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  • Pam BondiPolitics

    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
  • Jeanine PirroPolitics

    Former Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as top prosecutorial cop for Washington DC

    By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated Press
  • James Callahan walks in a paradePolitics

    James Callahan, one of America’s ‘most powerful union leaders’ who failed to report $315,000 in gifts like concert tickets, just got pardoned by Trump on the eve of his sentencing

    By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is seen with the United States flag in the foreground, Jan. 15, 2010, in Prague. (Michal Kamaryt/CTK via AP, File)Politics

    Trump administration has to restore $12 million to pro-democracy Radio Free Europe, federal judge rules

    By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated Press
  • In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)Politics

    Judge says Nazis detained in the U.S. during World World II got better legal treatment than Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador

    By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others
  • People rally on 14th St NW in support of fired USAID workers during a protest, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, by the USAID headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Politics

    DOGE’s USAID teardown probably violates the Constitution, judge rules as he blocks Musk’s group from making further cuts to the agency

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Kunzelman, and others
  • Elon Musk Joins President Trump For Signing Executive Orders In The Oval OfficePolitics

    Are Elon Musk’s sweeping DOGE cuts illegal? For the most part, judges say no

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, and others
  • Doctor analyzes health care dataHealth

    Judge tells CDC, FDA to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order

    By The Associated Press and Michael Kunzelman
  • Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid approved by Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    A judge Trump nominated says he will temporarily block the administration from placing 2,200 USAID workers on paid leave

    By Ellen Knickmeyer, Michael Kunzelman, and others
  • Supporters of President Donald Trump stand with their flags in support of people convicted for their part in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol at the DC Central Detention Facility in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    D.C. federal court judges slam Trump’s blanket clemency for Jan. 6 rioters: ‘It cannot whitewash the…terror that the mob left in its wake’

    By Michael Kunzelman, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offenses in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Politics

    Trump pardons over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who assaulted police

    By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, and others
  • FILE – Bitcoin logos are displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show on April 7, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NFTs and Culture

    Bitcoin thief sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing $1 billion in crypto and laundering it with his social-media rapper wife ‘Razzlekhan’

    By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated Press
  • Col. Christopher L. Paris, Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State PolicePolitics

    2 police officers left their key post to look for Trump gunman before shooting

    By Alanna Durkin Richer, Claudia Lauer, and others
  • Secret Service agentsPolitics

    Secret Service investigates how gunman got so close to Trump as Biden orders independent review

    By Rebecca Santana, Michael Biesecker, and others
  • Hunter BidenPolitics

    Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felony charges in federal gun trial

    By Randall Chase, Claudia Lauer, and others