President Trump tweeted that federal indictments against two Republican congressmen placed the GOP in midterm election jeopardy, the Associated Press reports. Trump again attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, suggesting that the Justice Department consider politics when making decisions: “Obama era investigations, of two very popular...
When Issac J. Bailey was nine, he watched his brother taken away in handcuffs for the crime of murder. Now a veteran journalist, Bailey explored the mixed feelings of guilt and shame experienced by his family in My Brother Moochie, a very personal account of...
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says it is up to states whether to spend federal money to buy firearms, as officials seek ways to prevent school shootings. That means, for the first time, federal education dollars could be used to buy guns, the Washington Post...
Los Angeles County police fatally shot Vanessa Marquez, a former actress from the show “ER,” on Thursday after she grabbed a BB gun while they were responding to a welfare check at her apartment, the Washington Post reports. Three police officers and a mental-health clinician...
A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” the Associated Press reports. Lawyer Bruce Ohr says he learned that a Trump campaign aide...
Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election while on supervised release, will have to go back to federal prison, the Dallas Morning News reports. A federal judge in Fort Worth ruled Thursday that Mason, 43, must spend ten months...