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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address at 2019 National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Orlando, FL. Watch Pompeo's interview on 'Fox & Friends' here: https://youtu.be/Es6oi3KCAzs #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. will deny Iran resources needed to obtain a nuclear weapon. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will deliver remarks on the 2018 annual report on International Religious Freedom (IRF). FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was preparing to leave his country, but was talked out of it by Russia. #CNN #News

The Kremlin says there is no evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; Rich Edson reports from the State Department. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo host event in Washington, D.C. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer…

John Bazemore/Associated Press The House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating allegations of voter suppression in Georgia under Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who has since become governor. The letters instructed Mr. Kemp and Mr. Raffensperger — both Republicans — to provide by March 20 a wide range of documents concerning voter roll purges; holds placed on voter registration applications; polling site changes and closings; and other voting-related issues. The committee also requested all documents related to the potential conflict of interest Mr. Kemp faced in administering an election in which he was a candidate. [Make sense of the people, issues and ideas shaping American politics with our newsletter.] The letter outlined several points of scrutiny during the 2018 governor’s race, in which Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, posed a strong challenge to Mr. Kemp in a normally solidly Republican state. Mr. Kemp’s office purged more than 1.4 million voters from the rolls during his tenure. And county and state officials closed more than 200 polling places from 2012 to 2018. Asked for comment on Wednesday, his spokesman directed The Times to video of a news conference where Mr. Kemp suggested that the investigation was a politically motivated distraction from more important issues. “They need to quit playing politics up there,” Mr. Kemp said at the news conference, before pivoting to an attack on House Democrats for giving billions of dollars in disaster aid to Puerto Rico “when we have our own farmers that are fixing to lose their farm.” He said nothing about the substance of the allegations or the document requests, and his spokesman did not respond to a follow-up email. Mr. Raffensperger, the current secretary of state, said that he had received his own letter and that his office “looks forward to an open dialogue and a thorough process.” Mr. Cummings and Mr. Raskin, the Democratic committee leaders, were not immediately available for interviews on Wednesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Trump’s suspension of a 32-year-old nuclear arms treaty with Russia on Friday as dangerous and irresponsible, and warned it could prompt a new arms race. Pompeo said that if Russia isn’t abiding by the treaty, then neither will the U.S., starting a six-month countdown until the agreement officially ends. But Pelosi, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee before she became speaker for the first time a dozen years ago, said the administration should have tried to work through its differences with Russia before moving to kill the treaty. But to throw it out like that is a gift to Vladimir Putin.” Pelosi’s fear is that, freed of having to even appear to abide by the treaty, Putin will embark on an arms race in which Russia will put missiles even closer to NATO nations. “What do the Russians have on the president politically, financially or personally that he is their handmaiden?” Pelosi said. She also expressed concern about Friday’s move in light of a U.S. intelligence threat assessment that Russia and China “are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s.” The assessment said Russia and China are growing stronger “across all domains,” including in their quest for “technological and military superiority.” Pelosi said she is concerned that Trump is ignoring what intelligence agencies are reporting about Russia and other U.S. adversaries. He doesn’t have to know the facts, so he doesn’t have to act upon them.” Asked by reporters at the White House about Pelosi’s concerns about an arms race, Trump said, “Honestly, I don’t think she has a clue, I really don’t. She doesn’t know and I wish she did because she’s running this country so badly. Trump told the New York Times in an interview posted late Thursday that “if she doesn’t approve a wall,” congressional negotiations about border security are “just a waste of money and time and energy.” Having failed to get Democrats to give him money for a wall during the 35-day partial shutdown of the government, Trump is now broadly hinting that he’ll try to secure funding by declaring a national emergency on the southern border. Pelosi told The Chronicle that the president’s comments were “classic Trump ... by projecting his own shortcomings in terms of this wall discussion onto me.” “The president’s comments are par for the course for him.