Iranian drones used by Russia against Ukraine seeing 'numerous failures,' Biden official says
Iran has sent its first shipment of drones to Russia that Moscow aims to use in attacks against Ukraine, according to a Biden administration official who said U.S. intelligence indicates the drones have already seen "numerous failures." The U.S. believes that Iran transferred Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series drones to Russia earlier this month on a Russian flight between the two countries, according to the administration official. The White House
Read MoreWalker holds razor-thin lead on Warnock in latest Georgia Senate race: poll
Georgia Republican candidate Herschel Walker holds a thin, 2-point lead in his race against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) for a seat in the upper chamber, according to a poll released Tuesday. An Emerson College poll found Walker in the lead with 46 percent support compared to Warnock’s 44 percent support among “very likely general election voters” in Georgia who res
Read MoreLast surviving member of The Monkees is suing the FBI
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Read MoreGarland bans political DOJ appointees from participating in campaign events
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday banned political appointees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) from participating in campaign events in any form, changing a longstanding agency policy. “We must do all we can to maintain public trust and ensure that politics — both in fact and appearance — does not compromise or affect the integrity of our work,” Garland wrote in a memo to DOJ employees. Previous policy allowed political appointees to sometimes attend partisan events in their personal capacit
Read MoreAppeals court rules two Trump administration Gulf lease sales unlawful
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled two Trump-era Interior Department oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico were unlawful. In the ruling, Judge Gregory C. Katsas of the D.C. Court of Appeals found the department in 2018 leased more than 150 million acres for oil exploration without properly analyzing the risk under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The lease sales, 250 and 251, were among 11 proposed by the Department in its 2017 five-year plan. In a lawsuit following the sales, a coalition of environmental groups argued the Trump administration’s eva
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