Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador is praising an announcement from the Trump Administration that it will drop the cap on refugees admitted to the United States next year to 45,000, even lower than the 50,000 that Labrador and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte proposed in legislation…
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch’s name is being bandied about in Washington, D.C. today as the possible next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with current Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., announcing yesterday that he won’t seek re-election, and the other leading candidate for the post...
An Idaho state prison inmate with a long record of attacking prison guards has been convicted of mailing death threats to a Washington state judge, and sentenced to a federal prison term after he leaves state custody. Brian Ray McClure, 55, pleaded guilty to mailing letters to King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers, threatening the judge...
A military judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors trying Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl don't have to turn over more information about conversations one of them had with the Trump administration about the case. Prosecutors have acknowledged that one of them spoke to a lawyer for the National Security Council earlier this year about defense efforts...
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