A rare and contentious showdown among Democrats played out in public view on the Senate floor Tuesday as an animated Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) sparred with colleagues over passing bipartisan bills to bolster local police forces. Booker blocked an effort by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to pass a tranche of seven bipartisan law enforcement […]

The Trump administration moved Tuesday to keep Bill Essayli in charge of the Central District of California, extending the tenure of Los Angeles’s top federal prosecutor past his expired interim status by naming him acting United States attorney. Essayli, a former Republican state legislator and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, was initially appointed to […]

President Donald Trump’s recent account of how he broke off his friendship with the late, convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein sent shockwaves Tuesday. Trump told a gaggle of reporters aboard Air Force One that he banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort over a dispute about Epstein poaching employees. Trump’s association with Epstein is known, but […]

The Justice Department argued before an appeals court panel on Tuesday that the Trump administration should be allowed to continue with a Biden-era mass parole program for hundreds of thousands of migrants, leaning on a Supreme Court order issued in May as part of the argument. The three-judge panel on the United States Court of […]