Breaking: Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers collides with garbage truck

The Amtrak train carrying a number of Republican lawmakers to an annual party conference set to take place in West Virginia collided with what appears to be a garbage truck near Crozet, Virginia on Wednesday. The extent of injuries is not currently clear, though reports of some injuries have begun surfacing on social media. According […]

Congress to investigate Obama scheme to nix investigation into Hezbollah terrorists

Lawmakers are launching an investigation into Obama-era efforts to thwart a longstanding U.S. investigation into the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, according to multiple congressional officials and insiders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. The Obama administration worked behind the scenes to thwart a decade-long Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into Hezbollah and its highly lucrative drug […]

Mueller, FBI face crisis in public confidence

Sixty-three percent of all voters believe that the FBI has been resisting providing information to Congress on the Clinton and Trump investigations. This is a remarkable finding for an agency whose new head said a few days ago that the agency was in fine shape. No, it isn’t. Fifty-four percent say that special counsel Robert […]

News Roundup: FBI vs. Congress heats up, Aussie Army officer suggests prostitutes for deployed troops, Jailed inmate defiles Quran with bodily fluids

Pass. The. Popcorn: U.S. House Republicans are drafting a contempt of Congress resolution against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, claiming stonewalling in producing material related to the Russia-Trump probes and other matters. Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and other committee Republicans, after considering such action for several weeks, decided to move […]

He’s a member of Congress. The Kremlin likes him so much it gave him a code name.

For two decades, Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence source worthy of a Kremlin code name. The following year, the California Republican became even more valuable, assuming the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs […]

Congress wants more answers about ‘a disturbing picture’ emerging at the State Department

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior U.S. senators asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday to explain “questionable management practices” at his department that they believe are weakening the country’s diplomatic power, adding to a chorus of concern in Congress. Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen delivered a letter to Tillerson asking […]

House says U.S. military aid to Saudis in Yemen war is unauthorized

The House of Representatives passed a rare bipartisan rebuke of U.S. military efforts in the ongoing Yemeni civil war on Monday, saying the U.S. military is not authorized to provide military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition under current use of force authorizations. The resolution is non-binding and therefore won’t put an end to the Department […]