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A group of senior Democratic senators want the Pentagon’s watchdog to look into President Trump’s potential acceptance of a $400 million luxury Boeing jet gifted by Qatar, and the Defense Department’s role in the transfer. The group of nine lawmakers, led by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), asked the inspector general of the Defense Department (DOD) to launch an inquiry into the department’s role in “facilitating and serving …
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Full StorySenate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday over her decision to deem President Trump’s potential acceptance of a luxury Qatari jet as a “legally permissible” gift.
Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, argued Bondi should have recused herself from that decision due to her past lobbying work for the Qatari government and that Congress should be the entity deciding whether the U.S. will accept such a gift.
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President Trump is in Qatar as part of his visit to the Middle East, with one more stop planned for the United Arab Emirates. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will give remarks before an informal two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey tomorrow. Rutte will also give a press conference at the end of the meeting. Russia has announced a delegation for tentative talks with Ukraine to end Moscow’s war in the country, set for tomorrow in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday lent some support to calls to suspend habeas corpus as part of the administration’s immigration … Read more
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