The federal ruling handed an initial defeat to President Trump’s vow to defy subpoenas by House Democrats and came in one of the first courtroom challenges to lawmakers’ investigative demands.
President Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow previously denied a claim that he made changes to Michael Cohen’s 2017 statement to Congress about the Trump Tower project in Moscow, according to people familiar with a House testimony.
The Commerce Department slightly eased the timing of restrictions, saying it would permit some transactions to continue for 90 days, allowing Huawei to continue receiving U.S. equipment.
Workers in the engine assembly shop at the Motor Sich factory in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. (Oksana Parafeniuk for The Post)
The former Soviet republic once churned out arms and equipment for Russia. Now Beijing has a foothold that raises alarms in the West.
GOP leaders are stuck between an angry president who often seeks to punish his critics and their reluctance to penalize one of their own.
At least five members of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team were said to have confronted her about allowing the Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
The president’s desire to capture the nation’s collective attention by adding his own commentary and jeers can make him seem inescapable.
At the inauguration, Lori Lightfoot laid out her plans to curb citywide cronyism and corruption — a message that helped deliver her landslide victory.
Campaign 2020The cable news network has become a flash point in the 2020 campaign. Several Democratic candidates are participating in town halls, but others are opting out.
A widespread outbreak of destructive tornadoes has not yet come to pass, but it’s too soon for those in the Texas panhandle and western and central Oklahoma to let their guard down.
Officials blame groups such as Del Bigtree’s for measles outbreaks in New York.
State GOP lawmakers’ frustration with Democratic-leaning Chicago is a symptom of a larger rural-urban divide, researchers say.
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