By Claudette Roulo – The Defense Department will announce updates to the vetting process for foreign military students “in the coming days,” the assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs said in response to the attack on U.S. Read more…

By Chuck Ross – House Democrats on Friday released text messages that shed new light on a possible surveillance campaign against Marie Yovanovitch when she served as ambassador to Ukraine. The documents are screenshots of messages between Robert Hyde, a Read more…

By Chris White – The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled Friday that children do not have standing to sue the Trump administration and the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change. Climate policy comes under the Read more…

By Mary Margaret Olohan – The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List announced a $52 million effort to back President Donald Trump and Republicans the same week Planned Parenthood launched a $45 million campaign backing Democrats. Pro-life and pro-choice groups are Read more…

By R. Mitchell – HOUSTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists working at George Bush Intercontinental Airport intercepted two vials of undeclared biological sciences, Jan. 10. CBP agriculture specialists intercepted these biological samples when a traveler attempted to Read more…

By Chuck Ross – To hear Lev Parnas tell it, as he did in interviews this week with Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper, his laser-like focus on getting rid of the American ambassador to Ukraine was purely in service of Read more…

By Luke Rosiak – The Army Times named a 28-year-old former Democratic aide as its top editor Jan. 10. Sarah Sicard has been vocal about hating President Donald Trump and previously worked as a spokeswoman for a New York councilman Read more…