President Donald Trump's administration is in need of prosecutors to help his "anti-crime agenda" and they're being mocked for taking to X to fill the positions. "If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me," Chad Mizelle, acting general counsel for Department of Homeland Security and former Department of Justice chief of staff under Trump, wrote on X on Saturday. "We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiring across the country. Now is your chance to join the mission and do good for our country."
Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. read more
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of U.S. ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets.
The protest in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named for the date of Italy's liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945, drew people from the left-leaning Democratic Party, the CGIL trade union confederation and the ANPI organizations that protect the memory of Italy's partisan resistance during World War II, along with many others.
Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes. read more
The New York Times interviews multiple people who were on a phone call with Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino. read more
"This was a bribe," wrote Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, in a social media post. "UAE royals gave the Trump family $500 million, and Trump, in his presidential capacity, gave them access to tightly guarded American AI chips. The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt."
Jesse Eisinger, reporter and editor at ProPublica, argued that the Abu Dhabi investment into the Trump cypto firm "should rank among the greatest US scandals ever."
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