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The lead juror at Roger Stone’s trial said in a written questionnaire that she was “not sure” whether she posted online about the Russia investigation, though her Twitter feed shows that she posted multiple stories about the probe. Tomeka Hart’s responses on the jury questionnaire, a portion of which was obtained by the DCNF, are at the heart of Stone’s ...

An FBI agent faulted for some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department’s inspector general report of FISA abuse against a Trump campaign associate has been identified as Stephen A. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator who works out of the FBI’s New York field office. The New York Times, citing people familiar with the FBI’s Russia probe, ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday accused Rep. Adam Schiff of leaking details of a briefing that intelligence community officials provided Congress earlier this month regarding Russian meddling in the 2020 election. “Just another Shifty Schiff leak. Isn’t there a law about this stuff?” Trump wrote on Twitter in reference to a tweet from CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge. Trump did ...

Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., have agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve their potential criminal and civil liability stemming from a practice between 2002 and 2016 of pressuring employees to meet unrealistic sales goals that led thousands of employees to provide millions of accounts or products to customers under false pretenses or without ...

Greyhound, the largest bus company in the United States, announced that it will no longer allow Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration checks on their buses without a warrant. The major bus company revealed in an email statement on Friday that it no longer consents to any Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers conducting unwarranted searches ...

In a clear shift to the left, former Vice President Joe Biden has pledged to put a hold on all deportations during his first 100 days in office and to then only remove illegal aliens who have committed a felony. Biden participated in a CNN town hall event in Nevada on Thursday night, just days before the state heads to ...

Pro-abortion 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden touted his Catholic faith in a February campaign video saying, “I go to mass, I pray the rosary.” The former vice president released a campaign video Tuesday titled “Faith,” in which Biden discusses Catholicism and discusses how his Catholic faith helped him through deaths of loved ones in his immediate family. “Faith is what ...

Michael Bloomberg’s campaign office in Knoxville, Tennessee was vandalized Thursday evening with “Fuck Bloomberg” spraypainted on its door. Bloomberg campaign manager Kevin Sheekey issued a statement Friday saying the vandalism “echoes language from the Sanders campaign and its supporters,” but also saying that they don’t know who’s responsible for the action. “We call on Bernie Sanders to immediately condemn these ...

Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized President Trump as “Putin’s puppet” on Friday in response to reports that U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers that Russia is meddling in the 2020 presidential campaign to help Trump. “Putin’s Puppet is at it again, taking Russian help for himself,” Clinton wrote on Twitter in response to an NBC News report that confirmed ...

While every pregnancy case has its own individual details, the arrival of pregnant foreign nationals for the sole purpose of giving birth on American soil, a phenomenon known as birth tourism, is well documented. The Center for Immigration Studies, for example, estimated that tens of thousands of foreign nationals on temporary visas give birth in the U.S. every year.

Attorney General William Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs” — areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing to focus on stopping drugs being smuggled across the border, DEA’s Operation Crystal Shield will ramp up enforcement ...

An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) pleaded guilty today to charges related to his disclosure of classified national defense information (NDI) to two journalists in 2018 and 2019. “Frese violated the trust placed in him by the American people when he disclosed sensitive national security information for personal gain,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who vowed when she announced her White House bid last year not to take “a dime of PAC money in this campaign,” refused Thursday to disavow a super PAC raising money to support her candidacy. “Do you want the super PAC supporting you to stand down?” a reporter asked Warren outside of a campaign stop in Nevada. ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Roger Stone to 40 months in prison Thursday. On Feb. 10, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington recommended that Stone serve between 87 months and 108 months in jail for his crimes. President Donald Trump responded hours later, saying the recommendation was “disgraceful” and a “miscarriage of justice.” The Justice Department ...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign team wants the rest of his Democratic opponents to drop out of the presidential race so he can take on Sen. Bernie Sanders, man to man. Sanders will become unstoppable if former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t bow out, Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s top strategist, told Axios Wednesday. The self-avowed Democratic socialist will ...