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Far Right’s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.’s Top Ranks

For all his bluster, the F.B.I.’s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.

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Protesters scaling the Capitol walls on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Wednesday’s release of files related to Epstein is only a subset of the documents on him.

The emails are the latest disclosure in a sex-trafficking scandal that still occupies a central role in American politics six years after the disgraced financier was found dead in a Manhattan prison cell.

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A demonstrator near the Capitol urging for the release of the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election

The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.

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Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, at a commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan in September.
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Maryland Sues FBI Over Relocation of Headquarters

The move prolongs the dispute over the F.B.I.’s headquarters, an aging colossus veiled in netting to keep concrete from falling on passers-by.

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Maryland sued the Trump administration on Thursday for abandoning an agreement to move the F.B.I. from its Washington headquarters to Prince George’s County.
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Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey

The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.

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Former F.B.I. director James B. Comey as he appeared during the hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017.
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Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Moves From Defense to Counterattack

The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.

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Jack Smith still has the capacity to inflict significant political damage by discrediting the MAGA narrative that President Trump did nothing wrong.
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Judge Rebukes Justice Dept. Over Efforts to Obtain Confidential Patient Details

In a scathing order, a judge in Washington State said the government’s real purpose was to intimidate providers into dropping or paring back transgender care.

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Judge Jamal N. Whitehead of Federal District Court in the Western District of Washington cited Attorney General Pam Bondi’s provocative public statements about transgender people and gender-related medical care in is ruling.
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