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Top military leaders’ concerns over how the Obama administration’s transgender policy would affect military readiness prompted the Trump administration to review the policy and enact the new one that went into effect Friday, according to a senior Pentagon official.

Pentagon leaders sought to convince senators of the need to stand up for the Space Force during a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Gaetz filed the “PENCIL Act,” calling for Schiff to be removed from the House Intelligence Committee and for his security clearance to be revoked.

A senior U.S. State Department official traveled to Taiwan this week to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act in a sign of U.S. support for Taiwan.

Nunes launched another defamation lawsuit against actors publishing derogatory claims against him, this time suing McClatchy.

Barr told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he thinks that the Federal Bureau of Investigation did spy on the Trump campaign. 

Barr said Tuesday he intends to release a redacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week.”

Attorney General William Barr testifies on Tuesday in front of the House Appropriations Committee on the Justice Department’s fiscal year 2020 budget.

The Air Force said on Monday that it has not yet finalized a list of potential bases where Space Command will be located.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is planning to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr this week, as part of committee Republicans’ investigation into Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department abuse while probing President Trump’s campaign for alleged Russian collusion.

Some Democrats are suggesting Barr broke the law in announcing the principal conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week.

Sen. Thom Tillis said his office will investigate allegations that a two-star Army general has wrongly retaliated against Green Berets under his command.

Matt Gaetz on Wednesday unveiled the “Green Real Deal,” which he calls a realistic counterproposal to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.” 

Papadopoulos discussed in a recent exclusive interview why he pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, and why he regrets it.

Papadopoulos hit back at the media for suggesting she was a Russian spy, or making other derogatory claims, in a recent exclusive interview.

Gaetz (R-FL) will unveil a “Green Real Deal” on Wednesday, as a counterproposal to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)’s “Green New Deal.” 

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen hailed the U.S. commitment to Taiwan as “stronger than ever,” during at a recent livestream appearance.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats are planning to authorize subpoenas on Wednesday to obtain the full Special Counsel report.

Papadopoulos said he believes Schiff and other Democrat lawmakers pushed a narrative of Russian collusion as part of a power grab. 

Papadopoulos hailed conservative news media outlets for not falling for what he considers a Democrat-run psychological operation.

House Intelligence Committee Republicans unveiled during a hearing on Thursday a letter signed by all Republicans on the committee asking Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to step down as chairman.

Nunes is planning to send a criminal referral next week to the DOJ that will detail “multiple referrals on a number of different crimes.”

Here are 14 Schiff tweets asserting evidence of collusion, or that the president’s campaign colluded with Russia.

A growing number of House Republicans are calling on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to step down from his post as House Intelligence Committee chairman, after the special counsel did not establish that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

Google requested a meeting with Dunford, after he called the tech company out for conducting work that directly benefitted China’s military.

The Pentagon announced Monday evening that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan authorized $1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for building the border wall pursuant to the president’s emergency declaration last month.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday called on Democrats to accept the outcome of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and to stop trying to relitigate the 2016 election.

Brennan faced a day of reckoning, after the Special Counsel investigation did not establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Rand Paul on Monday called for an investigation into Obama administration officials for their alleged roles in concocting and spreading the idea that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia.

Attorney General William Barr announced Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that President Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia or Russian agents during the 2016 election, but some diehards are continuing to push the narrative that there was collusion.

Lynne Patton, a Trump administration official, celebrated in a triumphant statement the news of Special Counsel Robert Mueller finding no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia after more than two years of investigating.

Barr announced Sunday that the Special Counsel investigation found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

Mueller delivered his final report to Barr, marking the official end of the investigation — and with no further indictments on the way. 

Grassley declared the Russian collusion narrative dead after Mueller turned over his report to Barr with no further indictments planned.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland was at an event in Washington this week to discuss his experience training Iraqi and Syrian militaries. But he ended up delivering a warning for the U.S. military: “Identity politics is a cancer.”

National Security Advisor John Bolton on Thursday called on China to exert pressure on North Korea, as the road ahead for denuclearization talks remains unclear.