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WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Private prison company CoreCivic reported in a lobbying disclosure that it donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee in December, underscoring the close relationship between President Donald Trump and the private prison industry. As ABC News has previously reported, CoreCivic and private prison company GEO Group, both which have both […]
Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump’s inauguration, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case that once accused Trump of mishandling some of the country’s most sensitive secrets. Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Hayden O’Bryne on Wednesday moved […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the Civil Rights Division, according to a new directive reviewed by ABC News. The memo to the current acting head of the Civil Rights Division, Kathleen Wolfe, says that current career officials in […]
Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge sentenced a tearful former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison Wednesday on corruption charges after being convicted of abusing the power of his office in exchange for bribes in the form of gold bars, a luxury car and other items. “You stood at the […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s rapid reshaping of the federal government continues with executive orders and action from his acting agency heads. Federal departments face a 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday to cease spending on any financial assistance programs, according to a memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. More firings of […]
Kings County Sheriff’s Office (CALIFORNIA) — Authorities in California are searching for a man who allegedly gunned down his daughters’ mother and kidnapped the two young girls. The suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, may have fled to Mexico, the Kings County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The case began Tuesday afternoon when deputies responded to a […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge signaled he will issue a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from freezing federal loans and grants, raising concerns the White House will try to enact the same policy described in the now-rescinded memo from the Office of Management and Budget. District Judge John McConnell Jr. has not […]
Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday to lead the Department of Health and Human Services saw senators question the environmental lawyer about his views on vaccines, abortion, pesticides and even Lyme disease. Senators asked Kennedy about views he has frequently promoted on vaccines that are at odds […]
Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge on Wednesday to put him on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn’t sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the “hell hole” that is the New York City jail complex. “Every day I’m at […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump is set to sign the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to tackle his key goal of curbing illegal immigration. The bill, which will symbolically be the first bill Trump signs in his second term, will require the detention of […]
