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Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who lost her bid to Donald Trump, responded to the Mueller report’s findings, saying that Congress should be “fearless” in pursuing more answers on Russian interference in the election — but stopped short of calling for impeachment. “Mueller’s report leaves many unanswered questions. . . But it is a road map.

Trump. Trump and his supporters have taken a victory lap following the report's release, touting that it proved "no collusion, no obstruction." On the issue of obstruction, Mueller's team detailed 10 potential cases of obstruction of justice, but did not make a determination on the issue. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

The case of Russian agent Maria Butina will come to a close Friday. Butina, who was swept up in a national furor last year over her efforts to create unofficial channels of communication between Washington and Moscow, will be sentenced in a federal court in D.C. on Friday. She pleaded guilty in December to acting as an unregistered foreign agent. The Russian national ultimately was not found to be connected to the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S.

When MORE in his launch video. But his former boss loomed large throughout the day. In an Instagram post announcing his candidacy, Team Biden posted a photo of the former vice president with his arm around Obama. On Biden’s website, the campaign highlighted how close their relationship was: “A running mate becomes a friend for life.”  Allies also noted that Biden had brought to his campaign former Obama aide Anita Dunn to help steer his communications shop.

Anita Hill has confirmed that former Vice President MORE reached out to her by phone earlier this month to express regret over how she was treated during her 1991 testimony regarding Justice Clarence Thomas, but said she found the conversation unsatisfying and wouldn't describe his comments as an apology. “I cannot be satisfied by simply saying I’m sorry for what happened to you.

MORE is making an aggressive play for African American voters in the South, part of a campaign strategy to ride his front-runner status to an early Democratic primary victory in 2020. Biden, who served as vice president for eight years under MORE, the nation’s first black president, made white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Va., the focal point of his campaign launch video Thursday. He’s spent a significant time traveling to South Carolina and other southern states over the years; he’s

Carlos Zuniga-Aviles, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, who has been using the alias “Jose Avila-Agurcia” while in the United States, was charged with murder this week after he allegedly kicked four-month-old Alexander Lizondro-Chacon to death on April 12. According to police, Zuniga-Aviles became enraged with the baby’s mother, Mercy Lizondro-Chacon, after learning that he was not the child’s father.

An executive order by King County, Washington, Executive Dow Constantine signed this week bans the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency from using the King County International Airport, commonly known as Boeing Field, to deport all illegal aliens from the country, including those convicted of crimes against Americans. Constantine, in a statement, said his decision to ban ICE from using the airport to charter deportation flights of criminal illegal aliens is because King County “respects the rights of all people.” “Here in King County, we are a welcoming community that respects the

The latest Gallup poll finds that overall immigration to the country and illegal immigration is ranked as the top “most important problem” in the U.S. according to GOP voters and conservatives. About 41 percent of Republicans said immigration is the biggest problem, as well as 35 percent of conservatives. Among all American voters, immigration is the second most important problem in the country.