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Dan Boylan

dboylan@washingtontimes.com

Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, joined at right by Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, takes questions at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. In a Monday letter to the Department of Justice inspector general, Meadows and Jordan are asking for a review of allegations that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to subpoena phone records and documents from a House Intelligence Committee staffer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Meadows softens push to impeach Rosenstein after talks with GOP Leadership

A day after filing articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows said he would pursue less serious contempt charges, slightly lowering the temperature in a clash with the Department of Justice over access conservative lawmakers are demanding to records on the probes into Russian election-meddling and Hillary Clinton's secret emails.

July 26, 2018
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Friday, July 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rod Rosenstein impeachment articles introduced by GOP lawmakers

Conservative House lawmakers introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday, saying he's led the Justice Department in "hiding" information from Congress on investigations into Russian election meddling and Hillary Clinton's secret emails.

July 25, 2018
Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the 2020 Census, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Election meddling, local issues clash before the House Oversight committee

House Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to force national intelligence chief Dan Coats to testify on the Russian election-hacking threat, while a bipartisan duo of Senators say 12 Russian intelligence officers indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for meddling in 2016 could soon face stiff U.S. financial sanctions.

July 24, 2018
The attacks on Finnish internet-connected devices originating from ChinaNet, began spiking July 12, four days before President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki, according to analysis from the Seattle-based cybersecurity firm F5. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Chinese hackers struck days before Helsinki summit

Chinese hackers launched a massive attack on internet-connected devices in Finland in an attempt to sweep up audio and visual intelligence ahead of President Trump's summit there with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a private cyber analysis released Thursday.

July 19, 2018
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2018 File, photo, a neon sign hanging in the window of Healthy Harvest Indoor Gardening in Hillsboro, Ore., shows that the business accepts bitcoin as payment. The Wisconsin Ethics Commission is considering a policy guiding what to do about political contributions made in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is gaining in popularity as a type of privately issued digital money. The Wisconsin Ethics Commission is holding a hearing Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in response to February request from the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin for public input and a policy on the use of campaigns accepting cryptocurrencies and making payments with them.(AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus File)

Capitol Hill lawmakers wrestle with regulating cryptocurrencies

Lawmakers have expressed mounting concern over the ever-expanding and still almost completely unregulated world of cryptocurrencies, from tax issues to preventing them from causing anarchy to simply tying the digital dollars into the world's mainstream banking system.

July 18, 2018
Rep. Mac Thornberry, Texas Republican and then-chairman of the Armed Services Committee, attends a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Federal trade groups seek security clearance backlog reform

Washington's leading federal government trade groups, whose members fill some of America's most sensitive jobs, are urging congressional leaders to cooperate on competing proposals aimed at speeding up the nation's dismally backlogged security clearance process.

July 16, 2018
Escorted by one of his armed security guards, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, right, waves to a crowd of party faithful during a march for peace, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 7, 2018. According to Nicaraguan human rights groups more than 300 persons have been killed since ant-government protests started more than two months ago. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

U.S. may place sanctions against Nicaragua

U.S. officials hinted Thursday that new sanctions and support for opposition groups could be coming against the government of longtime leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in the wake of the government's brutal repression of anti-government protests.

July 12, 2018
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Capitol Hill lawmakers press software firms over election security, meddling fears

Lawmakers blasted the country's top voting equipment vendors for not doing enough to assure ballot box security this midterm election cycle on the same day a top Homeland Security official told a House panel Russian hackers do not appear to be "tampering" with U.S. election infrastructure this year as intensively as they did in 2016.

July 11, 2018