John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
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John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism in a time of crisis, by founding The Texas Tribune, a seminal regional nonprofit news organization, and the American Journalism Project, which…

Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech Shows a Renewed Quest for Vengeance
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Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech Shows a Renewed Quest for Vengeance

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Presidents and prosecutors have for generations appeared in the Great Hall of the Justice Department to announce important anti-crime initiatives or to offer plaudits for the fundamental tenet of the rule of law, while maintaining distance from the detailed workings of the department…

Trump’s Revenge on Law Firms Seen as Undermining Justice System
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Trump’s Revenge on Law Firms Seen as Undermining Justice System

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s retribution campaign against law firms, legal experts and analysts say, is undermining a central tenet of the American legal system — the right to a lawyer to argue vigorously on one’s behalf. With the stroke of a pen last week, Mr….

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…

Trump Says He Would Have Had a ‘Very Nasty Life’ if He’d Lost the Election
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Trump Says He Would Have Had a ‘Very Nasty Life’ if He’d Lost the Election

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump said Wednesday he would have had a “very nasty life” if he lost the presidential election, a surprisingly public acknowledgment that his legal challenges could have consumed his life and brought jail time. “If I lost, it would have been very…

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…