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Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is scrambling to review about 5.2 million pages related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to comply with a law passed by Congress, a source familiar with the operation told NBC News on Tuesday night. That number is much higher than previously known. The Justice Department was seeking to enlist roughly 400 employees in the effort to sift through the records, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
Several international humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), face being barred from working in Gaza from Thursday for failing to comply with Israel's new restrictions for aid groups operating in the devastated enclave. Israel said Tuesday it will suspend the operations of international aid groups that did not renew their registration, which includes requiring organizations working in ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
is not the first president to want more room at the White House for entertaining, says the longest-serving top aide in the executive residence, offering some backup for the reason Trump has cited for his to presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — a role that is akin to being the general manager of the residence. "All the presidents that I had an opportunity to serve ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
Documents suggest Kilmar Ábrego García was retaliated against after wrongful deportation Judge said newly unsealed government documents show 'some evidence' of vindictive prosecution by DoJ A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Ábrego García reveals that high-level justice department officials pushed for his indictment, calling it a "top priority", only after he was ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
PHOENIX (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona on Tuesday announced his withdrawal from public life following a dementia diagnosis. Kyl, 83, represented Arizona in both chambers of Congress for nearly three decades. Most of those years were in the Senate including a term as minority whip. "My family and I now head down a path filled with moments of joy and increasing difficulties," Kyl said in ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 31st, 2025 -
Washington — Individuals on board two alleged drug smuggling boats jumped into the water after an initial strike on another boat on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. U.S. Southern Command announced Wednesday that three "narco-trafficking vessels traveling as a convoy" were struck in "international waters" a day earlier. Three people were killed when the first boat was hit, according to Southern ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been accused of inventing a fake emergency to "justify" demolishing a cluster of highly secure buildings that have been designated as a National Historic Landmark. The buildings are part of a fortified 176-acre complex that formerly housed a hospital created by Congress in 1855 to provide mental health care for the Army, Navy, and District of Columbia. Suddenly, just two ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as "extremely dangerous." The bombing followed tensions over the advance of Emirates-backed separatist forces known as the Southern Transitional Council. The council ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
The Trump administration filed a federal preemption lawsuit on Monday against the Commonwealth of Virginia over a policy that provides in-state tuition for immigrants who live in the Old Dominion. In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled " Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders ." The order aimed to keep "taxpayer-funded benefits" away from immigrants and directed officials to ...
Source: lawandcrime.com