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The Pentagon has decided on two military bases in Texas that can temporarily house illegal aliens or unaccompanied children from July through December while their cases are processed: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.

The Pentagon could house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in coming months, after a request by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Pentagon spokesman.

One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night is a career employee of the Justice Department, according to reports.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) is giving the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation by the end of this week to comply with subpoenas for requested information before he starts taking action.

FBI agent Peter Strzok, who sent text messages expressing bias against President Donald Trump, was escorted out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters on Tuesday as part of disciplinary action, according to multiple reports.

A Russian man who contacted the Trump campaign in May 2016 claiming to be an American citizen named “Hank Greenberg” and offering dirt on Hillary Clinton also worked as an FBI informant for at least 17 years, according to a private investigation undertaken by former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pulled no punches against China during a college graduation speech he delivered Friday morning.

A Justice Department inspector general report released Thursday revealed a second set of lovers working on the Clinton email investigation who exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Clinton messages.

FBI agent Peter Strzok’s lawyer on Thursday slammed the Justice Department inspector general’s conclusion that he took actions “not free from bias,” calling the conclusion “bizarre” and “critically flawed.” 

The long-awaited Justice Department inspector general report on the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation released Thursday found that FBI agent Peter Strzok had a “biased state of mind” that may have played a role in his conduct during the investigation. 

The Justice Department Inspector General’s long-awaited report on the Obama DOJ  and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation is set to be released Thursday, and will likely spark new questions over whether she should be prosecuted.

President Trump announced Tuesday morning that the U.S. would suspend joint military exercises with South Korea on the Korean peninsula, at least during peace talks with North Korea.

Through the twists and turns on the road to the improbable U.S.-North Korea summit, Tony Giannini, 70, never wavered in his faith that it would happen.

A progressive wing of the Democratic party, led by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), is bucking their leadership and supporting President Trump’s diplomatic efforts on North Korea.

The arrest of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s former security director James Wolfe on Friday has raised questions about the legitimacy and impartiality of the committee’s Russia probe.

California Democrat Ro Khanna came out in strong support of President Trump’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea on Friday, breaking with his party’s leadership.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to end the U.S. government’s ability to detain people indefinitely, arguing that it violates Americans’ Sixth Amendment rights to a speedy and public trial.

Spenser Rapone — the Army soldier who became notorious after a picture of him in his West Point uniform holding a “Communism Will Win” sign circulated the web — was discharged from the Army this month, according to social media postings.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday denied that he tipped off CNN’s Jake Tapper about the briefing former FBI Director James Comey gave to President-elect Trump about the dossier that sparked the network’s first reporting on the dossier.

State Department reporters were in a tizzy Tuesday over an exclusive interview U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell gave to Breitbart News on Sunday.

President Trump’s lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team is trying to “frame” Trump.

Congressional investigators are looking into the role that foreign allies might have played early on in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, amid irregularities on normal information sharing practices.

ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday vowed to clean up problems found by the Pentagon’s first building-wide audit.

ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday that U.S. troops were not leaving South Korea, despite speculation that the U.S. could reduce its presence amid negotiations with North Korea. 

SINGAPORE — The tiny, balmy city-state island of Singapore is bracing for a historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un slated to take place there in just one week, on June 12.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called out China for militarizing “artificial features” in the South China Sea — a dig at China’s placing weapons on land features claimed by several countries that China has turned into islands.

SINGAPORE — Although Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to discuss North Korea during his talks with allies and partners at an annual defense conference in Singapore, he is also expected to address the other 800-lb. gorilla in the room — China.

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Wednesday that he is renaming U.S. Pacific Command to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in recognition of the “increasing connectivity” between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that the U.S. would confront behavior out of step with international law, in response to a question about U.S. defense policy towards China’s increasing deployment of military weapons on territories in the South China Sea.

This Memorial Day weekend, thousands of Americans headed to the Arlington National Cemetery to honor those who served and sacrificed.

“All ages, all races — the only requirement to be in this group is you have to have served or still serve as an active duty Special Forces soldier. If you haven’t done that, then you can’t do this. You can’t be in this club,” he said.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters on Friday morning that the U.S. summit with North Korea may still happen, after President Trump announced its cancelation the day before.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will face a high-stakes test on Thursday afternoon when he meets with Republican lawmakers seeking information on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

The Pentagon announced on Wednesday it has disinvited China from participating in the upcoming Rim of the Pacific Exercise, in a major sign of tension between the U.S. and Chinese militaries.

Former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo revealed Tuesday on Fox News that he was approached in May 2016 with an offer for Hillary Clinton-related emails from a former U.S. government contractor.

Stone criticized the president’s decision to allow the Justice Department’s inspector general to look into whether there was political influence in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.