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Patel Plays the Familiar Role of Pugilist at a Senate Hearing

16 septembre 2025 à 20:33
The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar partisan groove that appeared to play to his strengths.

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“I’m not going anywhere!” Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She’ll Target ‘Hate Speech’

16 septembre 2025 à 15:07
The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters as the Trump administration pushes to punish anyone who celebrated his killing.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi later appeared to back away from a broad interpretation of her remarks on “hate speech,” which had raised free speech concerns.

F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out on ‘Broken’ Trust

16 septembre 2025 à 09:32
The two agents’ accounts offer an inside view of a bureau buffeted by politics and upheaval, adding to the scrutiny of the F.B.I. director as he prepares to testify to Congress.

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“We were always told that we would be taken care of and there would not be any retaliation for our assigned work,” Walter Giardina told his supervisors the day he was fired from his job as an F.B.I. agent, according to the 19-year bureau veteran.
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Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk Killing

12 septembre 2025 à 17:04
The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already resulted in lost jobs, suspensions and internal investigations, heightening tensions online between supporters and detractors of Charlie Kirk.

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People attending a vigil for Charlie Kirk at a park in Orem, Utah, on Thursday.

As Political Violence Rises, Trump Condemns One Side

11 septembre 2025 à 18:23
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump captured the raw sentiment of his conservative base. But he addressed only part of the alarming cycle of violence in America.

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A woman prayed at a memorial for Charlie Kirk at the headquarters of Turning Point USA.

Charlie Kirk Assassination Raises Fear of Surging Political Violence

10 septembre 2025 à 22:49
Initial expressions of grief and shock were overtaken by open calls for reckoning and vengeance, as some proclaimed the country was on the brink of civil war.

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Among those studying the public’s appetite for political violence — a fast-growing discipline in American academia — the mood on Wednesday was grim.

Trump White House Exerts Enormous Influence Over FBI, Lawsuit Says

10 septembre 2025 à 13:19
A sprawling suit by three fired F.B.I. officials provides a disturbing account of efforts by top Trump aides to strip the bureau of its independence.

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A lawsuit filed by three former F.B.I. officials charges the bureau director Kash Patel dismissed them as part of “a campaign of retribution” for their “failure to demonstrate sufficient personal and political loyalty.”

Trial Begins for Ryan Routh, Man Charged in Trump Assassination Attempt in Florida

8 septembre 2025 à 16:35
Ryan Routh has pleaded not guilty and plans to defend himself in court. The most serious charge against him carries a sentence of up to life in prison.

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The trial for Ryan W. Routh, the person accused of trying to assassinate President Trump, will take place in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown

6 septembre 2025 à 05:02
The persistent rejections suggest that the grand jurors may have had enough of prosecutors seeking harsh charges in a highly politicized environment.

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Grand jurors have refused in at least seven recent cases to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in the president’s show of force.

Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation

5 septembre 2025 à 18:15
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.

N.Y. Attorney General Sues Far-Right Group VDARE for Misusing Funds

3 septembre 2025 à 12:35
The suit says the nonprofit’s leaders — who helped bring anti-immigrant ideas into the G.O.P. mainstream — used donor money to buy a castle-like home.

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Peter and Lydia Brimelow, leaders of the anti-immigration nonprofit VDARE, are being sued by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, for allegedly misusing funds to purchase a medieval-style castle in West Virginia.

Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

3 septembre 2025 à 18:11
The defense secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.

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The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday. The Pentagon has been amassing a small armada of warships in the southern Caribbean.

Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

2 septembre 2025 à 21:17
The vessel was transporting illegal narcotics through international waters to the United States, the president said.

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President Trump signed a still-secret directive in July instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations.

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

3 septembre 2025 à 09:39
The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was the first time that federal appellate judges had weighed in on the substantive question of whether President Trump had properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

2 septembre 2025 à 19:25
The vessel was transporting illegal narcotics through international waters to the United States, the president said.

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President Trump signed a still-secret directive in July instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations.

Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation

31 août 2025 à 14:56
One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

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The lawyer Mark McCloskey in 2021. He wants to establish what he calls a “voluntary nonjudicial resolution committee” that would consider rioters’ cases individually, and says he met with top Justice Department officials recently.

Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents

29 août 2025 à 13:10
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.

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Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.
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