Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
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Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that the actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump’s, should have his gun rights restored, according to the attorney and others familiar with the situation. Elizabeth G….

Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk
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Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potentially scores of Russian diplomats into the United States after years of expulsions. But the good-will gesture, which would be reciprocated by Moscow, could be…

F.B.I. Returns Materials Taken From Mar-a-Lago to Trump
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F.B.I. Returns Materials Taken From Mar-a-Lago to Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The F.B.I. on Friday gave President Trump the boxes of materials the bureau had seized during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2022, the White House announced. Files that investigators said contained classified material were among the thousands of items…

Office Closures and Relocations Part of Trump’s Plan for Large-Scale Layoffs
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Office Closures and Relocations Part of Trump’s Plan for Large-Scale Layoffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration has moved into its next push and most aggressive yet to drastically overhaul the federal bureaucracy, demanding that agencies produce plans for large work force cuts that involve closing offices and relocating employees outside the Washington region. Agencies have been…

‘Epstein Files’ Release, Hyped by Pam Bondi, Falls Short of Expectations
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‘Epstein Files’ Release, Hyped by Pam Bondi, Falls Short of Expectations

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For days, Attorney General Pam Bondi had talked about releasing the “Epstein files,” supposedly secret documents the federal government has on some of the powerful men who were in the orbit of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. But the roughly 200 pages of…

Emil Bove, Justice Dept.’s No. 2, Targets NY Office Where He Rose as a Prosecutor
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Emil Bove, Justice Dept.’s No. 2, Targets NY Office Where He Rose as a Prosecutor

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general, stood stone-faced and alone at the prosecution table inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan last week to do a job his onetime colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York…

Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary
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Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk’s monthlong rampage through the federal bureaucracy appears to have met its first real test, as some of President Trump’s top loyalists flatly reject the billionaire’s demand that their employees justify their jobs or be summarily fired. By Monday, just 48 hours…

Opinion | Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’
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Opinion | Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Bongino and Fox parted ways in 2023 — he says over a contract dispute. He continued to build influence on the right-wing video platform Rumble, a company he owns a lucrative piece of, which also hosts Steve Bannon, the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew…

Trump Announces Dan Bongino, a Right-Wing Commentator, as FBI Deputy Director
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Trump Announces Dan Bongino, a Right-Wing Commentator, as FBI Deputy Director

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Dan Bongino, a former New York City police officer and Secret Service agent turned right-wing pundit and podcaster, will be the next deputy director of the F.B.I., President Trump said on Sunday night. Mr. Trump, making the announcement on his social media site,…