White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors
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White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two longtime career prosecutors have been suddenly fired by the White House, in what current and former Justice Department officials called an unusual and alarming exercise of presidential power. In recent days, the prosecutors, in Los Angeles and Memphis, were dismissed abruptly, notified…

Path to a Trump Pardon: Devon Archer, a Biden Loyalist, Goes ‘Full MAGA’
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Path to a Trump Pardon: Devon Archer, a Biden Loyalist, Goes ‘Full MAGA’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In the weeks before the 2020 election, Devon Archer was on the precipice of publicly turning against the Bidens after years of remaining silent. He held previously unreported phone calls with a well-connected ally of President Trump. The ally suggested that the Trump…

How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere
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How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. convened democracy summits at the White House in 2021 and 2023, he pointedly disinvited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a man he had once described an “autocrat” who deserved to be driven from office by voters….

Opinion | ‘Of Course People Are Angry’: Four Columnists Unpack What the Democrats Are Missing
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Opinion | ‘Of Course People Are Angry’: Four Columnists Unpack What the Democrats Are Missing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Gessen: All of the above. But that wouldn’t be enough. A lot of what you are asking about, Patrick, is already happening. There are protests — Erica Chenoweth, a very interesting political scientist who studies nonviolence, has shown that there are many more…

Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him
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Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As far as the Trump administration is concerned, there are government secrets and then there are government secrets. Details sought by a federal court about a military flight of immigrants that landed many days ago with video cameras recording its arrival? Sorry, judge,…

Supreme Court Upholds Biden Administration’s Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’
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Supreme Court Upholds Biden Administration’s Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld federal restrictions aimed at curtailing access to kits that can be easily assembled into homemade, nearly untraceable firearms. In a 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, one of the court’s conservatives, the justices left in…

Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections
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Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Immigrant rights lawyers on Monday will urge a federal judge in San Francisco to delay two decisions by the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that would prevent migrants from Venezuela from staying in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status program. The…

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More
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Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s revenge tour continues. Late Friday night, he issued a memo rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden…

Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution
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Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Foreign defendants brought to the United States almost never face capital punishment, no matter how grave the allegations against them. But when a notorious drug lord arrived from Mexico in Brooklyn federal court last month on charges that included killing a federal agent,…

Trump’s Ending of Hunter Biden’s Security Detail Raises Questions About Who Gets Protection
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Trump’s Ending of Hunter Biden’s Security Detail Raises Questions About Who Gets Protection

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Former Vice President Kamala Harris has Secret Service protection, at least for a few more months. Chelsea Clinton does not have a Secret Service detail anymore, though her father, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, do. All of President Trump’s…