Thursday's Headlines: FBI’s pushback on GOP memo could land its director in Trump’s crosshairs
Schiff accuses Nunes of altering memo before sending it to White House; Trump-FBI feud over classified memo erupts into open conflict; President's appeal for unity faces a reality...
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It is highly unusual for the White House and the FBI to be so publicly at odds over a matter of national security, and it was unclear what impact the disagreement over a controversial House Intelligence Committee memo might have on the standing of FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.
The GOP called the changes "minor edits," but Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) should withdraw the memo from the White House and begin the process of releasing it again.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the Intelligence Committee chair, called the FBI objections to the memo's release "spurious" after the bureau challenged the classified document's accuracy. The White House and congressional Republicans are expected to soon make its contents public.
By Josh Dawsey, Devlin Barrett and Karoun Demirjian • Read more »
Republican senators and House members are uncertain over how to contend with another spending deadline, immigration deadlock, November's electoral challenges — and Trump himself, whose controversies have compounded their troubles.
Hurricane Maria devastated one of the nation's largest and poorest school systems: nearly one-third of schools reopened without power and returning students found that 25,000 of their peers and 200 teachers had fled to the mainland. But amid the obstacles, classes resumed.
If the debt ceiling isn't raised by the first half of March, "the government would be unable to pay its obligations fully, and it would delay making payments for its activities, default on its debt obligations, or both," the Congressional Budget Office said.
The president's bluster has exacerbated fears in South Korea that the White House is seriously considering some sort of strike on North Korean targets, a move that would instantly put millions of Korean lives at risk.
The organization says life-saving therapies like chemotherapy and radiation can cause heart failure and other serious cardiac problems, sometimes years after treatment.
The force from the chartered 10-car Amtrak train sliced into a garbage truck, killing one person. It was a deadly start to a GOP gathering slated for West Virginia.
By Mike DeBonis, Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe • Read more »
Megan Barry, a Democrat who is considered a rising star, publicly apologized for the extramarital affair with the police officer. The affair has also drawn scrutiny to the overtime the officer accrued while managing her security.
An electrical engineer hunting for a spy satellite instead found another supposedly dead spacecraft, raising hope that NASA can revive a mission that changed our understanding of the "invisible ocean" around Earth.
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