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FILE – Lindsey Halligan, special assistant to the president, speaks with a reporter outside of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump nominates White House aide to replace U.S. attorney who was forced out after failing to prosecute president’s adversaries

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Meg Kinnard, and others

FILE – Erik Siebert, interim U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, speaks as Attorney General Pam Bondi, right, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, left, listen during a news conference at the Manassas FBI Field Office, March 27, 2025, in Manassas, Va. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

U.S. attorney who failed to charge Trump adversary resigns under pressure from administration

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, and others

President Donald Trump from a downward angle stands with a straight face next to the American flag.

Trump crackdown on ‘radical left’ after Charlie Kirk’s death targets Soros, Indivisible despite evidence of lone shooter

By Chris Megerian, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Charlie Kirk

FBI releases photos of person of interest in the assassination of Charlie Kirk

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Charlie Kirk

Trump: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at a Utah college event

By The Associated Press, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others

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Sandwich-hurling protester in DC only charged with misdemeanor, disappointing Trump’s plans to make him a felon

By Alanna Durkin Richer and The Associated Press

Maxwell

White House releases Ghislaine Maxwell interview full of quotes denying Trump and Epstein links

By Eric Tucker, Michael R. Sisak, and others

FBI agents search civilian cars at a checkpoint near the White House in Washington, D.C.

DC’s attorney general says Trump’s police takeover is illegal and will ‘wreak operational havoc’ in the capital

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Ashraf Khalil, and others

Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi fires 37-year-old DOJ employee who threw a sub sandwich at a border patrol worker

By Michael Kunzelman, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump listens, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump administration seeks release of Epstein grand jury records—but not the Justice Department files his critics are demanding

By Alanna Durkin Richer and The Associated Press

Donald Trump

Trump sues Murdoch, Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter story, seeking $10 billion in damages

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Larry Neumeister, and others

A mugshot of Jeffrey Epstein, former financier and convicted sex offender, is seen on a television at the US Capitol in Washington, DC

Trump’s Epstein problems grow after report he sent a sexually suggestive letter to one-time friend for his 50th birthday

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

How Epstein’s ‘client list’ went from ‘sitting on my desk’ to something the DOJ says doesn’t exist

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 30: Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, delivers remarks during a press conference announcing the largest healthcare fraud case in history, at the U.S. Department of Justice on June 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Officials with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the results of the 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charging 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in connection with $6B in healthcare fraud across 51 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices. Galeotti was joined by Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz and HHS Acting Inspector General Juliet Hodgkins. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Inside Operation Gold Rush: How a transnational criminal network exploited the U.S. health care system out of $14.6 billion

By Alanna Durkin Richer and The Associated Press

This courtroom sketch depicts Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting in court during his detention hearing on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (Diego Fishburn via AP)

DOJ says Kilmar Abrego Garcia will face trial on federal smuggling charges before it tries to deport him again

By Ben Finley, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others