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Former Director of National Intelligence Michael Flynn was fired from the White House after he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his interactions with the Russian government prior to President Donald Trump being sworn in. Flynn contacted former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to discuss easing sanctions on them while former President Barack Obama was still the president.

The US Senate on Thursday failed to override President Donald Trump's veto of a bipartisan measure that would have limited his power to attack Iran.

A Georgia man who was arrested for battery after he was involved in a confrontation for not wearing a mask at a gas station, now says there's more to the story, according to a report from the Herald&Review.

Justice Department prosecutor Brandon Van Grack has withdrawn from his role on the case against former Director of National Security Michael Flynn, after the DOJ announced that they would no longer prosecute Flynn.

US lawmakers on Thursday proposed renaming the street in front of China's embassy after the late Wuhan doctor punished after warning about the new coronavirus, a step sure to outrage Beijing.

Politically, a lot could happen between now and November. But Democratic strategists, in recent weeks, have been encouraged to see former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, leading in many polls. Moreover, they are hoping that if Biden performs well in November, there will be a down-ballot effect in key Senate races. Journalist Eric Lutz, this week in an article for Vanity Fair, explores the possibility that Trump’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic will help Democrats regain control of the U.S. Senate.

Attorney General Bill Barr and the Justice Department have dropped all of the charges against former Director of National Intelligence Michael Flynn, despite his guilty plea. Flynn then moved to remove his guilty plea three years later, in Jan. 2020.

During a segment with Kellyanne Conway on Fox News this Thursday, host Harris Faulkner brought up President Trump's "pretty public battle" this week with a group of never-Trump Republicans -- one of which includes her husband George Conway -- in the wake of their attack ad targeting Trump's response to the coronavirus. Faulkner also mentioned a recent Washington Post op-ed authored by George Conway where he warned that Trump's "narcissism" is impeding his ability to carry out his duties as president.

This week in Military Times, reporter Meghann Myers (the publication’s Pentagon bureau chief) discusses coronavirus screening for Americans who want to join the U.S. armed forces — and she reports that according to a MEPCOM memo posted on Twitter, a past diagnosis of COVID-19 could disqualify an applicant. Jessica Maxwell, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, confirmed to Military Times that the memo is authentic.

Politicians, celebrities and people speaking out on social media are angrily demanding the arrest of two white men in the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger in Georgia.

Hospitals and doctors are mystified by the distribution process for the COVID-19 drug remdesivir -- and they're demanding answers from the Trump administration.

According to documents uploaded by the New York Times, President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court not to release any of the grand jury information from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.