Opinion | Pardons and Paybacks Are Trump’s Two Modes of Justice
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Opinion | Pardons and Paybacks Are Trump’s Two Modes of Justice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived slight and accuses his targets of what he has done himself. In his second term, that approach has bled into the law, with perilous…

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….

Trump Pulled 0 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.
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Trump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a pall over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. The schools, a mix that includes both public universities and Ivy League institutions, have been…

Justice Department Accuses Adams Prosecutors of Politicking and Hypocrisy
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Justice Department Accuses Adams Prosecutors of Politicking and Hypocrisy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Top Justice Department officials issued an extraordinary attack on Friday on the Manhattan prosecutors who brought the federal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, releasing a selection of their internal messages in a further attempt to discredit the case. The…

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…

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 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,…

Opinion | Trump Has the Same Idea in Mind for Ukraine and the Department of Justice
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Opinion | Trump Has the Same Idea in Mind for Ukraine and the Department of Justice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I grew up a Reagan Republican in the middle of the Cold War, and I never thought I’d see the day when the president of the United States became the world’s most prominent and effective Russian propagandist. Yet that’s exactly what happened last…

World Anti-Doping Agency Drops Defamation and Ethics Cases Against U.S. Officials
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World Anti-Doping Agency Drops Defamation and Ethics Cases Against U.S. Officials

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The World Anti-Doping Agency has dropped a defamation lawsuit against its American counterpart, a major retreat for the agency after nearly a year of escalating conflict over its handling of positive tests for a banned drug by 23 elite Chinese swimmers. The decision…

4 Takeaways From the Hearing on Dismissing Charges Against Eric Adams
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4 Takeaways From the Hearing on Dismissing Charges Against Eric Adams

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge on Wednesday afternoon questioned Mayor Eric Adams of New York, Mr. Adams’s lawyer and a top Justice Department official over the department’s decision to seek the dismissal of corruption charges against Mr. Adams. It was the latest episode in a…