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MORE’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday requested to postpone his sentencing for lying to FBI agents about his contacts with a Russian ambassador until his cooperation with federal prosecutors is fully complete.  The surprise decision by Flynn’s defense attorneys came after U.S.

Facebook granted major tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix access to users' personal data in ways not previously disclosed, according to interviews and internal documents reported by The New York Times. The news outlet cited interviews and hundreds of documents from the social media platform that showed the company allowed Microsoft's Bing search engine to view the names of Facebook users' friends without consent; allowed Netflix and Spotify to read users' private messages; and allowed Amazon to obt

The Senate passed a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill on Tuesday night, handing a significant victory to MORE and senators who lobbied to advance the legislation before the end of the year. Senators voted 87-12 on the legislation, which merges a House-passed prison reform bill aimed at reducing recidivism with a handful of changes to sentencing laws and mandatory minimum prison sentences. Its passage is also a win for MORE, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, who took on criminal justice reform as one of his primary policy goals and 

In a swift reversal, the White House on Tuesday dropped its demand that a government funding measure include $5 billion for MORE’s wall on the Mexican border. Trump’s concession paves the way for lawmakers to reach a compromise and end the Congress without a partial government shutdown.

Trump’s concession and rhetorical turnaround come after the Hill Democrats used their leverage on the business-first leadership of the GOP — and among Trump’s Hill outreach deputies — to repeatedly block construction of his favored concrete walls. The prototype concrete walls are standing in the sand near San Diego. In March 2017, according to Axios,

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration was looking to “specific pots of money” to fund the bollard fencing that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been constructing in San Diego, California, Calexico, California, El Paso, Texas, and in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. As Breitbart News Political Editor

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration was looking to “specific pots of money” to fund the bollard fencing that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been constructing in San Diego, California, Calexico, California, El Paso, Texas, and in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. As Breitbart News Political Editor

Congress has not taken up a spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other parts of the government, as President Donald Trump has previously insisted upon $5 billion for his planned border wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and Democrats have refused to budge on the matter.

PHOENIX — Arizona’s governor has named Representative Martha McSally to replace US Senator Jon Kyl in the US Senate seat that belonged to John McCain. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday that McSally will take over after Kyl’s resignation becomes effective Dec. 31. McSally last month lost a race for Arizona’s other Senate seat to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. ‘‘With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona,’’ Ducey said in a statement.

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