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…

LA Times columnist resigns over ‘curried favor’ with Trump: ‘Shameful capitulation’
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LA Times columnist resigns over ‘curried favor’ with Trump: ‘Shameful capitulation’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Harry Litman, the latest opinion columnist to resign from the Los Angeles Times, slammed the paper’s owner Patrick Soon-Shiong for allegedly “currying favor” with President-elect Donald Trump in a “shameful capitulation.” The longtime senior legal columnist, who wrote for the LA Times for…