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The Interior Department's internal watchdog says that charter flights taken by Secretary Ryan Zinke did not violate any laws, but that the department could have avoided some of the cost in an interim report published Tuesday. The department's inspector general found that three flights on private or military planes taken by Zinke generally followed the relevant rules and were all approved by ethics officials in advance.

The surprise firing of former FBI Director James Comey rocked the political world, and now he’s re-entering the fray with some revelations that could send shockwaves of their own. Comey weighed in with comments about some key political players, from ret. Gen.

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. It was revealed in court Monday that Cohen's unnamed third client was Fox News host Sean Hannity. “This is crazy,” Colbert said.

A new report from the Safe Drinking Water Act. According to the EPA’s inspector general, Pruitt’s Chief of Staff, Ryan Jackson, directly oversaw and approved the pay raises for Sarah Greenwalt, Millan Hupp and Millan Hupp’s sister, Sydney Hupp.

A federal judge Monday rejected efforts by President Donald Trump and his personal attorney to keep law enforcement from accessing records seized in a stunning raid last week. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said she has “faith" in federal prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, who are running the investigation into Trump's personal attorney and self-described fixer, Michael Cohen.

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Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera is crossing party lines to back the governor in his reelection bid, delivering the Republican an early endorsement.  Capital Source Baker’s aides were quick to push back at any notion there was a line between the donations and his justifying the cost of Vertex’s drugs.

It also acknowledges that the Assad government probably retained some ability to again attack with chemical agents.  The US ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council on Saturday that the United States is ‘‘locked and loaded.”   Vice President Mike Pence said the US-led airstrikes on Syria “degraded and crippled” the country’s chemical weapons capability.  “Could not have had a better result,” President Trump wrote.   ‘‘What is happening now is not normal,’’ Comey writes in his book, which comes out on Tuesday. ‘‘It is not fake news.

It also acknowledges that the Assad government probably retained some ability to again attack with chemical agents.  The US ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council on Saturday that the United States is ‘‘locked and loaded.”   Vice President Mike Pence said the US-led airstrikes on Syria “degraded and crippled” the country’s chemical weapons capability.  “Could not have had a better result,” President Trump wrote.   ‘‘What is happening now is not normal,’’ Comey writes in his book, which comes out on Tuesday. ‘‘It is not fake news.