Jun 23 Administration seeks to expand immigrant family detention By Amy Taxin, Associated Press Immigration authorities on Friday issued a notice that they may seek up to 15,000 beds to detain families. Continue reading
Jun 18 WATCH LIVE: Justice Department inspector general, FBI head to testify on watchdog report By Geoffrey Lou Guray The hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. EST. Watch it here. Continue reading
Jun 14 What the inspector general report reveals about Comey and the Clinton probe By Lisa Desjardins After a 17-month investigation, the Department of Justice on Thursday released a 500-page report into how the agency, the FBI and then-director James Comey handled its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Here's what we learned. Continue reading
Jun 13 Comcast challenges Disney with $65 billion bid for Fox By Mae Anderson, Associated Press The bid comes just a day after a federal judge cleared AT&T's takeover of Time Warner and rejected the government's argument that it would hurt competition in cable and satellite TV and jack up costs to consumers for streaming TV… Continue reading
Jun 06 Judge sides with Philadelphia in sanctuary city fight By Associated Press A federal judge has ruled in favor of Philadelphia in its lawsuit against the federal government for withholding grant funding in response to how the city deals with immigrants in the country illegally. Continue reading
May 23 Trump seethes over Russia probe, calls for end to ‘SPYGATE’ By Anne Flaherty, Desmond Butler, Chad Day, Associated Press President Donald Trump escalated his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation Wednesday. "SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!" the president said in an early morning Twitter tirade. Continue reading
May 22 FBI, Justice Dept. officials agree to meet with congressional leaders to ‘review’ information on Russia probe By Desmond Butler, Chad Day, Associated Press Ratcheting up pressure on the Russia investigation, the White House announced that top FBI and Justice Department officials have agreed to meet with congressional leaders and "review" highly classified information the lawmakers have been seeking on the handling of the… Continue reading
May 21 Watchdog report to fault FBI for Clinton probe delay By Eric Tucker, Associated Press An upcoming report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog is expected to criticize senior FBI leaders for not moving quickly enough to review a trove of Hillary Clinton emails discovered late in the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with… Continue reading
May 21 Trump says he will ‘demand’ DOJ to investigate whether FBI infiltrated campaign By Jonathan Lemire, Darlene Superville, Associated Press The president said he will "demand" that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his 2016 campaign, an order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the Russia probe could be concluded by September. Continue reading
May 18 What’s behind Trump’s FBI spy theory? By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or "spy," inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned… Continue reading