Conservative tech critic seen as leading candidate to oversee DOJ’s antitrust division, sources say

The leading candidate to oversee the Justice Department’s antimonopoly enforcement has been a critic of the tech sector and is a government lawyer who led an effort to crack down on social media companies during President Trump’s first term.  Adam Candeub is being considered for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, sources familiar with … Read more

WHO director says he will personally oversee hantavirus cruise evacuation

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he will personally oversee the painstaking process of evacuating more than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus. “I will be there myself,” Tedros said in a letter addressed to the people of the Canary Islands, where … Read more

Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says

Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump’s campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election, is being tapped by the U.S. Justice Department to lead an ongoing criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, a Justice Department official said on Saturday. DiGenova, who will oversee the probe from the … Read more

Rand Paul to oversee confirmation hearing of Trump’s DHS pick who once blasted him as a ‘snake’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a confirmation hearing ready to go, and he will have to reckon with an intraparty feud in the process. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will soon undergo the rigorous confirmation process in the Senate after … Read more