Tue Jun 20, 2017 AT 2:03 PM EDT
Federal investigators probing the lobbying work of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn are examining the role of Bijan Kian, Flynn’s former business partner, according to an FBI interviewee, reports Reuters. Investigators are also looking at whether payments from foreign clients to Flynn and his company, the now-inactive Flynn Intel Group, were lawful, according to two separate sources with knowledge of the inquiry into Flynn’s business activities.
- The Hill: US Shoots Down Pro-Assad Drone in Syria
- WashTimes: New Study Supports Trump: 5.7 Million Noncitizens May Have Cast Illegal Votes
- Daily Caller: Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
- The Hill: No. 2 Senate Republican: We’re Going to Have 50 Votes on Obamacare Repeal
- AP: US Coroner Investigating Death of Student Freed From N Korea
Mon Jun 19, 2017 AT 1:06 PM EDT
Russia on Monday said it will treat U.S. or coalition aircraft that fly over any of its operating areas in western Syria as targets, after a U.S. F/A-18 Super Hornet downed a Syrian bomber a day earlier, reports The Washington Examiner. “Any aircraft, including planes and drones of the international coalition, detected in the operation areas west of the Euphrates River by the Russian air forces will be followed by Russian ground-based air defense and air defense aircraft as air targets,” according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement.
- Engadget: Senate Alters Sanctions to Allow Use of Russian Rocket Engines
- WashExaminer: Supreme Court Rules Disparagement Provision in Trademark Law Violates First Amendment
- Engadget: Google Bets AI and Human Oversight Will Curb Online Extremism
- Politico: Supreme Court to Hear Partisan Gerrymandering Case
- Free Beacon: US Quietly Admits Covert CIA Role in Iranian Coup
Fri Jun 16, 2017 AT 2:26 PM EDT
The senior Justice Department official with ultimate authority over the special counsel’s probe of Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election has privately acknowledged to colleagues that he may have to recuse himself from the matter, which he took charge of only after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ own recusal, sources tell ABC News.
- AP: APNewsBreak: About 4,000 More US Troops to Go to Afghanistan
- Free Beacon: Chuck Schumer Teams with Ted Cruz to Demand Moving Israel Embassy to Jerusalem
- Daily Beast: Megyn Kelly Exposed by Alex Jones in Leaked Audio Recordings
- WashExaminer: Obama Era-Bureaucrats ‘Waiting Trump Out,’ Block IRS, Fast and Furious Probes
- Daily Caller: Trump Admin Rescinds DAPA Amnesty Program
