D.C. federal Judge Carl J. Nichols just ruled that Trump cannot sue New York state officials in federal court at this time to stop the release of his tax returns. Trump had sued New York MORE
A judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to a collection of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement with the New York state attorney general’s office to resolve a civil lawsuit that MORE
Federal agents raided a Long Island tech firm early Thursday amid concerns the company was selling Chinese-made equipment to the U.S. military while claiming it had been manufactured in the United States, law enforcement sources MORE
House Democrats on Tuesday released excerpts of the transcripts of their closed-door depositions with former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight MORE
UPDATE: “The decision of the Second Circuit will be taken to the Supreme Court. The issue raised in this case go to the heart of our Republic. The constitutional issues are significant,” Jay Sekulow, counsel MORE
Washington Nationals beat Houston Astros 6-2 in Game 7 for first World Series title in franchise history. The Washington Post:
House impeachment investigators on Wednesday summoned John R. Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, and two top White House lawyers to testify next week in their inquiry into Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, MORE
Granted, News Views has several threads on Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s today’s testimony to the House. More information keeps coming out and all of it is important and needs sharing. This is the latest MORE
House Democrats said Monday that the House will vote Thursday to formalize procedures for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.Democrats said the move would “ensure transparency and provide a clear path MORE
Trump has threatened to “drop” captured Isis fighters on the UK border if the government does not start repatriating them from Syrian camps. Speaking at a press conference where he announced the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr MORE
Trump tweeted earlier that he had a bigly announcement to make on Sunday morning. Because this administration has done nothing but lie since day one, it’s quite the challenge to take whatever they claim as MORE
Earlier, News Views posted that Federal Judge Beryl Howell ordered the Department of Justice to turn over all redacted parts of the Mueller Report to the House Judiciary Committee by October 30th, 2019. But, there’s MORE
Federal Judge Beryl Howell has ordered the Justice Department to release all redacted parts of the Mueller Report to the House Judiciary Committee by October 30th, 2019. The order also requires the Justice Department to MORE
The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding answers from Boeing after receiving a 2016 electronic message exchange in which a test pilot talks of unknowingly having lied to regulators and discloses “egregious” problems with the flight control system MORE
NASA reached a milestone on Friday morning when two Americans ventured out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller: The astronauts, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, had undertaken the first all-female spacewalk. MORE
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition MORE
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly to condemn President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria. Despite stark divisions over Democrats’ Trump impeachment inquiry, Democrats and Republicans banded together and approved a MORE
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s military operation in Syria could end after Kurdish fighters leave a strip of territory along its border, laying out his key condition for ending an offensive that has drawn MORE
Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned over the weekend that any effort to split with China will result in “bodies smashed and bones ground to powder” amid ongoing unrest in Hong Kong. The Chinese leader made the warning MORE
For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of MORE
Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria have struck a deal with Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an effort to repel Turkey’s march into the country—as upwards of 750 Islamic State militants (ISIS) escaped from detention centers MORE
Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) – Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. Buoyed by a night of steady advances MORE
Cracks are starting to emerge in the White House’s overarching strategy not to cooperate with any aspect of House Democrats’ impeachment investigation and other probes. In the course of a few hours Friday, former U.S. MORE
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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system over the MORE