Documents released last week by the Justice Department about the mishandling of cell phones during the Mueller investigation indicated that a government iPhone issued to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page may not have been lost as the DOJ previously claimed.
The new materials came in response to a Freedom of...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump was quick to spike the ball in celebration when the Big Ten announced the return of fall football at colleges clustered in some of the Midwest battleground states critical to his reelection effort.
“I'm the one who got football back,” he said.
Trumps efforts to reverse...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration has agreed to provide in-person briefings on threats to the November election to key members of Congress, backing down from a decision last month to provide that information only in writing.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced the change in policy after Democrats apparently...
(Headline USA) Judges dramatically reduced bail amounts as high as $1 million Thursday that had been set this week for several people accused of crimes during riots in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that included protests and vandalism to public buildings.
Bail for nine of 13 defendants was lowered, in several cases so they...
(Headline USA) Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party's presidential candidate off the November ballot.
The state Supreme Court, which has a...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department explored whether it could pursue either criminal or civil rights charges against city officials in Portland, Oregon after clashes erupted there night after night between law enforcement and rioters, a department spokesperson said Thursday.
The revelation that federal officials researched whether they could levy criminal or...
(Headline USA) A week after a three-judge panel blocked an order from President Donald Trump seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets, the Trump administration on Wednesday gave notice it intends to appeal.
It wasn't immediately clear...
(Headline USA) Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters" in their pursuit of prominent targets and for using the weight of the criminal justice system to launch what he said were “ill-conceived” political probes.
The comments at a...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden is resisting calls from President Donald Trump and even some fellow Democrats to release his list of potential Supreme Court picks seven months after he pledged to name the first black female justice.
Some on the left suggest that outlining potential picks would help Biden build enthusiasm...
(Headline USA) In a private call with federal prosecutors across the country, Attorney General William Barr’s message was clear: Aggressively go after violent rioters.
Barr pushed his U.S. attorneys to bring federal charges whenever they could, keeping a grip on cases even if a defendant could be tried instead in state...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump parachuted into the coronavirus aid debate Wednesday, upbraiding his Republican allies for proposing too small of a relief package and encouraging both parties in Congress to go for a bigger one that would include his priority of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans.
But his top...
(Headline USA) A Trump health appointee is taking a leave of absence after allegations of political interference in the federal coronavirus response, followed by a personal video that warned of election violence.
Michael Caputo has decided to take 60 days “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,”...