Ex-Special Counsel Robert Hur testified on Tuesday that he "did not exonerate" President Biden in his report detailing the investigation into mishandling of classified records‚ repeatedly shutting down Democratic lawmakers’ characterizations. Hur‚ who resigned as special counsel after releasing his report which found Biden willfully retained classified records but did not bring charges against him‚ testified publicly Tuesday.  Democrats seized on the fact that Hur did not bring...

Five weeks after his report into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents exploded a political bombshell‚ former special counsel Robert Hur appeared at a hearing in Congress to explain and defend his work. Although Mr Hur declined to pursue a criminal case against Mr Biden or any of his associates‚ his report became a political lightning rod for how it depicted the president of the US. It characterised him as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory". It also cited instances of...

Republicans and Democrats were somewhat unsure what to do Tuesday with former special counsel Robert K. Hur‚ the man who declined to accuse President Biden of criminally retaining classified documents while also highlighting Biden’s memory problems. A case in point: A Democratic congressman accused Hur of using his report to “trash and smear” Biden and to help Donald Trump‚ even as a Republican pilloried him as “part of the Praetorian Guard that guards the swamp out here in Washington‚ D.C...

The Uvalde police chief who was on vacation during the Robb Elementary School shooting submitted his resignation Tuesday‚ less than a week after a report ordered by the city defended the department’s response to the attack but outraged some family members of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed. Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez was vacationing in Arizona when a teenage gunman entered a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde with an AR-style rifle on May 24‚ 2022. In his resignation...

Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado‚ a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times‚ announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave‚ telling CNN’s Dana Bash‚ “It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress and having talked to former members‚ it’s the worst year in 40‚ 50 years to be in Congress. But I’m leaving because I think...

The Biden administration announced a new $300 million military assistance package for Ukraine on Tuesday. Why it matters: The latest tranche of aid comes as Congress continues to drag its feet on passing a new foreign aid package that would include fresh assistance for Ukraine. State of play: The new package includes $300 million in weapons and equipment that will "address some of Ukraine's pressing needs‚" White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at a press briefing...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned that known or suspected terrorists who use fake identification after crossing the southern border is "a big concern" for the national intelligence community. Wray made the remarks Tuesday in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence‚ as part of its 2024 Annual Threat Assessment hearing with the U.S. intelligence community. Wray was joined by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines; CIA Director William Burns; General...