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Confessed Russian spy Maria Butina may be preparing to testify in an upcoming criminal trial, according to sealed court papers briefly made public on Friday. Reportedly she is now needed to testify or provide information in another case.
A federal judge in Texas said on Friday that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law therefore is not valid. The ruling was based on law changes made in the 2017 Republican tax bill.
The legal jeopardy for President Donald Trump has been increasing all week. And Friday special counsel Robert Mueller made things even worse as he disclosed that he still wants to sit down for an in-person interview with the president.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, explained exactly how Donald Trump could be indicted while still in office.
(Reuters) – North Carolina Democratic Governor Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed a Republican-authored bill requiring voters to present photo identification, saying it would disenfranchise poor, minority and elderly voters.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog will investigate the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant which occurred after she was detained by U.S. border agents, officials said on Friday.
Trump couldn't find a new chief of staff, so he named Mick Mulvaney as the acting chief of staff.
Sarah Sanders claimed that Trump wasn't involved with the inauguration, but reporters have obtained the presentations that he was showing during briefings.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn knew better than to lie to the FBI and does not deserve sentencing leniency because he was not warned that lying to federal agents was a crime, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
"He does not need to be warned it is a crime to lie to federal agents to know the importance of telling them the truth," Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, told a U.S. judge ahead of Flynn's sentencing on Tuesday.
Ivanka Trump may have violated tax laws and is at the center of $40 million missing dollars from Trump's inaugural committee.
Moments after Scott Walker signed a series of bills that weakened the power of the incoming Democratic Wisconsin governor and attorney general he was sued for a potentially illegal act.
Chris Christie pulled his name from consideration to be Trump's chief of staff because he has a book coming out in January.
Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at weakening the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who said the move was a last-minute partisan power grab.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is claiming that Trump had nothing to do and wasn't involved with his inauguration committee that is under criminal investigation.
The White House spokespeople are putting out statements attacking Michael Cohen as Trump's ex-lawyer is exposing the president.
Prosecutors would need to prove that Trump knew it was a crime. ... And here is Trump in 2012 showing that he knows about this very law as it applied to John Edwards, thus proving he “knew what the law forbade.” In fact, he adds for good measure: “a lot of very good lawyers” talked to him about the case.
California is determined to force 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls to make some hard choices.
A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Friday that a 7-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala had died hours after she was taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody.