Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge
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Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration plans to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents involved in Jan. 6 investigations, setting the stage for a possible purge that goes far beyond the bureau’s leaders to target rank-and-file agents, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter….

Prosecutors Move to Drop Classified Documents Case Against Trump’s Co-Defendants
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Prosecutors Move to Drop Classified Documents Case Against Trump’s Co-Defendants

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Federal prosecutors moved on Wednesday to drop their last remaining efforts to prosecute President Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case brought by the former special counsel Jack Smith. In a single-page filing, prosecutors asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to…

Trump’s Targets Fear ‘Retribution’ He Promised in Second Presidency
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Trump’s Targets Fear ‘Retribution’ He Promised in Second Presidency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As Donald J. Trump returns to office, the critics, prosecutors and perceived enemies who sought to hold him accountable and banish him from American political life are now facing, with considerable trepidation, a president who is assuming power having vowed to exact vengeance….

Canada Readies Billions of Dollars in Retaliatory Moves to Trump Tariff Threat
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Canada Readies Billions of Dollars in Retaliatory Moves to Trump Tariff Threat

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Canadian government is preparing billions of dollars in retaliatory measures on U.S. exports to Canada if President-elect Donald J. Trump makes good on a threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, setting up a potential showdown between two countries that are each…

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case
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Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald J. Trump on charges of seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released early Tuesday morning that he believed the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr….

Special Counsel Report on Hunter Biden Denounces President’s Criticism of Case
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Special Counsel Report on Hunter Biden Denounces President’s Criticism of Case

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines David C. Weiss, the special counsel who spent years investigating Hunter Biden, criticized President Biden for making “baseless accusations” about his inquiry that threatened “the integrity of the justice system as a whole” in a final report made public on Monday. “The president’s…

Judge Allows Release of Half of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Cases
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Judge Allows Release of Half of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Cases

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge in Florida cleared the way on Monday for the Justice Department to soon release a portion of a report written by the special counsel, Jack Smith, detailing the decisions he made in charging President-elect Donald J. Trump with plotting to…

Jack Smith, Who Led Prosecutions of Trump, Resigns
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Jack Smith, Who Led Prosecutions of Trump, Resigns

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two unsuccessful federal prosecutions against President-elect Donald J. Trump, resigned his post this week, according to an announcement buried in the footnote of a legal filing. Mr. Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor who lost a…

Appeals Court Declines to Block Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump Cases
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Appeals Court Declines to Block Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump Cases

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations he conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump. In a brief and unsigned order,…