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Trump Cleaves Student Loan and Special Education Services From Education Dept.
Read Latest News President Trump announced Friday that the Education Department would no longer manage the nation’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio or oversee special education services in a major shake-up of an agency he has sought to eliminate. Student loans will move under the Small Business Administration, while special education services, along with nutrition…
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Justice Dept. Tries to Intervene on Trump’s Behalf in Jan. 6 Lawsuits
Read Latest News The Justice Department made an unusual effort on Thursday to short-circuit a series of civil lawsuits seeking to hold President Trump accountable for his supporters’ attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Department lawyers argued in court papers filed to the judge overseeing the cases that Mr. Trump was acting in…
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‘It Sounds Strange, Doesn’t It?’ Trump Muses About Gutting the Education Dept.
Read Latest News It seemed as if the president just needed a little reassurance. He was in the East Room of the White House, which was packed with jittery children, conservative activists, influencers and six Republican governors, from Florida, Texas, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa. All had come to watch him sign an executive order…
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What Happens to Student Loans if the Education Dept. Closes?
Read Latest News President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in an attempt to shut down the Education Department. “We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr. Trump signed the order. But they are not about to let…
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Judge Orders Education Dept. to Restore Some Grants to Schools
Read Latest News A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Education Department to restore some federal grants that were terminated as part of the Trump administration’s purge of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Judge Julie R. Rubin of the Federal District Court for the District of Maryland said in an opinion that the department had…
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Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech Shows a Renewed Quest for Vengeance
Read Latest News Presidents and prosecutors have for generations appeared in the Great Hall of the Justice Department to announce important anti-crime initiatives or to offer plaudits for the fundamental tenet of the rule of law, while maintaining distance from the detailed workings of the department itself. When President Bill Clinton addressed the Great Hall…
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech on Crime, Immigration and His Cases
Read Latest News President Trump repeated a number of well-trodden falsehoods on Friday in a grievance-fueled speech at the Justice Department, veering from prepared remarks to single out lawyers and prosecutors and assail the criminal investigations into him. His remarks, billed as a policy address, were wide-ranging, touching on immigration, crime and the price of…
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Trump to Deliver Speech to Justice Dept. After Triumph in Battles Against It
Read Latest News In June 2023, Donald J. Trump’s lawyers arrived at Justice Department headquarters, grimly scooped up visitors badges and were ushered upstairs to ask prosecutors for details about Mr. Trump’s imminent indictment over the hoarding of documents at Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump never faced a trial and is now the president. Two members of…
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Justice Dept. Moving to Downsize Units Investigating Fraud and Corruption
Read Latest News Justice Department officials are drafting plans to broadly restructure — and significantly downsize — several key units in Washington responsible for investigating cases of fraud and public corruption, according to three people briefed on the changes. The plans, which have not been finalized, could be announced within the next few days. If…
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Student loans shouldn’t be handled by Education Dept., Trump says
Read Latest News U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to board Marine One, while departing the White House en route to Florida, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters SBA, Commerce or Treasury could take student loans Student debt transfer could lead to major disruptions Transferring the loan accounts…
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Judge Orders U.S.A.I.D. and State Dept. to Pay Funds ‘Unlawfully’ Withheld
Read Latest News A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds” that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development owed to grant recipients and contractors, requiring it to pay for work completed in the first several weeks of President Trump’s term. The ruling,…
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Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Read Latest News The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that the actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump’s, should have his gun rights restored, according to the attorney and others familiar with the situation. Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, described the sequence of…
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Trump Administration Forces Out More Senior Justice Dept. Officials
Read Latest News The Trump administration on Friday forced out a handful of senior Justice Department officials, further thinning the ranks of career officials who help guide the agency, according to several people familiar with the actions. The ouster of lawyers managing the Justice Department’s pardon work, bankruptcy litigation and other legal issues marks the…
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Justice Dept. Is Said to Put Two Prosecutors in Adams Case on Leave
Read Latest News Two Manhattan prosecutors who worked on the corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, were put on administrative leave by the Justice Department on Friday, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. The prosecutors, Celia Cohen and Andrew Rohrbach, had been serving in high-ranking positions in the United…
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State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
Read Latest News Senior State Department officials have drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates overseas by this summer and are considering shutting down many more missions, in what could be a blow to the U.S. government’s efforts to build partnerships and gather intelligence, American officials say. The department also plans to lay off…
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Student loan borrowers in the dark as Trump targets Education Dept.
Read Latest News An American flag and a U.S. Department of Education flag fly outside the US Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 1, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | Reuters Federal student loan borrowers experiencing difficulties with their loans could find they have no recourse as President Donald Trump‘s cuts to staff at…
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Trump Is Said to Be Preparing Order That Aims to Eliminate Education Dept.
Read Latest News President Trump is preparing to sign an order that would instruct Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to begin dismantling her agency, setting the stage for a potential power struggle with Congress and another round of legal challenges from opponents. An administration official said the order could be signed as soon as Thursday.…
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Senate Confirms Trump Attorney Todd Blanche as No. 2 Justice Dept. Official
Read Latest News The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Trump’s criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche to take the No. 2 position at the Justice Department, where he has vowed to end the kind of investigations and prosecutions that led to indictments against his client. Mr. Blanche’s nomination to be the deputy attorney general, with oversight…
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Trump Administration Told to Reinstate Nearly 6,000 Agriculture Dept. Workers
Read Latest News Thousands of Agriculture Department employees who were fired last month must be reinstated in their old positions for at least 45 days, a board that handles federal worker disputes ordered on Wednesday. The fired employees were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions, swept up in the Trump administration’s push…
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Justice Dept. to Investigate U.C. System Over Allegations of Antisemitism
Read Latest News The Trump administration said Wednesday it would use a law typically meant to investigate racist practices within police departments to examine whether the University of California system had engaged in a pattern or practice of antisemitic discrimination. The move by the Justice Department comes two days after other federal agencies announced a…
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Justice Dept. Indicts 12 Chinese in Hacking Plot Against U.S. Targets
Read Latest News The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against a dozen Chinese citizens accused of being part of a sophisticated hacking ring that steals data from American businesses and people to sell to the Chinese government and others. In twin indictments in New York and Washington, the U.S. government laid out detailed charges…
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Justice Dept. Signals It Will End Challenge to Idaho Abortion Ban
Read Latest News The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era challenge to Idaho’s law banning abortion in nearly all circumstances, a move that could end access to most abortions for women in the state whose pregnancy poses serious health risks, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The decision represents one of the first…
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‘Final Mission’ for Education Dept. Begins Now, McMahon Says
Read Latest News Linda McMahon’s first act as secretary of education was to instruct staff to prepare for its “final mission,” her clearest indication yet of how she will work to fulfill President Trump’s goal of shuttering the department. Ms. McMahon’s missive, sent via email shortly after she was sworn in on Monday, was just…
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Justice Dept. to Review Election Tampering Conviction of Pro-Trump Clerk
Read Latest News The Justice Department said on Monday that it would review the conviction of the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., who was found guilty of state charges last summer of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020…
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U.S. Attorney Rebuffed by Justice Dept. in Push to Escalate Inquiry into Schumer
Read Latest News Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has been quietly pushing to present evidence against Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, to a federal grand jury over comments he made about Supreme Court justices in 2020, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Justice…
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Education Dept. Workers Offered Buyouts Ahead of ‘Very Significant’ Layoffs
Read Latest News Education Department employees received an email on Friday offering buyouts ahead of what was described as “very significant” layoffs, only to see that email disappear from their inboxes shortly thereafter. The email, sent to all of the department’s employees at 11:03 a.m., urged workers to consider a “one-time offer” of a taxable…
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Student loan applications down from Education Dept. website
Read Latest News Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin on February 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The Trump administration has taken down the applications for popular student loan repayments plans from the U.S. Department of Education‘s website, leaving millions of borrowers with fewer options for now. Borrowers…
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Justice Dept. Nominees Suggest Some Court Orders Can Be Ignored
Read Latest News Lawyers for President Trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats on Wednesday over whether the administration could simply ignore some court orders — an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers. The debate, before the…
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Justice Dept. Nominees Suggest Some Court Orders Can Be Ignored
Read Latest News Lawyers for President Trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats on Wednesday over whether the administration could simply ignore some court orders — an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers. The debate, before the…
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Trump’s Transportation Dept. Targets Blue State Priorities
Read Latest News The Department of Transportation delivered a blow to big transportation projects in the two most populous blue states last week when it moved to revoke its approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program and announced a review of California’s high speed rail project the next day. The D.O.T.’s moves arrive amid…
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Justice Dept. Takes Broad View of Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons
Read Latest News Four years ago, when F.B.I. agents searched the Florida home of Jeremy Brown, a former Special Forces soldier, in connection with his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, they found several illegal items: an unregistered assault rifle, two live fragmentation grenades and a classified “trip report” that…
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Federal Judge Banishes Musk’s DOGE Aides From Treasury Dept. Systems
Read Latest News A Manhattan federal judge on Friday banned Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team from regaining access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment and data systems until the conclusion of a lawsuit that claims the group’s access is unlawful. The judge overseeing the case, Jeannette A. Vargas, ruled that members of the so-called…
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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Read Latest News The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status. In an unopposed motion filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas, the Justice Department…
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Justice Dept. Suggests That Aiding Trump Could Outweigh Prosecutions
Read Latest News A senior Justice Department official suggested Wednesday that President Trump’s administration is justified in prioritizing a public official’s political cooperation over prosecutors’ suspicions that the official might have broken the law. The official, Emil Bove III, raised the idea during a hearing on Wednesday at which a judge asked him to explain…
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Federal Judge Won’t Block Musk’s Team From Access to Dept. of Education Data
Read Latest News A Federal District Court judge in Washington declined to bar associates of Elon Musk from gaining access to the Education Department’s data systems, finding that the University of California Student Association, which sued to block the incursion, had not shown that students were irreparably harmed in the process. In a late order…
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Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
Read Latest News The Education Department warned schools in a letter on Friday that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions, or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.” The announcement gave institutions 14…
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Trump Official’s Demand in Adams Case Forces Justice Dept. Showdown
Read Latest News In less than a month in power, President Trump’s political appointees have embarked on an unapologetic, strong-arm effort to impose their will on the Justice Department, seeking to justify their actions as the simple reversal of the “politicization” of federal law enforcement under their Biden-era predecessors. The ferocious campaign, executed by Emil…
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How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams
Read Latest News President Trump had just taken office when lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York went to the White House with an extraordinary request: They formally asked in a letter that the new president pardon the mayor in a federal corruption case that had yet to go to trial. Just a week…
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
Read Latest News Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents. The department’s procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects…
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State Dept. to Designate Latin American Cartels as Terrorist Groups
Read Latest News The Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as foreign terrorist organizations, said five U.S. officials with knowledge of the imminent action. The move, to be carried out by the State Department, follows an executive order President Trump signed on Jan. 20 calling…
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Musks’s DOGE Announces Millions in Cuts to Education Dept. Amid Legal Pushback
Read Latest News Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences. The team Mr. Musk has assembled, which has operated in relative secrecy in shuttering other agencies such as U.S.A.I.D. and slashing government…
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Live Updates: Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors to Drop Federal Corruption Case Against Eric Adams
Read Latest News The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, claiming his indictment last fall came too near the 2025 mayoral primary and had limited his ability to cooperate in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. “You are directed” to “dismiss” the…
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Justice Dept. Seeks to Drop Charges Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams: Live Updates
Read Latest News The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, claiming his indictment last fall came too near the 2025 mayoral primary and had limited his ability to cooperate in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. “You are directed to dismiss” the…
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Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams
Read Latest News The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, claiming his indictment last fall came too near the 2025 mayoral primary and had limited his ability to cooperate in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. “You are directed to dismiss” the…
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Senate Democrats Demand Clarity About Musk’s Efforts at Education Dept.
Read Latest News Senate Democrats demanded answers from the Education Department on Thursday about the scope of Elon Musk’s data collection efforts at the agency, which appears to be a focus of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting initiative. The letter, by a coalition of 15 lawmakers, reflected growing concern about the aggressive incursions that members of…
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Trump’s moves to abolish Education Dept. imperil student loan programs
Read Latest News An American flag and a U.S. Department of Education flag fly outside the US Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 1, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | Reuters With the Trump administration looking for ways to close parts or all of the U.S. Department of Education, many of the country’s 42…
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Justice Dept. Is Said to Discuss Dropping Case Against Eric Adams
Read Latest News Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, according to five people with knowledge of the matter. The officials have also spoken to Mr. Adams’s defense team since Mr. Trump…
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Chief Corruption Prosecutor Resigns From Justice Dept.
Read Latest News The head of the Justice Department’s public integrity section has resigned after he was unwilling to accept a forced transfer by Trump administration officials who wanted him to work on immigration instead. The chief, Corey Amundson, was informed of his reassignment in recent days. Mr. Amundson was one of many senior career…
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Trump Administration Moves Swiftly to Shake Up Top Career Justice Dept. Ranks
Read Latest News The frenetic scale and speed of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its first week alone indicate the degree to which it intends to remake not just the political direction of the department, but also the makeup of its senior career ranks. Senior officials handling…
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State Dept. Halts Global Mine-Clearing Programs
Read Latest News The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday. The email, sent at 6:26 a.m. by Karen R. Chandler, head of the State Department’s Office…
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Education Dept. Ends Book Ban Investigations
Read Latest News The Education Department said on Friday that it would no longer investigate schools that remove books from their libraries, emphasizing its new stance by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools. The move, immediately hailed by conservative groups, represents a significant whittling-down of the department’s traditional…
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Justice Dept. Cancels Entry-Level Job Offers in Honors Program
Read Latest News The Justice Department has abruptly rescinded job offers made to dozens of recent law school graduates who were to be placed in entry-level positions in its antitrust, criminal, civil rights, immigration and national security divisions, and at the F.B.I., according to people familiar with the situation. The offers were made through the…
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Justice Dept. to Investigate Local Officials Who Obstruct Immigration Enforcement
Read Latest News The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute state and city officials who refuse to help the Trump administration carry out its immigration agenda, a provocative move that will reignite President Trump’s first-term fight with liberals over “sanctuary” policies. In a three-page memo, dated Tuesday and intended as guidance to all department employees…
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Judge Stops Justice Dept. From Releasing Report on Trump Documents Case
Read Latest News A federal judge in Florida stopped the Justice Department on Tuesday from releasing to Congress a potentially damning section of a report by the former special counsel, Jack Smith, detailing his lengthy investigation of President Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. In a strongly worded 14-page order, the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, said…
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Trump Demands Search for Political Bias in Justice Dept., Other Agencies
Read Latest News President Trump’s executive order decrying the “weaponization” of the Justice Department instructs his attorney general to scour federal law enforcement agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission for any indications of political bias in work conducted under the Biden administration. The same executive order instructs the director of…
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Home insurance costs soar as climate events surge, Treasury Dept. says
Read Latest News Firefighters battle flames during the Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California, U.S., Jan. 7, 2025. Mario Anzuoni | Reuters Climate-related natural disasters are driving up insurance costs for homeowners in the most-affected regions, according to a Treasury Department report released Thursday. In a voluminous study covering 2018-22 and including some data beyond that,…
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Energy Dept. Offers Utilities $22 Billion to Reshape U.S. Power Grids
Read Latest News The Energy Department said on Thursday that it planned to offer $22.9 billion in loan guarantees to help eight electric utilities around the country modernize their power grids, add large amounts of renewable energy — and pass along any resulting savings to customers. The deals amount to one of the biggest commitments…
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Justice Dept. Gives Congress Special Counsel Report on Trump Election Case
Read Latest News Less than a week before Donald J. Trump is to start his second term as president, the Justice Department early Tuesday morning delivered to Congress part of a report by the former special counsel Jack Smith, detailing his long investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020…
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Justice Dept. Signals Report on Trump Documents Case May Never Be Released
Read Latest News Federal prosecutors tacitly signaled on Wednesday that the public may never see a portion of a report by the special counsel, Jack Smith, detailing his investigation into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s refusal to give back a trove of classified documents he took from the White House after leaving office. Mr. Trump’s legal…
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State Dept. Tells Congress It Plans to Send $8 Billion in Arms to Israel
Read Latest News The State Department has told Congress that it intends to approve $8 billion in purchases of U.S.-made arms by Israel, the department’s office in charge of arms transfers said on Friday. It could be the final set of arms transfers to Israel by President Biden, and represents a marker of continued support…
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Justice Dept. Reaches Deal to Monitor Atlanta Jail
Read Latest News The Justice Department has struck a deal with officials in Fulton County, Georgia, to appoint a monitor to try to ensure its troubled jail addresses long-running problems with safety, staffing and sanitation. The tentative agreement, which was announced Friday, must still be approved by a federal judge. It is the result of…
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Treasury Dept. Hits Chinese Tech Company With Sanctions After Breach
Read Latest News The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a Beijing-based cybersecurity company on Friday, blaming it for helping Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. communications systems and conduct surveillance across four continents. In an announcement, the department said the company, Integrity Technology Group, had supported a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Flax Typhoon in a…
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China Hacks the Treasury Dept., and a Hydropower Crisis
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China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major Incident,’ U.S. Says
Read Latest News The department notified lawmakers of the breach, which it said was linked to a state-sponsored actor in China. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved Finds Are Here! Don’t miss…
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State Dept. Designates American Teacher Held in Russia as ‘Wrongfully Detained’
Read Latest News Marc Fogel was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced in 2022 to 14 years in prison by the same court that handled the case of Brittney Griner. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking…
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Interior Dept. Is Caught Between Tribes in Casino Battles
Read Latest News The Biden administration’s consideration of three proposed tribal casinos in California and Oregon has touched off a fierce debate about tribal sovereignty and land rights. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~…
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Education Dept. Reverses Itself and Reopens Two Loan Repayment Plans
Read Latest News The department had been trying to phase out the two plans in favor of a more generous new one that has been tied up by litigation since this summer. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks…
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Justice Dept. Charges 2 Men in Deadly Drone Attack on U.S. Soldiers
Read Latest News The men are accused of supplying key parts in Iranian drones that killed three U.S. service members and injured dozens of others at an American military base in Jordan. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks…
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Justice Dept. Charges 2 Men in Deadly Drone Attack on U.S. Soldiers
Read Latest News The men are accused of supplying key parts in Iranian drones that killed three U.S. service members and injured dozens of others at an American military base in Jordan. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks…
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Louisville and Justice Dept. Reach Deal on Federal Oversight of Police
Read Latest News The agreement comes after the Justice Department documented excessive use of force, illegal searches and car stops and widespread discrimination against Black people and those with mental illnesses. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s…
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Police in Worcester, Mass., Engaged in Sexual Misconduct, Justice Dept. Says
Read Latest News The agency found that the Police Department used excessive force and allowed undercover officers to have sexual contact with women suspected of being prostitutes. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s…
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Trump Picks Strident Supporter for Civil Rights Post at Justice Dept.
Read Latest News Harmeet K. Dhillon has been a conservative activist so devoted to the president-elect that she was willing to attack not only Democrats but also fellow Republicans. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about!…
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Commerce Dept. Is on the Front Lines of China Policy
Read Latest News Over the past four years, the department has confronted the challenge of China by restricting key exports, a policy that is likely to continue in the Trump administration. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s…
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Memphis Police Used Excessive Force and Discriminated Against Black Residents, Justice Dept. Finds
Read Latest News The Police Department had been under scrutiny since January 2023, when officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, after pulling him over on his way home from work. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest…
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Hunter Biden Likely Wouldn’t Qualify for a Pardon Recommendation Under Justice Dept. Criteria
Read Latest News The Office of the Pardon Attorney mostly recommends full pardons for people who have already served their sentences. Hunter Biden has not been sentenced. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s…
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Justice Dept. Girds for a Test of Its Independence
Read Latest News President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to install loyalists have left officials fearful that he intends to carry out his threats of retribution but hopeful that rule-of-law norms can hold. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s…
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Trump Picks Brooke Rollins, a Conservative Lawyer, to Lead Agriculture Dept.
Read Latest News Ms. Rollins is the chief executive of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank created to promote President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved…
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Trump Picks Sean Duffy, Fox Stalwart, to Lead Transportation Dept.
Read Latest News President-elect Donald J. Trump nominated the former representative from Wisconsin, who is married to a Fox News host, to oversee a sprawling agency that includes aviation, rail and transit. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks…
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The Race to Lead Trump’s Treasury Dept. Is Becoming a Cliffhanger
Read Latest News Howard Lutnick? Scott Bessent? Marc Rowan? Kevin Warsh? The president-elect’s list of candidates has grown longer, clouding the future of the department. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved Finds…
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Trump Turns to His Personal Lawyers to Stock Top Ranks of Justice Dept.
Read Latest News The president-elect intends to nominate three members of his criminal defense team to senior roles, raising further concerns about politicization of the department. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved…
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Justice Dept. Reports Broad Civil Rights Abuses at Georgia Jail System
Read Latest News In a blunt report released on Thursday, the department said officials in Fulton County have had “deliberate indifference to the risks of harms.” Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved…
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Trump Picks RFK Jr. to Be Head of Health and Human Services Dept.
Read Latest News Whether the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who has unorthodox views about medicine, is an open question. Source Link ~ Read More News like this ~ Don’t Miss Amazon’s Top Treasures & Fan Favorites! Click to see the hottest picks everyone’s talking about! ~ AliExpress’s Most-Loved Finds…
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Israel not in violation of U.S. law, Gaza aid will be monitored: State Dept.
Read Latest News US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 9, 2024, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Alberto Pizzoli | AFP | Getty Images The United States…
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Justice Dept. to focus on ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated
Read Latest News WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the “most egregious” Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been arrested — in the remaining 72 days before President-elect Donald Trump is back in the White House, a law enforcement official…