A
Washington Post fact-check
dinged former national security adviser Susan Rice for claiming the
Obama administration had gotten the Syrian government to "verifiably
give up
its chemical weapons stockpile." In January, Rice, in an interview with
NPR, pointed to the removal of chemical weapons from Syria as an
achievement for the administration; President Barack Obama dropped a
planned attack on Syrian facilities in exchange for a 2013 diplomatic
solution
that was supposed to result in the removal of all chemical weapons. ...
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North
Korea is vowing tough counteraction
to any military moves that might follow the U.S. move to send the USS
Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group to waters off the
Korean
Peninsula. The statement from Pyongyang comes as tensions on the
divided peninsula are high because of U.S.-South Korea wargames now
underway and
recent ballistic missile launches by the North. Pyongyang sees the
annual maneuvers as a dress rehearsal for invasion, while the North's
missile
launches violate ... Read More |
Russian
President Vladimir Putin will not meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson when the former Exxon Mobil CEO visits Moscow
on Wednesday, a move that could signal tensions between Washington and the Kremlin. ... Read More |
An
employee at the embattled Veterans
Affairs hospital in Arizona is facing a punishment ranging from
“reprimand to removal,” Fox News has learned, for publicly revealing the
name of a colleague he claims harassed him after the whistle-blower
exposed exceedingly long wait times for patients at the Phoenix
facility. In a
letter dated March 30, the VA accused scheduling manager Kuauhtemoc
Rodriguez of violating “privacy standards you are expected to enforce
[and]
breaching your responsibilities as a supervisor,” by sending the media a
copy of an email he wrote to the hospital director that detailed
alleged harassment and ... Read More |
When Congress returns from
its Easter recess April 24
,
lawmakers will have only four legislative days left to decide on a
spending plan that prevents a government shutdown.
With such a narrow window, the House and Senate will have little choice
but to pass a huge, omnibus spending bill and again put off a return to
the
regular budget process for a later day. This prospect rankles
conservatives such ...
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