Despite a judge's order calling for his return to the United States from El Salvador, a Venezuelan migrant was instead sent back to his home country in a prisoner exchange deal reached last week, an unexpected development that left his lawyers scrambling to locate him.
Alina Habba, who served as President Donald Trump's defense lawyer and a White House counselor and became one of the most high-profile U.S. attorneys, saw her 120-day interim term as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor end Tuesday.
Transgender women athletes will now face exclusion from U.S. Olympic and Paralympic activities, according to new policy from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). "In our world of elite sport, these elements of fairness demand that we reconcile athlete inclusion and athlete opportunity," reads a statement on the USOPC website. "The only way...
President Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration had reached an agreement with Japan on trade, which would see the U.S. impose a 15 percent tariff on Japanese goods. Trump posted on Truth Social that Japan would invest $550 billion in projects in the United States, though he did not specify what those investments would...
Maryland state House Majority Leader David Moon (D) called out redistricting “cheats” on Tuesday and pledged to redraw the state’s district lines if others are allowed to do so outside of the traditional census period. “I'm introducing legislation to redraw Maryland congressional districts if any other state cheats & draws new maps outside of the...
Top Justice Department officials on Tuesday announced that a deputy to Alina Habba, President Trump's pick for New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, has been "removed" after federal judges declined to extend Habba's interim role. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Desiree Leigh Grace, Habba's first assistant who was tapped by the U.S. District Court for...
Senate Democrats on Tuesday cautiously agreed to advance bipartisan legislation funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), less than a week after Republicans rammed through a partisan bill to defund PBS, NPR and global aid programs. Thirty-eight Democrats voted for a motion to proceed to the bill after holding a long lunchtime...
President Trump and his allies are desperate to move past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy — but their own words and actions are having the opposite effect. Trump’s decision to sue The Wall Street Journal over an Epstein-related story, his administration’s choice to bar the Journal from the group of reporters who will cover the president’s upcoming trip...