Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is phoning a friend as the administration deals with fallout over the Epstein files. President Trump’s former personal attorney-turned-Justice Department deputy announced Tuesday that he would initiate talks with a lawyer for Ghislane Maxwell, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice. Left unmentioned: the lawyer, David Oscar Markus, happens to be a...
Most people would welcome this policy change. Yet by removing this layer, what else can be done to ensure that the system’s security remains sufficiently robust?
New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday for failing to uphold the court ordered appointment of Alina Haba’s successor to serve as the state’s interim U.S. attorney. Desiree Leigh Grace, Habba's first assistant, was tapped by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to...
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here or using the box below: In today's issue: ▪ Battle over interim US Attorney in NJ ▪ GOP eyes renaming opera house for Melania Trump ▪ Trump unveils Japan, Philippines trade deals House Republicans find themselves cornered by President Trump’s MAGA base, their own pledges of “transparency”...
Former Trump attorney Emil Bove's appeals court nomination moved forward Tuesday, despite Democratic concerns and one Republican breaking ranks in the Senate vote.
FIRST ON FOX: The intelligence community did not have any direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, but, at the "unusual" direction of then-President Obama, published "potentially biased" or "implausible" intelligence suggesting otherwise, the House Intelligence Committee found.
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York opts for House re-election campaign instead of gubernatorial run after meeting with President Trump, who previously endorsed his congressional bid.