MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who led an anti-immigration protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday, just as Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the state. Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post X days after protesters, during Sunday … Read more
Two staffers from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency team at the Social Security Administration secretly contacted a right-wing advocacy group trying to “overturn the election results,” according to the Justice Department. A court filing in a long-running lawsuit targeting DOGE’s Social Security efforts reveals that at least one DOGE employee signed an agreement … Read more
U.S. stock futures added to losses early Monday amid concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence after Chairman Jerome Powell said the Trump administration threatened him with criminal indictment. Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) futures fell 0.6%, while those on the S&P 500 (ES=F) fell about 0.8%. Contracts on the Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) led the way … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately release her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts in her sex-trafficking case has put the spotlight back on the victims whose accusations helped land her behind bars. The release of the transcripts as part of the … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Monday chided Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential names of victims in court papers seeking to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said the evidence included in Maxwell’s habeas petition — which she filed … Read more
(Evan Vucci/The Associated Press) The Department of Justice is now involved in an open cover-up conducted in direct violation of federal law. Over the weekend, the department quietly removed 16 photos from the Epstein files website it created to comply with a disclosure statute passed by Congress and signed by the president. Donald Trump. The … Read more
The Justice Department’s long-awaited release of records related to Jeffrey Epstein came in a flurry of documents that did little to quell the long-running intrigue, largely because some of the most important records were nowhere to be found. The initial disclosures, which run into tens of thousands of pages, offer little new insight into Epstein’s … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Luigi Mangione say Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was influenced by her previous work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before … Read more
MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve attorney detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month after granting asylum at a high rate that falls short of the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, The Associated Press has learned. Christopher Day began hearing cases in late October as a temporary judge at … Read more
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Alina Habba, who his administration maneuvered to keep as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, is disqualified from that role, an appeals court said Monday. A panel of judges from the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Philadelphia, joined a lower court … Read more