture of the Korean peninsula in his office that showed South Korea at night lit by millions of lights–and North Korea dark except for a small dot: Pyongyang. Continue reading →
{FD} North Korea threatens nuclear attack after claiming Trump CIA director ‘shakes little fists’ at regime
North Korea will launch a “powerful nuclear hammer” at the “heart” of the United States if President Trump attempts a regime change in Pyongyang, North Korea’s state news agency warned Tuesday.Continue reading →
{FD} North Korea threatens nuclear attack after Trump CIA director “shakes little fists” at regime
North Korea will launch a “powerful nuclear hammer” at the “heart” of the United States if President Trump attempts a regime change in Pyongyang, North Korea’s state news agency warned Tuesday.Continue reading →
{FD} Taliban militants boast US special operations forces gear in shocking video
As the U.S. continues to arm its Afghan National Army allies in the war on terror, the Taliban is developing a strategy to take advantage of the influx of sophisticated western weapons, experts say. Continue reading →
