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New Details about Basis for Andrew McCabe’s Firing from FBI Revealed

April 6, 2018 Focus Washington

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired last month for committing three violations of the bureau’s ethics code, Fox News reported. The violations were first revealed by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector […]

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Justice Department Fails to Hand over FBI Documents

April 6, 2018 Focus Washington

The Justice Department failed to meet an initial deadline to give the House Judiciary Committee 1.2 million documents related to the charging decisions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence […]

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Medical Group Says ‘No Valid Reason’ to Ban Transgender Troops

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

The largest association of doctors in the United States is arguing that there is “no medically valid reason” to bar transgender individuals from serving in the military, countering President Donald Trump’s policy issued in March, […]

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Senator Roberts: Farmers and Ranchers Should Not be Trump’s Collateral Damage

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

Republican Senator Pat Roberts criticized President Donald Trump administration’s trade dispute with China on Wednesday, stating that farmers and ranchers should not be Trump’s collateral damage. “These are real people, real families. You don’t use them as a […]

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Mulvaney Responded to Warren’s Doubts

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mick Mulvaney, has responded to Senator Elizabeth Warren when she questioned his actions and leadership of the bureau. On Thursday, Mulvaney sent Warren a letter […]

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Harvard University Facing Lawsuit over Alleged Discrimination in Admissions

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

A group that is suing Harvard University is demanding that it publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants, saying the records show a pattern of discrimination against Asian-Americans going back decades, The […]

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White House: Trump is ‘Not Involved’ in Picking whether Amazon Gets Multibillion-dollar Pentagon Contract

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump is “not involved” in the process of deciding whether Amazon receives a multibillion-dollar Defense Department cloud computing deal, the White House said Wednesday, CNBC informed. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the President has not taken […]

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U.S. to Sanction Russian Oligarchs under Law Retaliating for Alleged Election-meddling

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

The Trump administration intends to impose sanctions to a number of Russian oligarchs according to a new law targeting Moscow in retaliation for alleged election meddling, Fox News has learned. It was not immediately clear how many Russian […]

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POLITICO: White House Sees ‘Short-term Pain’ as Trump Stokes China Trade War

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump and his top aides on Wednesday insisted the United States did not touch off a trade war with China, even as the two countries have stepped up retaliatory actions and as the […]

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Oregon Governor Defies Trump, Says She Won’t Sent Troops to Guard Border

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

Oregon Governor Kate Brown said she will refuse any order from President Donald Trump to send Oregon’s guard troops down south to the US-Mexico border, Newsweek reported. Trump wants National Guard troops sent to the […]

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Mexican Senators Call on Authorities to Halt Cooperation with U.S.

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

Mexican senators are calling on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to halt the nation’s cooperation with the U.S. on various issues after President Donald Trump went on the attack against the country, The Hill reported. […]

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Nunes Threatens to Enforce Subpoena over FBI Memo that Kick-started Russia Investigation

April 5, 2018 Focus Washington

Congressional investigators are still facing blockades over FBI records, despite promises of cooperation from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to a letter obtained by Fox News on Wednesday, . The Republican […]

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Employees Demand From Google to Stop Developing Military AI Technology

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

Several thousands of Google employees are demanding that the company pulls off from its work on a Pentagon project that is developing machine learning technology (Artificial Intelligence) that could be used for drone warfare. The […]

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Hillary Clinton Claims ‘Fox News is Always Trying to Impeach Me’

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

Democratic 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed Tuesday that Fox News is “trying to impeach me,” the latest gripe the former secretary of state has expressed about Fox’s coverage, Fox News informed. Clinton, who holds […]

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NASA and Lockheed Martin are Building Supersonic Commercial Airplane

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

Lockheed Martin has received $247.5 million from NASA in order to design and produce an airplane for supersonic commercial air travel, both the space agency and the U.S. biggest defense contractor have announced on Tuesday. […]

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China’s Vice Finance Minister Rejects Talk of Selling U.S. Treasuries in Response to Tariffs

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

As the trade war between the world’s two largest economies escalates and China and the U.S. fire at one another with sharp import tariffs, some have raised fears of another powerful tool of Chinese retaliation: its […]

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DNC Member Under Fire for ‘Colored People’ Remark

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

A member of the Democratic National Committee is under fire for using the term “colored people” to refer to black people—the result, he says, of tripping over his words when he meant to say “people […]

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Twitter CEO Tells Trump To Take Action Not Pray

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

In the wake of the latest shooting which took place Tuesday at YouTube’s headquarters, the CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey called on President Donald Trump to stop “being reactive” to shootings and embrace stricter gun […]

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China Retaliates with $50bn Tariffs in U.S. Goods

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

The government of China has reciprocated to the new tariffs that were imposed by the Trump administration, and has assessed its own set of tariffs that target American soybeans, cars, and other exported goods, The […]

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Planned Parenthood Says Kushner and Ivanka Trump Offered Bribe

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

The CEO of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, has accused Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner of making an offer of federal funding in exchange for ditching an abortion provision, which she added felt like a […]

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McMaster Says Administration Failed to ‘Impose Sufficient Costs’ on Kremlin

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

Outgoing national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the United States has “failed to impose sufficient costs” on Russia, adding that this has only emboldened the Kremlin even more, The Hill reported. “We have failed to […]

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U.S. Company Websites Begin to Block Traffic from Russia

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

A new report shows that the Russian Federation is the most blocked country by U.S. companies that have implemented country-specific IP block requests. The report by American cybersecurity company Distil Networks, titled “Bad Bot Report 2018: […]

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Trump Plans to Put Military Soldiers on Border Patrol

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that he is planning to deploy U.S. troops along the southern border as a way to prevent illegal crossings “until we can have a wall.” “Until we can have a […]

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DOJ Gave Mueller Authority to Investigate Manafort’s Ties With Moscow

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

The Department of Justice authorized special counsel Robert Mueller to look into the possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and the Russian government. According to The Associated Press, the detail was […]

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Israel Approved ‘Unlawful’ Killing of Unarmed Gaza Protesters, HRW Says

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

The Israeli army’s decision to open fire on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza on Friday, killing 17 people and wounding hundreds of others, was “calculated” and “unlawful,” a human rights watchdog has said, Newsweek informed. Human […]

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Ten Florida Mayors Sue Over Right to Implement Their Own Gun Laws

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

Ten mayors in South Florida are suing the state in an effort to gain the right to implement their own gun laws in their cities, The Hill reported. Officials from cities in Miami-Dade and Broward […]

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Trump Attorney Seeks to Force Porn Star’s Lawsuit into Arbitration

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer asked a federal judge on Monday to force adult film star Stormy Daniels to use arbitration to settle a dispute over an agreement to keep quiet about a sexual encounter […]

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Baltic Leaders Will Seek More Troops from Trump as Protection Against Russia

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

The leaders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will ask the U.S. to send more troops and bolster air defenses on NATO’s eastern flank to deter Russia when they meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, officials […]

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Mueller’s Team ‘Informally Met’ with a Consulting Firm on its Work with UAE

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

Special counsel Robert Mueller, who’s investigating Russian interference in U.S. politics, has looked into the work of a consulting firm that’s done business in the Middle East, CNBC informed. Mueller’s team “informally met” Joel Zamel, co-founder of the consulting firm Wikistrat, according to […]

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Former Watergate Lawyer Says Trump Will Cooperate with Mueller

April 3, 2018 Focus Washington

According to a lawyer who formerly had a Watergate scandal client, President Donald Trump will likely face increased pressure to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller as the 2018 midterm elections are approaching, but he […]

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