Glen Kopp, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said federal prosecutors have to jump through several hoops to get the Department of Justice and a federal judge to sign off on a wiretap. Kopp, who is now a partner in the New York office of the law firm Mayer Brown, said prosecutors […]
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Pentagon Says Soldiers At Border To Cost $182 Million
Sending 2,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border will cost $182 million through the end of the fiscal year, the Pentagon’s top spokeswoman said Thursday. The money would come from the Guard’s operation and maintenance and military personnel accounts, spokeswoman Dana White said. “These are funds that are for training and so we’ll use them, […]
Boy Scouts To Drop Gender From Name And Membership Requirements
The Boy Scouts is getting a name change. Starting in February, 2019, the program will switch to a gender neutral title and allow girls to join. After 108 years, the Boy Scouts program is set to drop the gender from its name and re-emerge as “Scouts BSA,” a more “inclusive” group that will also soon […]
Trump Replaces Lawyer With Ex-Clinton Impeachment Lawyer
White House lawyer representing President Trump in the Russia investigation to retire at end of May. President Trump’s in-house lawyer representing him in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is set to leave this month — and will be replaced by an attorney who represented former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment fight, Fox News has […]
North Korea To Release 3 Political Prisoners Before Meeting With Trump
North Korea has released three US citizens who had been held prisoner by the communist dictatorship, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, citing a South Korean activist who lobbies for the release of detainees. The releases — which have not been confirmed by the State Department — would meet one of the Trump administration’s […]
Trump Finalizing Plans To Meet With Kim Jong Un
President Trump said Tuesday the location and date of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be announced in the next “couple of days.” “We want to get peace,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re setting up meetings right now and I think it’s probably going to be announced over […]
Arizona Teachers Walkout For 4th Consecutive Day
Hundreds of public schools across Arizona remained closed on Tuesday due to the fourth day of teacher walkouts. An estimated 840,000 students were out of school again Tuesday as educators and school employees committed to a fourth day of demonstrations over low pay and low funding for school systems. Reuters reports that organizers announced late Monday that they would […]
Questions Mueller Wants To Ask President Leaked To Press
Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly assembled a list of close to 50 questions he wants to ask President Trump as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The New York Times reported Monday that it obtained a list of the questions, which include inquiries related to Trump’s business dealings, […]
Israel Says It Has Proof That Iran Has Secret Nuclear Bomb Program
Israeli prime minister claims Iran had been hiding all of the elements of a secret nuclear weapons program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed new “dramatic” intelligence Monday which he claimed shows Iran is “brazenly lying” about its nuclear weapons program and shows the country is not complying with the vaunted nuclear deal it signed […]
Caravan Of Immigrants Seeking Asylum Refused Entry To US
Upward of 100 people from Central America who traveled north in a so-called “migrant caravan” to seek asylum in the United States are waking up on the Mexican side of the border this morning. Organizers of the group told ABC News that there are about 100 people sleeping outside a port of entry in San […]
Porn Star Files Defamation Lawsuit Against President Trump
Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Trump in addition to her ongoing one against his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted Monday that his client has filed the lawsuit for Trump’s “irresponsible and defamatory statements” about Daniels, whom Cohen paid $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement […]
Immigrant Caravan Reaches American Border
Members of a migrant caravan have reached Tijuana, Mexico, where they were preparing for a Sunday showdown with American immigration officials. The administration of President Donald Trump has described the group as a threat, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan as “a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system.” Nearly […]