Roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have given notice of their departures amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, according to people familiar with the matter.
The same day a Florida Republican rolled out legislation to make Greenland the 51st U.S. state, a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced rival legislation to prevent President Trump from taking action on the Arctic island.
The congressmen who wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act have asked a federal judge to appoint an overseer to speed up the Trump administration's review of files from the disgraced and deceased sex offender, saying the Justice Department appears to be bungling the process.
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would allow individuals whose image has been used without their consent to create an "intimate" deepfake to sue the creator of the digital forgery for damages.
The Smithsonian Institution faced a Tuesday deadline to detail its plans for celebrating the country's 250th birthday, part of President Donald Trump's sweeping efforts to purge negativity from the stories that Americans are told about their history.
Republican-led states asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to bless their laws that generally bar biological males from female sports, saying women and girls deserve leagues of their own.