White House Terminates Top Federal Prosecutors Amid Doj Fbi Purge
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More job cuts expected at Justice Department, FBI
Staff within the Justice Department and FBI are on edge and bracing for more firings due to the changes under the new Trump administration. CBS News Department of Justice correspondent Scott ...CBS News - Feb. 10 -
Durbin calls for investigation into Patel's role in FBI firings
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is asking the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general to investigate “highly credible information” that Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to head the FBI, is ...The Hill - Feb. 11 -
FBI finds thousands of documents related to JFK assassination
The FBI has discovered 2,400 new records related to former President Kennedy's 1963 assassination, the agency said Tuesday. The effort follows President Trump’s executive order declaring documents ...The Hill - 6d -
Senate panel approves Trump's FBI pick
Politico - 5d -
FBI to help police with Southport killer inquiry
Teams in the US are providing support as British police try to recover the killer's deleted searches.BBC News - 2d -
French prosecutors confirm how British couple died
Andrew and Dawn Searle, who moved to France from Scotland about 10 years ago, were found by a neighbour last week.BBC News - Feb. 11 -
A Rupture on the Right Over Prosecutors and the Rule of Law
Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in Thursday’s showdown in the Eric Adams case.The New York Times - 4d -
Hagan Scotten, Adams’s Lead Prosecutor, Quits Defiantly
Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a succession of federal prosecutors to quit.The New York Times - 4d -
Prosecutor: Killer was making a statement with post-Valentine's murder
Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick was attacked and killed by her ex-boyfriend-turned-stalker Gareth Pursehouse in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 2020.CBS News - 2d -
IRONMAN competitor reflects on lessons in life learned while racing against terminal cancer
Jonathan Pascual, an IRONMAN competitor battling stage four cancer, shares a heartfelt letter to his younger self.CBS News - 5d -
Eric Adams praises DOJ for dropping criminal charges
New York City Mayor Eric Adams applauded the decision by the Department of Justice to drop charges against him, including counts for bribery, conspiracy and campaign finance violations. CBS News' ...CBS News - Feb. 11 -
At least 20 immigration judges fired by DOJ
The Justice Department has fired 20 immigration judges as immigration courts deal with a reported backlog of about 4 million cases. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez ...CBS News - 1d -
FBI gives in to justice department demand for list of January 6 investigators
Agency submitted list, excluding names, of up to 6,000 agents involved in investigating 2021 Capitol attack. US politics live – latest updates The FBI has complied with a US justice ...The Guardian - Feb. 7 -
Trump’s FBI nominee Kash Patel under fire over Shein stake
Controversial official discloses stock in owner of Chinese fast-fashion retailer that has been accused of forced labourFinancial Times - Feb. 9 -
Potential mass layoffs at FBI as tensions run high during Trump era
President Trump said he intends to fire some FBI personnel who worked on the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot investigations. CBS News' Nicole Sgaga reports.CBS News - Feb. 10 -
Trump administration orders list of new FBI recruits, deepening fears of cuts
The Trump administration has asked the FBI for a list of probationary employees and individual justifications for keeping anyone who has been at the bureau for less than two years.NBC News - Feb. 11 -
Judge orders FBI to release some information in Trump documents case
Judge Beryl Howell issued a memorandum opinion on Monday.ABC News - Feb. 11 -
FBI says it found 2,400 new records related to JFK assassination
The FBI said Monday that it discovered roughly 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.CBS News - Feb. 11 -
Durbin accuses Patel of ordering FBI firings before his confirmation
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said he has "highly credible information" that Patel is behind the firings at the FBI, though he is not yet the FBI director.CBS News - Feb. 11 -
FBI says it has discovered 2,400 new records related to JFK assassination
The agency was transferring the records for declassification and did not say what information they contained. The FBI on Tuesday said it had discovered 2,400 new records related to the ...The Guardian - Feb. 11 -
Democrat accuses Trump FBI pick Kash Patel of secretly ordering firings
Sen. Dick Durbin accused Kash Patel, President Trump's pick for FBI director, of secretly orchestrating the firings of FBI officials.NBC News - Feb. 12 -
Senate panel advances Kash Patel bid to lead FBI
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of Kash Patel in a strict party-line vote, clearing the way for President Trump's pick to lead the FBI to get a vote on the full ...The Hill - 5d -
FBI assisting UK investigation into Southport killer Axel Rudakubana
US Department of Justice also involved in what are thought to be efforts to recover deleted internet search history. The FBI and the US Department of Justice have joined the investigation into the ...The Guardian - 2d -
MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’
Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist. The family of Martin Luther King Jr has expressed concern over Donald ...The Guardian - 2d -
Leonard Peltier released after Biden's commutation in FBI killings
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. For nearly half a century, Peltier's imprisonment has symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans ...CBS News - 8h -
Guns are not just for conservative white men
To build a better gun debate, we need to ground our arguments in the diverse reality of contemporary gun cultureThe Hill - Feb. 9 -
Read: House budget resolution
House Republicans on Wednesday released their budget resolution in an effort to advance President Trump's ambitious legislative agenda. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), the chair of the House Budget ...The Hill - 6d -
Ed Martin is the wrong person to investigate Biden-era prosecutors
Edward R. Martin, Jr., the newly-appointed interim United States attorney in Washington, D.C, has launched an investigation into whether his office, under Biden-era leadership, engaged in ...The Hill - Feb. 8 -
Austrian prosecutors accuse René Benko of embezzling tens of millions
Former billionaire property tycoon behind collapsed Signa group remains in pre-trial detentionFinancial Times - Feb. 9 -
Former prosecutor: Decision to drop charges against Eric Adams 'bizarre'
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin questioned the Justice Department’s abrupt decision to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams (D). “This is one of the most bizarre situations I ...The Hill - Feb. 11 -
US prosecutor in New York resigns after order to drop mayoral case
Departure of Danielle Sassoon comes after Trump administration ordered her office to abandon charges against Eric AdamsFinancial Times - 5d -
An Ambitious Prosecutor Quits Rather Than Do Trump’s Bidding
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, built a life on conservative values and amassed a daunting resume. On Thursday, she took a stand against the Justice Department where she had ...The New York Times - 5d -
Prosecutors see Islamic extremist motive in Munich car-ramming attack
Yahoo News - 4d -
Munich car attack believed to have had Islamist motive, says prosecutor
Gabriele Tilmann says suspect’s online communications point to extremism but investigators have found no links to jihadist groups. German police and prosecutors have said the Afghan suspect in a ...The Guardian - 4d -
Another Adams prosecutor quits, challenges Bove to find a 'fool' to drop case
Another prosecutor in the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has quit in light of the Justice Department directing the charges against him be dropped, daring Deputy Attorney General ...The Hill - 4d -
Justice Department struggles to find prosecutor willing to drop Eric Adams case
The number of resignations over the Justice Department's order to drop the charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is growing, and has delayed the DOJ's efforts to end the case. CBS News' ...CBS News - 4d -
Why Career Prosecutors Signed a Dismissal Request in Eric Adams Case
Lawyers in the Justice Department’s public integrity section came to believe that to save their jobs, one of them would have to sign the official request to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor ...The New York Times - 4d -
Judges Generally Let Prosecutors Drop Charges. Maybe Not for Adams.
Judge Dale E. Ho will weigh the request after the resignation of Manhattan’s U.S. attorney and her accusations of misconduct.The New York Times - 3d -
DOJ ordered review of ‘gender ideology’ compliance at child safety authority
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people ...NBC News - Feb. 7