The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent a letter to the Justice Department Inspector General accusing Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick for FBI director, of secretly orchestrating the firings of FBI officials, a day after telling the committee under oath that he was not aware of any plan to do so. “If...
BERLIN — A doctor in Berlin who was first arrested in August on suspicion of killing four elderly patients is now suspected of killing a total of 10 patients and, in five cases, trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires, investigators said Tuesday. The unidentified doctor, who was part of a nursing service’s...
Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some public health experts say is a troubling gap in the national effort to identify and detect the spread of the virus. The U.S. Department of...
When President Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate the penny Sunday, he cited the rising cost of producing the coin. Data from the U.S. Treasury shows it’s not the only coin that costs more than it’s worth. Both the penny’s and the nickel’s manufacturing costs are greater than their face values, according to a...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to pause a lower court’s order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding. A judge in Rhode Island on Monday blocked the funding freeze and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.” In its ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was signing an executive order to give tech billionaire Elon Musk more power over the federal workforce, adding to Musk’s swift and sweeping consolidation of political influence. With Musk standing to his right in the Oval Office, Trump praised the work of Musk’s office, known as the U.S. Department...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan and budget director Russ Vought met with Senate Republicans Tuesday afternoon and pleaded with them to send the administration more money to carry out their immigration crackdown plans. “Tom Homan said, ‘I am begging you for money,’” Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters afterward....
A California teenager who pleaded guilty to making hoax shooting and bombing threats to institutions around the country will serve four years in federal prison, a judge ruled Tuesday. Alan Filion, 18, faced a maximum of five years per charge on four counts of making interstate threats but was ultimately sentenced to 48 months, according...
The Education Department on Tuesday urged organizations overseeing high school and college athletics to strip records, titles and awards from transgender women who competed in women’s sports. The department sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) calling on them to “restore to...