Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) tore into President Donald Trump over the Friday night purge of FBI agents involved with criminal investigations into him. The D.C. Field Office, in particular, has seen a wave of firings.
Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what became the largest prosecution in the department’s history.
A group representing FBI agents issued a rare public warning of the potential for hundreds of firings at the nation's top law enforcement agency.
ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations.
The group, Justice Connection, intends to support employees who say they are facing professional and ethical crises under the new administration. It is likely to come under attack from Trump allies.
Three days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared an early accomplishment: the arrest, and deportation, of hundreds of immigrants she alleged were convicted of crimes. “We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,” Trump told reporters the next day.
Virginia Democrats raised alarms about the Trump order's potential effects. Gov. Glenn Youngkin said the president's freeze would not interrupt individual assistance, disaster relief or school and child care funding.
A Town Creek woman was arrested Friday in Morgan County on a charge of trafficking methamphetamine and five failure to appear warrants, according to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office. Wendy Leann Word,
A substitute teacher for Norwalk Public Schools faces charges for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to middle school students, according to police.
Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign him to a new role working on immigration issues,
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against ...
The firings come as a Trump appointee opened an internal review of the department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses.