Ryan Zinke is leaving weeks before Democrats take control of the House, a shift in power that promised to intensify probes into his conduct. He denies wrongdoing.
The filing from special counsel Robert Mueller comes four days before Flynn gets sentenced on a charge of lying to the FBI about his conversations with the then-Russian ambassador to the United States.
Reince Priebus, the once-powerful chairman of the Republican National Committee before he joined the Trump administration in 2017, was picked by a Navy selection board to receive a direct commission as a human resources officer in the Navy Reserve.
The Associated Press drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how in the wake of sanctions on Iran a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten tried to break into the emails of U.S. Treasury officials, as well as atomic scientists, civil society figures and think tank employees.
Earlier in the day, Russia and Ukraine traded accusations over a separate incident involving the same vessels, prompting Moscow to block passage through the narrow Kerch Strait, which separates the peninsula from the Russian mainland.
The clash between the world’s two biggest economies is shaking the bedrock of regional amity and leaving some countries worried they will be forced to choose between Beijing and Washington.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has cited Villa's 1916 raid of Columbus as an example of why President Donald Trump was deploying active-duty troops along the U.S.-Mexico border.