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The Supreme Court fight over abortion pill mifepristone: What's next?

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide whether women seeking access to a widely used abortion pill would face more restrictions while a court case plays out. But on the day of the highly anticipated decision the justices had only this to say: We need more time.In a one-sentence order, the court said it now expects to act by Friday evening.

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Hunter Biden charged with federal tax and weapons offenses, reaches agreement with Justice Department

World Food Program USA Board Chairman Hunter Biden (L) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attend the World Food Program USAs Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.

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Donald Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges in classified docs case

Former U.S. president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of federal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified materials after he left the White House, a historic moment for the United States and its Justice Department.

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Secret Chinese police outpost revealed in NY; 2 men arrested

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Ohio 'incel' pleads guilty in plot to 'slaughter' thousands of sorority girls

Tres Genco pleaded guilty to plotting to "slaughter" 3,000 sorority girls. (Butler County) A self-described "incel," or "involuntary celibate," from Ohio on Tuesday pleaded guilty to plotting a mass shooting of about 3,000 women, including sorority girls, according to the Department of Justice.Tres Genco, 22, of Hillsboro admitted to planning a hate crime to shoot women at an Ohio university in 2021.Genco wrote a manifesto in which he stated that he would "slaughter" women "out of hatred, jealousy and revenge," referring to death as the "great equalizer." In another note obtained by law enforcement, Genco said he wanted to "aim big" for a 3,000-person kill count, according to the DOJ.The day he wrote his manifesto, Genco searched online for sororities and for information on the Ohio university where he planned to conduct the attack.

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DOJ: Postal workers arrested for allegedly stealing credit cards, identities from mail

A USPS logo is seen on a mailbox on February 24, 2021, in New York City. (Photo by John Smith/VIEWpress via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Several workers with the U.S.

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Former NSA employee charged with trying to sell secret US information

FILE - The seals of the U.S. Cyber Command, the National Secrity Agency and the Central Security Service greet employees and visitors at the campus the three organizations share March 13, 2015 in Fort Meade, Maryland.

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Judge will likely appoint special master to review Trump records seized by FBI

Florida told the Justice Department on Saturday to provide her with more specific information about the classified records removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate and said it was her "preliminary intent" to appoint a special master in the case.The two-page order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon signals that she’s inclined to grant a request from Trump’s lawyers, who this week asked for the appointment of an independent special master to oversee the review the records taken from Mar-a-Lago and identify any that may be protected by executive privilege, and to ensure the return of any documents outside the scope of the search warrant.Former U.S.

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Redacted affidavit in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago search released by Justice Department

WASHINGTON - Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month's search of the property.The 32-page affidavit, even in its heavily redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House and reveals the gravity of the government's concerns that the documents were there illegally.Mobile app users, click here to view the redacted affidavit"The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records," an FBI agent wrote on the first page of the affidavit in seeking a judge's permission for a warrant to search the property.The affidavit does not provide new details about the 11 sets of classified records recovered during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago but instead concerns a separate batch of 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved from the home in January.In those boxes, according to the affidavit, officials located 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 documents marked as top secret.

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Biden's canceling of student loans relies on pandemic, 2003 law

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is tying its authority to cancel student debt to the coronavirus pandemic and to a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. Legal challenges are expected.Skeptics of the administration's ability to act on its own, without new legislation, had once included President Joe Biden himself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.But in a legal opinion released Wednesday, the Justice Department said that the HEROES Act of 2003 gives the administration "sweeping authority" to reduce or eliminate student debt during a national emergency, "when significant actions with potentially far-reaching consequences are often required."RELATED: Student loan forgiveness: Biden unveils plan to cancel $10K in student debtThe law was adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support at a time when U.S.

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Who is Cassidy Hutchinson? Trump White House aide now in spotlight

WASHINGTON - Just two years out of college, Cassidy Hutchinson watched as a valet mopped up the president's lunch after he smashed his plate against the wall. Donald Trump was in a rage because his attorney general had refuted his claims that the election he lost had been stolen.The 25-year-old Hutchinson, who was an aide to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, made several shocking revelations about Trump and Meadows in nationally televised testimony before a House committee investigating the Jan.

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US seizes Russian-owned superyacht Amadea in Fiji after legal win

Amadea (Credit: US DOJ) WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The United States won a legal battle on Tuesday to seize a Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji and wasted no time in taking command of the $325 million vessel and sailing it away from the South Pacific nation.The court ruling represented a significant victory for the U.S. as it encounters obstacles in its attempts to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs around the world.

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Haitian gang leader charged in kidnapping of 16 US missionaries

FILE - Merrick Garland, U.S. attorney general, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C.

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Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Scavino, Navarro in contempt

Director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro looks on as President Donald Trump meets with supply chain distributors in reference to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in the Cabinet Room in the West Wing at the White House on Sunday, March 2 (Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

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Trump engaged in 'criminal conspiracy' Jan. 6 panel claims

President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the "Stop The Steal" Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Committee investigating the U.S.

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Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago home, National Archives says

Former President Donald Trump speaks during the 'Save America' rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. T (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Classified information was found in the 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, the National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter that confirmed the matter has been sent to the Justice Department.The Friday letter from the agency follows numerous reports around Trump's handling of sensitive and even classified information during his time as president and after he left the White House.

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NY couple tries to launder billions of stolen cryptocurrency, feds claim

NEW YORK - A New York couple was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency that was stolen in a 2016 hack of a virtual currency exchange, the Justice Department said.Besides the arrests, federal law enforcement officials also revealed that the Justice Department has seized roughly $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.The stolen cryptocurrency, valued at $71 million at the time of the theft, is now valued at $4.5 billion, officials said.Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday morning and face federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States. It was unclear if they had lawyers or people who could speak on their behalf."Today, federal law enforcement demonstrates once again that we can follow money through the blockchain, and that we will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A.

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Temple University prof seeks reinstatement of damage claims against FBI

WASHINGTON - A Temple University physics professor who was charged with sharing scientific technology with China only for the case to collapse before trial and be dismissed by the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate his clams for damages against the U.S. government.Lawyers for Xiaoxing Xi and his wife say in a brief filed Monday with a Philadelphia-based appeals court that a judge erred last year when he dismissed most of the claims in their federal lawsuit.

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President Trump tried to seize voting machines during 2020 election, report says

NEW YORK - About six weeks after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he told his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to contact the Department of Homeland Security to ask if the department could lawfully seize voting machines in key swing states, according to a report in The New York Times. Giuliani contacted a top official there, but was rebuffed, the paper says.Shortly before the DHS episode, the President had an Oval Office meeting with Attorney General William Barr, according to The Times. President Trump broached the idea with Barr that the Justice Department, which Barr led, could take machines.

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Former Trump aide Steve Bannon indicted for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

Steve Bannon was indicted on Friday by a federal grand jury on charges of contempt of Congress. Congress vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt amid U.S.

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U.S. Capitol insurrection panel votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress

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US Navy nuclear engineer, wife charged with espionage-related crime

WASHINGTON - A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.In a criminal complaint detailing espionage-related charges against Jonathan Toebbe, the government said he sold information for nearly the past year to a contact he believed represented a foreign power.

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DOJ limits use of chokeholds, no-knock entries by federal officers

WASHINGTON - U.S. federal law enforcement officers are prohibited from the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints — unless deadly force is authorized — and limited on the use of no-knock entries during a search warrant, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. "Building trust and confidence between law enforcement and the public we serve is central to our mission at the Justice Department," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

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PHAC head doubles down, withholds docs on fired scientists as House reprimand looms

House of Commons for his refusal to produce the information.PHAC president Iain Stewart told the Commons health committee Friday that he is bound by law to protect national security and privacy rights.And he said nothing in a House order demanding that he produce the documents relieves him of that obligation.“I am a career public servant and, as a career public servant, I am required to follow the law,” Stewart told the committee.

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Colonial Pipeline cyberattack ransom recovered, feds say

Out of order notes are left on gasoline pumps to let motorists know the pumps are empty at a Shell gas station in Woodbridge, Virginia on May 12, 2021. - Fears the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline because of a cyberattack would cause a gasoline shor WASHINGTON - The U.S.

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