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The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the federal death penalty.
"Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals," the DOJ memo obtained by Fox News read.
"Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," the memo read.
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HUD halted enforcement of an Obama-era rule on gender identity in federally funded housing and shelters, shifting policy to recognize only biological sex.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a fatal 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, against demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Federal investigators on Thursday detailed a series of issues and failures that led up to last month's deadly collision between a regional jet and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks following a meeting in the White House, President Trump announced Thursday from the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump's "gold card" visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least $1 million to legally live and work in the U.S., has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday - appearing to fall a bit short of an earlier claim.
The federal government struck a deal Thursday, agreeing not to return trigger switches, which can make semiautomatic firearms mimic machine guns, to people in Democrat-led states where the devices are banned by law.
Federal authorities said they've disrupted a vicious "scam factory" network in Asia that recruited local workers, enslaved them in fraud centers as large as cities, then turned them loose to steal from Americans through phone scams.
Democratic candidates gave Newsom no lower than a B-minus on homelessness, drawing sharp criticism from Republicans at a California gubernatorial debate on Wendesday.
The America First Policy Institute launched an investigation into the Virginia redistricting amendment vote, targeting mail-in ballot procedures and alleged school political activity.
