Ana Reyes wants to know whether federal officials lied about extent of renovation plans at East Potomac golf course

A federal judge said on Saturday that she intended to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor who served during Donald Trump’s first term to investigate whether she was purposely misled by lawyers and administration officials over changes to a historic public golf course in Washington DC.

Jessie Liu, a former US attorney for the District of Columbia, would examine whether officials with the interior department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice violated ethics or misled US district judge Ana Reyes during the course of the civil case that was initiated with a lawsuit in February by the DC Preservation League and two golfers.

Unusual instance of three states administering the death penalty on the same day previously happened in 2010

Alabama, Florida and Indiana all carried out executions on Thursday in an unusual instance of three states administering the death penalty on the same day.

In a record-tying 19th execution of the year, Florida executed Jesse Guardado via a three-drug lethal injection. Guardado had pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton county home in 2004 before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to buy drugs. The woman had helped him get a job and housing.

President’s lawyers ask appeals court to toss criminal trial verdict over $130,000 sent to Stormy Daniels

Donald Trump’s legal team on Thursday continued efforts to get his 2024 conviction in the hush-money election corruption case thrown out.

Attorneys for the US president are trying to persuade a New York appeals court to toss the criminal trial verdict from May 2024, when Trump was found guilty on all charges of falsifying business records in the hush-money corruption scheme to influence his eventual victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Firefighters and police among injured as officials investigate lithium-ion battery found at scene in Sunset Park

Six people died in a fire that roared through a residential home in New York early on Thursday and nine others were injured, including three firefighters and two police officers, the city authorities said.

The major fire was reported in the early hours in Brooklyn and brought more than 200 first responders rushing to attend to the blaze and those trapped by it, in the city borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood.