The Secret Service has placed an agent on administrative leave after an undercover video showed him discussing sensitive parts of his duties, NewsNation’s Kevin Bohn reported Tuesday. The Secret Service also suspended the agent's security clearance, who served on Vice President Vance’s detail and has worked for the law enforcement agency for five years. The...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly not investigating the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer as a civil rights case. “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN Tuesday. The Hill has reached out to the DOJ for comment. Good,...
President Trump said Tuesday that Renee Good’s actions prior to a federal immigration officer fatally shooting her “were pretty tough.” “I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person. But her actions were pretty tough,” the president told CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil. Good, 37, was shot and killed by...
Democrats were projected to win a Connecticut state House special election on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ. Democratic candidate Larry Pemberton defeated Republican Brandon Sabbag for Connecticut state House District 139. Pemberton, who serves as treasurer for the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, according to The Bulletin, defeated Sabbag, who’s served on the Ledyard Republican Party,...
Republican Norman Crow is projected to defeat Democrat Judith Taylor in the special election for Alabama State House District 63, according to Decision Desk HQ. Crow, a Tuscaloosa City Council member, defeated Judith Taylor, a retired college professor and chair of the Tuscaloosa County Democratic Executive Committee, for a state House seat that includes parts...
At least four Americans detained under Nicolás Maduro’s regime were released by Venezuela’s interim government following a U.S. military operation that captured the longtime leader.