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An ongoing government review of the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has focused on recently departed FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's role near the end of the 2016 campaign, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

A government watchdog is assessing allegations of retaliation against State Department employees after CNN reported last week that multiple staffers had retained attorneys to represent them over concerns they had been assigned to low-level jobs because of their involvement in executing policies that are unpopular with the current administration.

President Donald Trump has told aides he wants a memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools released as quickly as possible, two people familiar with the matter says, but has decided against doing so before the State of the Union address to avoid obscuring what the White House hopes will be a unifying message.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-Louisiana, said Tuesday that some members of the Congressional Black Caucus will boycott President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, while others "will stare racism in the face" by attending the speech.

Like their Democratic counterparts, the Republican women of the US House of Representatives are coordinating their outfits to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

A minority of the Supreme Court is expected to attend President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night, sitting together in their judicial robes near the front of the chamber and attempting to abstain from the partisan nature of the event.  

First lady Melania Trump is poised to make her first public appearance in weeks on Tuesday evening, riding by motorcade from the White House to the Capitol, where she will attend her husband's State of the Union address.

Rep. Paul Gosar said he requested that US Capitol Police arrest undocumented immigrants attending President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Hispanic Democrats on Tuesday had a combination venting and strategy session with Democratic congressional leaders as they expressed frustration that there still has not been a resolution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday before Congress follows a year of growing pains as the new White House has learned how to work with the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday disputed claims that the Trump administration punted on moving forward with fresh sanctions against Russia over its interference in the 2016 US election.

There will be a tendency before, during and after President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night to look at the speech as a sort of blueprint for how his next year in office will play out.

Todd Ricketts is set to become finance chairman for the Republican National Committee, after casino magnate Steve Wynn resigned his position last week in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Tuesday that he has no recollection of stinging remarks he made back in 2016 when he argued that Donald Trump would use executive power "in a way that is truly unconstitutional" and would be "more abusive" to the Constitution than President Barack Obama.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urged her party to allow the focus to be on President Donald Trump at his first official State of the Union address, saying, "let the attention be on his slobbering self," according to a Democratic source who attended the closed door-caucus meeting.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday that the United States "remains as concerned today as at the outset" of the ongoing eight-month dispute between Qatar and other Gulf state nations.

The Trump administration has declined to impose sanctions against companies and foreign countries doing business with blacklisted Russian defense and intelligence entities.

House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters Tuesday he is in favor of the public release of a memo, which alleges the FBI abused its surveillance tools, but said he is telling GOP House members that there needs to be separation between those allegations and the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The House Intelligence Committee could vote as early as Monday evening to publicly release the Republican memo alleging abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.