Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows seeks reimbursement from DOJ for legal fees incurred in Trump-related probes

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is asking the Justice Department to reimburse him for legal fees he incurred in multiple federal and state investigations into President Trump, according to sources with direct knowledge of the request. The request comes at the same time the Justice Department is also fielding a variety of … Read more

DHS watchdog paused some probes of immigration enforcement amid shutdown

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has paused an ongoing audit of no-bid contracts due to the continuing shutdown of funding to the agency, as well as reviews of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities and instances of possible use of excessive force in immigration enforcement, according to a DHS official and … Read more

UK scraps police probes of legal social media posts after review says response went too far

UK scales back policing of social media posts Fox News senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports on the U.K. Home Office’s decision to stop policing certain social media posts and refocus on tackling ‘real’ crime on ‘America Reports.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United Kingdom Home Office announced that police … Read more

DOJ probes California, Maine over transgender inmate housing policies

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice on Thursday launched civil rights investigations into prison systems in California and Maine over policies allowing transgender inmates to be housed in women’s facilities, citing concerns about female inmates’ safety. The probes will examine whether the states are engaged in a “pattern or … Read more

Reporter’s Notebook: GOP eyes DHS deal funding ICE probes, but not removals, as shutdown drags

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This is cobbled together talking to senior Senate Republican sources. Senate Republicans are developing a plan to fund most aspects of DHS — leaving out controversial programs like certain ICE operations — to end the five-and-a-half week partial government shutdown. This emerged after a meeting at the … Read more

Colombian President Gustavo Petro caught up in multiple narcotics trafficking probes, sources say

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is the subject of several ongoing narcotics trafficking investigations being overseen by federal prosecutors in New York, sources told CBS News on Friday. The separate narco-trafficking investigations, based out of New York’s Southern and Eastern districts, did not set out to target Petro initially, but his name has come up during … Read more

Protective detail requested for housing official who asked for probes of NY atty general, Fed governor, Sen. Adam Schiff, sources say

The Health and Human Services watchdog’s office has been asked to provide a temporary security detail for Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, sources with direct knowledge of the request tell CBS News.  The request for the security detail from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General is unusual because Pulte’s … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Trump rejects shielding Biden records from Senate probes in executive privilege showdown

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump rejected former President Joe Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over a tranche of documents requested by the Senate as part of various probes into the 46th president, determining it is “not in the best interests of the United States.”  White House counsel David … Read more

FBI head Kash Patel celebrates with men’s hockey team amid major probes in U.S.

That referred to the Mar-a-Lago intrusion, which happened while Trump was in the White House rather than Florida; violence that erupted in Mexico after its army killed the country’s most wanted drug lord; and the weekslong search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “TODAY” co-host Savannah Guthrie. Former FBI special agent Michael Feinberg was … Read more