State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the agency is poised to move “quickly” after the Supreme Court shot down a lower court’s ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing widescale reductions in force across the federal government.  “I think it’s fair to say that with everything else that happens [at the State Department], it will happen quickly,” Bruce said when asked how soon the agency would begin issuing...

Obama-era intelligence officials acknowledged that they had no “empirical evidence” of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but continued to publicly push the “narrative” of collusion. The House Intelligence Committee, in 2017, conducted depositions of top Obama intelligence officials, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security advisor Susan Rice and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, among others. FLASHBACK: HOUSE INTEL TRANSCRIPTS...

A judge in Los Angeles presided over a hearing Thursday where she considered granting a request that could have major implications for immigration enforcement in California, a state that has become a focal point in President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation plans. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, heard arguments about whether to grant an emergency restraining order against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over allegations the agency...