RT @meridithmcgraw: New: The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations….

RT @JessBravin: Trump’s federal takeover of DC police is unprecedented and its implementation remains unclear w/@sg….

The administration is deploying hundreds of federal agents throughout the district, including more than 100 from the @FBI, as part of its crackdown.

Violent crime in the city was down 35% last year from 2023, Justice Department data show, the lowest in more than 30 years. The data showed a decline in homicides, robberies, armed carjackings and assaults with a dangerous weapon.

RT @WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is intensifying its pursuit of some of the president’s most vocal Democratic critics, opening investi….

Also fired this week was Steven Jensen, head of @FBIWFO, whom Patel promoted in April and praised publicly as the embodiment of "what the American public demands of FBI agents.”. Patel's purge of @FBI employees over the past few months has cost the bureau decades of experience.

RT @VeraMBergen: The Trump administration is planning to house immigrant detainees in the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.….

RT @davidamichaels: New from me and with exclusive details on the HPE/JNPR settlement: MAGA-aligned lawyers and lobbyists are being hired t….

Also Tuesday, the administration was making plans to release audio recordings & a transcript of an interview last month between Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell and @DAGToddBlanche. Its contents have already been briefed to officials in the West Wing.

Pam Bondi on Monday signed an order directing a U.S. attorney to present evidence to the grand jury, an official said, and gave that person broad authority to also investigate outside the office’s jurisdiction. W/⁦@jdawsey1⁩ ⁦@brett_forrest⁩

RT @paul4thepress: It was one year ago today that Evan, Alsu, Paul, Vladimir and 12 others left Russian prison to return to their families….

RT @JessBravin: Across America, President Trump sees one emergency after another, and that is posing a host of challenges for the federal c….

RT @WSJ: Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal

RT @rebeccaballhaus: In May, Bondi and her deputy informed Trump at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, al….

RT @WSJ: Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files .

RT @WSJ: The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal court to publicly release grand-jury transcripts from the sex-trafficking cases o….

RT @aedurkinricher: NEW YORK (AP) — Justice Department asks court to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts amid firestorm over disgraced fi….

RT @rebeccaballhaus:

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” Comey wrote in a farewell email to colleagues. “Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”.

In 2024, Comey filed a declaration in federal court asking a judge to decline to make Epstein-related records public in response to a FOIA. Comey said the release of the records, which included witness statements and other materials, could interfere with any retrial of Maxwell.