Watch: DOJ gives update on charges against correspondents’ dinner suspect | Special Report

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro spoke to reporters Monday about the initial charges against the suspect in Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Tony Dokoupil anchored CBS News’ special report. Source link

Group says it won’t drop its White House ballroom lawsuit, despite DOJ pressure

The National Trust for Historic Preservation said Monday that it will not drop its lawsuit to halt construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, despite the Justice Department’s request. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “We are not planning to voluntarily dismiss our lawsuit, which … Read more

National Trust says it won’t drop suit against Trump’s ballroom after DOJ request

WASHINGTON — Preservationists are pressing ahead with their lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom, declining a request by the Department of Justice to withdraw the complaint following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Trump and other conservatives have made a renewed push for the ballroom in … Read more

DOJ cites White House Correspondents Dinner shooting in push to drop lawsuit against ballroom

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Justice Department is pressing the leading opposition to President Donald Trump’s $400 million privately funded ballroom project, calling on lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) to drop their lawsuit. “[Y]our lawsuit puts the lives of the president, his family, and his staff at … Read more

Michigan governor hopeful pressed on past SPLC work after DOJ indictment: ‘What did Jocelyn know?’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s campaign hit back at Republican attacks Friday after the state GOP demanded answers from the Democratic gubernatorial front-runner on her past work with the federally-indicted Southern Poverty Law Center. Benson is a former volunteer and later board member of the SPLC, … Read more

DOJ to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13 executions during the … Read more

Trump DOJ jumps into Musk xAI court battle as diversity fight heats up

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice joined forces with Elon Musk on Friday by backing a lawsuit his company xAI brought against Colorado alleging a state law regulating artificial intelligence developers was a masked effort to force them to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion on their platforms. DOJ Civil … Read more

DOJ aims to strip citizenship from hundreds of foreign-born Americans, sources say

The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration’s effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A Justice Department official told NBC … Read more