Democrat Senate minority leader says president’s remarks are ‘outright threat’ as other leading Democrats warn ‘political violence has no place in America’ Robert Garcia, the ranking member on the House oversight committee, has sent a letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, urging the justice department to release the complete trove of files related … Read more
Move comes after Donald Trump dropped his opposition to a vote on releasing files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Full report: House set to vote on release of Epstein documents Explainer: What to know about the US House vote Explainer: What are the Epstein files? The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers … Read more
The US president says he backs lawmakers’ efforts to release the files before an expected House vote this week. Plus: is there a dark side to gratitude? Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of … Read more
Experts believe decision is designed to pressure Venezuela’s leader into stepping down with threat of military force Is US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded? The US has said it will designate a putative Venezuelan drug cartel allegedly led by Nicolás Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization, as the Trump administration … Read more
President repeats assertion that former ally is a ‘traitor’ even as he urges fellow Republicans to vote for release of documents relating to sex offender A leading Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturer said on Monday that it has named former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to its newly launched advisory board, a move aimed … Read more
Experts say air traffic controllers quickly returning to work, with promise of full back pay, and even $10,000 bonus Fears that it would take weeks or even months for flight schedules in the US to return to normal in the wake of the US federal government shutdown do not appear to be coming true and … Read more
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives Alice Wong, a writer and disability rights activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday at a hospital in San Francisco due to an infection, said … Read more
Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rights A tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he made about Israel, including characterizations of the … Read more
Figures show none of US ‘big four’ – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – appear to have sent teams to cover summit in Belém Thousands of media professionals are at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil. Almost none of them appear to be from the four major US broadcasters. Nearly 4,000 members of the … Read more
Even if bill passes the House, it will still need to get through the Senate before files can be released Lawyers for two of President Donald Trump’s foes who have been charged by the justice department are expected to ask a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the cases against them, saying the prosecutor who … Read more