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President Donald Trump is demanding that Attorney General William Barr prosecute his political opponents over the FBI’s Russia probe, but the string of documents declassified from the investigation led by US Attorney John Durham in recent weeks that Trump is using to justify his outrage are in fact another sign
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Sidley Austin has agreed to improve its tracking of demographic statistics on summer associate applicants, associate bonuses and staff member promotions to settle allegations that it failed to adequately collect
A undercover drug investigation in Lee County involving one of the
Cal Fire has opened an investigation into allegations that private firefighters set illegal backfires to protect properties threatened by the Glass Fire, a spokesman said Wednesday evening.
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A hand crew monitors a backfire set behind homes to fight the Glass Fire burning along Tucker
AUSTIN — The outside lawyer Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tapped to look into a complaint from an Austin developer says he is still working on the investigation despite serious objections from Paxton’s top deputies.
In an interview with The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, Brandon Cammack said Paxton had
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Sushant Singh Rajput’s case continues to grab attention in national media. In the midst of all this, the AIIMS medical board submitted its conclusive report to the CBI. The central agency has also issued a statement while clarifying that the probe in the late actor’s case
WASHINGTON — Former Trump administration national security adviser John
Every Senate Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, including vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, signed a letter asking the Department of Justice Inspector General to open an investigation into whether a DOJ probe into the Russia investigation is being used for partisan politics ahead of the November election.
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Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again?
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Former FBI Director James Comey, whose 2017 dismissal by President Donald Trump unleashed a broader investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia
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