Unsealed court documents show the FBI was looking for evidence Trump violated the Espionage Act and other laws – here’s how the documents seized show possible wrongdoing
A police officer drives by Mar-a-Lago on August 9, 2022. Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images The FBI recovered confidential and top-secret items from Mar-a-Lago during...
Documents taken in Trump raid included files marked top secret, report says
The FBI seized multiple sets of documents marked top secret from former President Donald Trump’s resort home Mar-a-Lago when agents carried out a search warrant...
The climate bill’s projected emissions cuts rely heavily on carbon capture – it would mean thousands of miles of pipeline
The sweeping climate, energy and health care bill expected to go to a vote in the U.S. House on Friday contains about US$370 billion to...
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Kinzinger on fight with Trump: ‘Yeah, he won. In the short term at least.’
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), one of two Republicans on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said in a new interview with WGN-TV that he believes former President Trump has won their short-term battle over the soul of the GOP. Asked in the exclusive interview if the former president…
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Ex-Cop Faces 87 Months In Prison For Jan. 6 Riot—Tying For Longest Sentence
Topline A former Virginia police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in the January 6 riot, tying for the most severe sentence for a Capitol riot-related case so far, as federal prosecutors and judges work their way through hundreds of defendants arrested in the wake of…
Man who fired nail gun at FBI building called for violence in days after Mar-a-Lago search
A man identified by two law enforcement sources as Ricky Shiffer, who died in a confrontation with police after he fired a nail gun at a Cincinnati FBI building, appeared to post online in recent days about his desire to kill FBI agents shortly after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was searched.Two law enforcement…
Subpoena Preceded Search Warrant in Push to Retrieve Material From Trump
Former President Donald J. Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier...
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Alex Jones Texts Reportedly Given To January 6 Committee
Topline A lawyer representing two parents of a student killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting has given two years’ worth of InfoWars host Alex Jones’ text messages to the January 6 committee, CNN reported on Monday, a week after the attorney revealed Jones’ legal team had accidentally disclosed dozens of emails and text…
FBI’s Wray denounces threats to law enforcement after agency searches Trump’s home
OMAHA, Neb. — The director of the FBI had strong words Wednesday for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.Christopher Wray, who was appointed as the agency’s director in 2017 by Trump, called threats circulating online against federal agents and the…
U.S. Charges Iranian Operative With Plotting To Kill Ex-National-Security Adviser Bolton
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a member of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in connection with an alleged plot to kill former...
Trump takes the Fifth in N.Y. attorney general deposition
Former President Donald Trump declined to answer questions on Wednesday during a deposition with the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, asserting his...
Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization – cable news has a bigger effect, study finds
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people...
Q and A on the FBI’s Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home
Former President Donald Trump announced that the FBI had searched Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Florida, home on Aug. 8. Trump’s son Eric told Fox News...
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Mike Pence says FBI search of Trump’s home raises ‘deep concern,’ urges Garland to explain
Former Vice President Mike Pence expressed “deep concern” Tuesday about the FBI’s search of ex-President Donald Trump’s resort home Mar-a-Lago, calling it “unprecedented” and pressing the Department of Justice to...