In a filing late Thursday night, lawyers for former President Donald Trump breathed new life into the election subversion case linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, arguing that Trump’s alleged pressure campaign on former Vice President Mike Pence would qualify as official conduct and is protected by “absolute” immunity. They also alleged that special … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. Indictments announced Thursday allege that Dimitri Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car and driver … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the Plaza Hotel in New York, Sept. 19, 2016. Dominick Reuter | AFP | Getty Images Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked former President Donald Trump to show proof that he never received any money from Egypt, following a recent … Read more
If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the last several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep up not only at your building but at others throughout the city, seemingly in lockstep. A new civil lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice today alleges that … Read more
In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent. According to a new lawsuit filed by US authorities, TikTok immediately breached that order and now faces penalties of $51,744 per violation per day. TikTok “knowingly allowed … Read more
The appeal, filed in the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday, argues against Cannon’s conclusion that Smith’s appointment by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute Trump is unconstitutional because it did not go through Congress. Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, also claimed that Smith’s office was improperly funded by the Justice Department. Peter … Read more
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) will move within days to force a vote on having the House sergeant-at-arms forcibly bring Attorney General Merrick Garland before the House by holding him in “inherent contempt” over his refusal to turn over audio of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Luna sent a letter to her … Read more
(NewsNation) — A U.S. appeals court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this fall over challenges to a law that would ban TikTok in the United States if ByteDance, its China-based parent company, fails to divest from it. Under a law signed by President Joe Biden in April as part of a larger foreign aid … Read more
WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department said Friday it wouldn’t prosecute U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for not giving lawmakers audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel. House Republicans approved a contempt of Congress citation against Garland for allegedly defying their subpoena, but the department said in a letter to House Speaker Mike … Read more
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice Building on March 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Department of Justice blasted House Republicans for spreading the “completely baseless” claim that the federal agency was behind the New York hush money trial of former … Read more
