Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (The New York Times/File) President Donald Trump and his top advisers have vowed to continue the fight against the Islamic State and its offshoots,..…
The potential legal jeopardy of Whitaker’s testifying about his tenure as attorney general was underscored recently when the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, alleged that Whitaker may have given misleading testimony..…
In addition to its prosecution of Cohen for a litany of crimes — including a pair of campaign-finance violations for hush payments he says he made to two women at Trump's direction shortly before the 2016 election to keep them from talking about alleged affairs with the then-presidential candidate, affairs..…