President Donald’s Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, said on Tuesday he will not comply with a congressional subpoena, saying in part “if they enforce it then we will see what happens.”... [Read Full Story]
A Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot a woman in her home while she babysat her 8-year-old nephew has resigned from the force, and could still face criminal charges. Interim Police Chief Ed Krauss said on Monday that Officer Aaron Dean, who is white, would have been fired and is considered dishonorably discharged from the department. Krauss also said the U.S. Justice Department will examine the case for possible civil rights violations.... [Read Full Story]
Multiple statues of Christopher Columbus were vandalized amid continued calls to change the name of the federal holiday honoring the Italian explorer. Red paint, along with messages about genocide, were sprayed on landmarks in both San Francisco and Providence, Rhode Island... [Read Full Story]
Rescue crews continued to search for missing people after a typhoon caused serious damage in central and northern Japan, killing as many as 36 people.... [Read Full Story]
Questions and demands for justice remain after a white police officer killed a black woman, 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, inside her own home in Texas over the weekend. An attorney for Jefferson’s family, Lee Merritt, said after viewing video taken from a Fort Worth officer’s bodycam during the shooting that “You didn’t hear the officer shout, ‘Gun, gun, gun. He didn’t have time to perceive a threat. That’s murder.”... [Read Full Story]
Congressional Democrats issued a subpoena for U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday, regarding the possible role he played in President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival.... [Read Full Story]
According to court documents released Thursday, two associates of Rudy Giuliani — who have been linked to his investigations in Ukraine — have been indicted for campaign finance violations.... [Read Full Story]
Federal prosecutors have revealed that an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency in northern Virginia was arrested Wednesday, charged with leaking top secret information to two journalists, one of whom he was romantically involved with. The Justice Department says Henry Kyle Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Virginia, leaked government secrets involving a foreign country’s weapons system in 2018 and 2019.... [Read Full Story]
Turkey began a planned military offensive into northeastern Syria on Wednesday, launching airstrikes and artillery fire across the border. The airstrike comes just days after the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops back from the area.... [Read Full Story]
A Massachusetts children’s book author has been identified as one of five family members found shot to death in their home.... [Read Full Story]
Police said on Tuesday that arrest warrants have been issued for three suspects in the slaying of a man who testified at the high-profile trial last month of ex-police officer Amber Guyger in the wrong-apartment killing of Botham Jean. The witness, Joshua Brown, 28, was a former neighbor of Jean. Brown was gunned down on Friday night in what police described as a botched drug deal.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump signed a limited trade agreement on Monday with Japan, a deal that would win back benefits American farmers lost when Trump pulled out of a broader Asia-Pacific pact his first week in office. U.S. farmers have been operating at a disadvantage in Japan since Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which had been negotiated by the Obama administration. The other 11 Pacific Rim countries, including big farm producers such as New Zealand and Canada, went ahead without the United States and were enjoying preferential treatment in Japan.... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, President Donald Trump warned Turkey against “going too far” in Syria, one day after giving Ankara a green light to invade its southern neighbor. The Pentagon pulled back about two dozen of its forces from Syria’s northern frontier, where they serve as a buffer between the Turkish military and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, after Trump’s surprise announcement late Sunday that US forces “will no longer be in the immediate area.”... [Read Full Story]
The legal team representing the whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment inquiry against President Trump now says it is representing a second whistleblower described as an intelligence official with first-hand knowledge of the allegations against the president.... [Read Full Story]
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The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey admitted in federal court on Thursday that he stole $87,000 from a youth basketball team he founded. Mayor Frank Gillam Jr. told the judge he stole funds raised from donors in Atlantic City and Philadelphia for the Atlantic City Starz for personal expenses between 2013 and 2018. He was elected mayor in 2017 after serving as a City Councilman.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, the law firm representing the survivors and families of the 58 people killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 reached a settlement with MGM Resorts for at least $735 million.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign said that the Democratic presidential candidate had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and was canceling events and appearances “until further notice.”... [Read Full Story]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he listened in on the telephone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that prompted a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry against the President. “I was on the phone call,” Pompeo told reporters during a visit to Italy.... [Read Full Story]
Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker – who resigned his post last week after his name appeared in a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s dealings with the Ukraine — will testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry on Thursday.... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday, Amber Guyger — the white former Dallas police officer who said she fatally shot her unarmed, black neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own — was found guilty of murder after just a few hours of deliberation by the jury. The jury reached the verdict in Guyger’s high-profile trial for the killing of Botham Jean after six days of witness testimony... [Read Full Story]
A Justice Department official said on Monday that President Donald Trump sought help from the Australian prime minister to investigate the origins of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.... [Read Full Story]
On Monday, House Democrats subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for documents related to their investigation into Trump’s efforts to have Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.... [Read Full Story]
A veteran NYPD officer was shot and killed in New York City during a physical struggle with an armed suspect. The 27-year-old suspect was also shot and killed, police said.... [Read Full Story]
A man accused of driving an SUV through a suburban Chicago shopping mall was charged Sunday with a state terrorism and ordered held without bond.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, the Senate passed a short-term funding bill amid dispute over border wall funding that delays the risk of a government shutdown through Nov. 21.... [Read Full Story]
A whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump was made public on Thursday. In the complaint, it states that the White House officials were so concerned about what the president said in a July call with Ukraine’s new leader that they intervened to “lock down” the transcript of the conversation.... [Read Full Story]
The FBI has issued a warning regarding the potential for violence at theaters showing the upcoming movie “Joker,’ coming years after a mass shooting during a “Batman” movie in Colorado in 2012. According to multiple sources, authorities are concerned about the film’s plot inspiring someone to commit a mass shooting.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, President Trump defended his July phone call with Ukraine’s president, saying there was “no pressure” on him – even after a transcript of the call showed Trump urging his counterpart to open a probe related to Joe Biden.... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives will launch a formal inquiry into whether President Donald Trump should be impeached. In a press conference, Pelosi said: “today I’m announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I’m directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law.”... [Read Full Story]
