Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town’s wastewater Tests on wastewater in an upscale Massachusetts ocean resort town have revealed unexpectedly high levels of cocaine – up to three times the national average. Officials in the town of Nantucket on the eponymous island off … Read more
The senior lawmaker leading the U.S. House of Representatives investigation of Jeffrey Epstein is the latest high-profile official to sound off on the arrest of former British royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., reiterated the need for accountability and lauded the Trump administration’s commitment to releasing its own information on Epstein. … Read more
A Justice Department attorney has been ordered to pay a $500 daily fine after a federal judge found him in civil contempt of court. On Wednesday, Judge Laura Provinzino, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, found Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Isihara in civil contempt, hitting him with a daily fine. The judge … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Republican lawmakers tasked with oversight of the Coast Guard said the lone military branch not under Pentagon authority is being wrongly hurt by Democrats holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is demanding “three basic objectives” to come back to the table, according to CBS News: … Read more
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he didn’t seek a political scrap with President Donald Trump. “I don’t have any personal desire to go back and forth with the President of the United States. That’s not why I ran for office,” the Democratic governor of the solidly blue state emphasized in a Fox News … Read more
A federal judge in Colorado has questioned whether the Trump administration is complying with his order barring warrantless ICE arrests in the state, according to Colorado Public Radio. Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during a hearing Wednesday that the Department of Justice appeared to … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: Wealthy Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris bankrolled Hunter Biden’s legal defense and other bills when he was facing charges for federal firearms and tax crimes, and now he is helping finance the gubernatorial campaign of one of the most vocal defenders of Hunter, a new campaign finance filing reveals. A campaign filing that … Read more
Republican lawmakers called it “insane” that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed to a key advisory panel a lawyer with past ties to the Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board. Judges on the FISC appointed Jennifer Daskal this month to serve as an amicus curiae, meaning Daskal is now among a small group of … Read more
Email beau.dure@theguardian.com or hit him on BlueSky Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Beau Dure will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s how the men’s teams fared yesterday: With NHL players returning to the Winter Olympics for the first time since 2014, these Games were expected to be a … Read more
Yoon Suk Yeol, the impeached president of South Korea, was found guilty of insurrection and sentenced to life in prison over his failed attempt to impose martial law on the U.S. ally. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer reports on Suk Yeol’s short-lived power grab that sent the Asian democracy into political turmoil in 2024.
