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Trump administration ramps up denaturalization campaign, targeting U.S. citizens accused of crimes, fraud, terrorism

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The Trump administration on Friday announced a major expansion of its denaturalization campaign targeting foreign-born American citizens accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship. The Justice Department unveiled denaturalization cases in federal courts across the country against roughly a dozen U.S. citizens born overseas. Officials said they had committed serious crimes or immigration fraud, or had … Read more

Blanche calls Obama’s concerns about DOJ targeting Trump’s critics “extraordinarily rich”

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche denied to CBS News that the Justice Department is engaging in a retribution campaign against President Trump’s adversaries, pushing back on criticism from former President Barack Obama — but he argued Mr. Trump has vast power to oversee the agency. The Justice Department — which Blanche has led since last … Read more

Blanche: Obama’s concerns about DOJ targeting Trump critics are “extraordinarily rich”

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said it’s “extraordinarily rich” for former President Barack Obama to say he’s concerned about the “politicization of the criminal justice system” under the Trump administration. “There’s something extraordinarily rich about a Democrat suggesting that this administration is charging our political adversaries,” Blanche told CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez. Source link

Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy makes targeting Western Hemisphere cartels the top priority

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday. The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the … Read more

RFK Jr. unveils initiative targeting ‘overuse’ of psychiatric medications, especially among children

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday unveiled a new initiative targeting what he described as the “overuse” of psychiatric medications, part of a broader push to confront the nation’s mental health crisis. Speaking Monday at a Make America Healthy Again Institute … Read more

Romanian man sentenced to prison for swatting spree targeting dozens of US officials

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WASHINGTON — A Romanian man was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison for organizing a wave of swatting calls and bomb threats against dozens of U.S. government targets, including members of Congress, cabinet-level officials, federal judges and the heads of federal law-enforcement agencies, according to prosecutors. Thomasz Szabo, 27, was a prolific participant … Read more

Supreme Court unanimously slaps down blue state targeting pro-life group

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Supreme Court has unanimously sided with a faith-based “crisis pregnancy center” that challenged the New Jersey attorney general’s investigation into whether it misled donors and the public about steering women away from having abortions. The case was brought by First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a group … Read more

Blanche says authorities believe suspect in attack at press dinner was targeting Trump administration officials

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Washington — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that investigators believe the armed man who charged a security checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was targeting members of President Trump’s administration. “We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the … Read more

Suspected shooter was likely targeting Trump administration officials, acting US attorney general says

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he believes the suspected gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was targeting administration officials, noting “we’re still looking into” whether President Donald Trump was specifically targeted. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Blanche stressed that the investigation was … Read more