The Department of Justice moved Monday to toss out Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction, a rare request that served to undo yet another element of the Biden-era investigations and prosecutions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro made the request to dismiss Bannon’s case in the district court in … Read more
Lawmakers led by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, teed up consideration of how Congress approaches the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs) Tuesday, pressing the case for national safety standards that, if successful, will override budding state-level restrictions on the developing technology. The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced the SELF DRIVE Act in a 12–11 vote … Read more
Government officials continued to defend the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics and were unapologetic when grilled by Democrats during a House hearing on Tuesday.
Acting director Todd Lyons called ICE ‘key’ to security 2026 World Cup takes place this summer in 11 US cities The acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told a congressional committee on Tuesday that his agency is a “key part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup” and refused to … Read more
Newly released FBI footage of a masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home on the morning of her disappearance drew an immediate response from the White House on Tuesday, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the president reacted with “pure disgust.” Minutes before the White House briefing, the FBI released photos and video of … Read more
The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna read out the names of six wealthy men included in the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a post on X at lunchtime, Khanna, of California, named the six as Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Leslie Wexner. He said he and his Republican colleague … Read more
‘They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again,’ says Manhattan borough president The Trump administration has removed a large pride flag from the Stonewall national monument in New York City, marking the latest move by the federal government to end diversity initiatives and sanitize the history shared in national parks. The … Read more
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, who is currently facing charges related to interfering with ICE officers at a detention facility, is facing strong pushback online over her line of questioning to ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons in a heated hearing Tuesday. “How do you think Judgment Day will work for you with so much blood on your … Read more
The 28 January raid of the Fulton county election office also came after a referral from a White House lawyer The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to … Read more
Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013 Jeffrey Epstein engineered an intimate relationship between a woman in his network and Kimbal Musk, who is the brother of Elon Musk and on the board of directors at Tesla, according to emails from the Department of Justice’s … Read more
