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Esper secures troops after NYT report on Russian rewards

United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in a statement Tuesday night that while the Pentagon “has no corroborating evidence” to back up last week’s explosive report that the Russian military was offering rewards of Taliban-linked militants to kill US troops will continue to make sure that any potential …

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Court: foiling the Congressional ethics office is not a crime

However, after the trial, United States District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed the most serious sentence for obstruction of Congress. On federal prosecutors’ objections, Sullivan argued that the obstruction statute does not apply to congressional entities that do not do their work under the control of congressional committees. A panel …

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