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Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that a criminal referral from the January 6 House Select Committee was not necessary because the Department of Justice is going after former President Donald Trump “pretty hard.” Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “President Biden said yesterday the committee made an overwhelming case. Should we be expecting a criminal referral?

Los Angeles County has paid private lawyers nearly $13,000 to pursue $1,004 in debt owed by a Compton woman for time her 16-year-old granddaughter was held in a juvenile probation camp, officials acknowledged today. The debt was still being pursued this week, county counsel said, despite a moratorium on such billing declared last month. The moratorium was called by probation chief Robert Taylor after The Times and children’s advocates raised serious questions about his department’s billing practices. The disclosure that the county already had spent nearly 13 times the actual debt owed came at today’s Board of Supervisors meeting as...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 19 — Saying he still believes that the United States is safer than it was on Sept. 11, Rudolph W. Giuliani on Thursday nevertheless criticized the way the Bush Administration pursued Al Qaeda and suggested that the United States failed to put enough pressure on Pakistan to pursue terrorists. In two interviews while campaigning in Iowa, Mr. Giuliani discussed the National Intelligence Estimate released Tuesday by the White House, which found that a hands-off approach by Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, toward Pakistan’s tribal areas had set the stage for Al Qaeda’s resurgence. “Did we not...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. scientist who toured North Korea's reactors shortly before the country agreed to abandon its nuclear program said Tuesday he believes Pyongyang is still aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons. Siegfried Hecker, a senior fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was given a rare inside look at apparent plutonium production by North Korean scientists in August, one month before negotiators from six nations reached their agreement. Talks are to start Wednesday on how to implement the September deal. Based on what Hecker saw and was told during the visits, the nuclear scientist said North Korea...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert, the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters. The US administration has agreed to pare back its nuclear arsenal from about 10,000 warheads today to about 6,000 in 2012 under the Moscow Treaty reached with Russia in 2001. But even as it moves to retire much of its Cold War arsenal, it has pressed a reluctant Congress for funds for nuclear bunker-buster studies, refurbished nuclear testing...