by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Former House IT aide Imran Awan pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and will not be prosecuted for any crimes on Capitol Hill, an assistant U.S. attorney said on July 3. In a plea agreement reached with the former systems administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller is expanding his investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election by dipping into the Justice Department’s well of resources to hire more prosecutors, a report said. “As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2018 Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok has been subpoenaed to testify at a public hearing on Capitol Hill next week. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, issued the subpoena for Strzok to appear at a joint hearing between the Judiciary and Oversight committees on July 10. After rejecting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 The House Democratic Caucus’s server went “missing” after it became evidence in the House IT scandal investigation connected to Imran Awan, a report said. A secret memo from the top law enforcement official in Congress also said more than “40 House offices may have been victims of IT security […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on July 2 became the fourth Trump administration official to be harassed in public at a restaurant. According to a Facebook post, Kristin Mink, a teacher at the elite private school Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C. where President Barack Obama sent his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2018 Palestinians loyal to Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas rallied in Ramallah on July 2 to protest what they say are attempts by the United States “to impose its plans in the area.” Protesters expressed support for Abbas and the PA leadership’s rejection of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2018 The FBI continues to withhold information alleging Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s interfered in the Hillary Clinton email investigation while the agency had no problem leaking the unverified dossier alleging Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign, a report said. That information on Lynch “consists of unverified accounts […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller was granted wide latitude by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to pursue any alleged contact between Russia and the Trump campaign not matter how “stale” it is, a judge said. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, who is presiding over Mueller’s case against former Trump campaign […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval rating jumped to 47 percent in June in large part due to a shocking 10 percent increase in support from Hispanic voters, a poll showed. The findings raised new questions about the credibility of the heavily anti-Trump mainstream media. “That growing support among Latinos […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on June 30 that Saudi King Salman has agreed to Trump’s request to increase oil production “maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels” to offset production cuts from Iran and Venezuela. Trump tweeted on June 30: “Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the […]