US President Donald Trump has ordered the release of files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, sparking concerns
The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a confirmation vote on Tuesday on John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA Director, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.
The move follows President Donald Trump's executive order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," which states that "it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female."
Five days after assuming the White House, President Donald Trump is racking up a number of wins and losses after issuing a flurry of executive orders. On Friday, he travels to disaster-hit states of North Carolina and California while new developments play out over his immigration policy and cabinet confirmations.
President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the first trip of his second administration to tour areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters.
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
The Senate recently confirmed John Ratcliffe as the CIA director, marking President Donald Trump's second Cabinet member in his new administration.
The new president repeated criticisms of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) while on a separate tour in North Carolina.
The King family has released a statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying records related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States has been sharing secret intelligence on threats from the Islamic State with the new government in Syria, which is itself run by leaders of a militant group long considered by Washington to be a terrorist organization, according to multiple current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges.