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Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI is doing everything it can to get “justice” for Laken Riley, the college student who was murdered by a migrant in the country illegally, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at the University of Georgia on Tuesday. Laken Riley, a student at Georgia’s Augusta University, was killed […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is continuing to rail against the $464 million judgment in his New York civil fraud case, claiming Judge Arthur Engoron is trying to take away his rights and that he could be forced to sell his properties at “fire sale prices.” “Judge Engoron actually wants me […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a brief with the Supreme Court making his formal argument for why he should be granted absolute presidential immunity from criminal prosecution — asking the justices to dismiss a four-count federal indictment over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County, Mississippi, sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton were sentenced in federal court on Tuesday after pleading guilty, along with five additional former law enforcement officers, to a total of 16 charges related to the January 2023 torture of two Black men. Elward, who pleaded guilty to […]
POOL/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday, one day after the Supreme Court denied a stay of his sentence. He was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee that investigated the […]
John Nacion/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Grace Jabbari, the ex-girlfriend of Jonathan Majors, whom he was convicted of assaulting in a trial last year, has sued the actor for defamation and other alleged injuries, according to the civil complaint. ABC News’ Rachel Wenzlaff contributed to this report. This is a developing story. Please check back […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The presidential nominations are locked up — but the primaries remain, along with any tea leaves they may provide. Ohio’s GOP Senate primary is the headliner Tuesday, with car salesman Bernie Moreno considered by several strategists to be the slight favorite, running with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement against state […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Six former Rankin County, Mississippi, law enforcement officers are set to be sentenced beginning Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from the racially motivated torture of two Black men during an incident that took place on Jan. 24, 2023. Former Rankin County sheriff’s (RCSO) deputies Brett McAlpin, […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of President Joe Biden making campaign stops on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada, advisers are laying out why they still place him in a better position than former President Donald Trump to win those two key battlegrounds, despite Biden’s mediocre polling in the early lead-up to the […]
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a United States ban on the ongoing use of chrysotile asbestos — a carcinogen that the agency estimates is linked to more than 40,000 U.S. deaths each year. The announcement comes as part of President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, which is […]