ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s Taliban killed eight ISIS terrorists and arrested nine others in a series of raids targeting key figures in a spate of attacks in Kabul, a senior Taliban spokesman said Thursday. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, said the raids in the capital city and western Nimroz province on Wednesday targeted ISIS terrorists who organized […]
BEIRUT—American forces on Sunday killed two ISIS terrorists in eastern Syria in a helicopter raid, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. ISIS sleeper calls continue to carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq. For a few years, the group ruled swathes of both countries but lost its last stronghold in 2019. U.S. Central […]
The Democratic National Committee voted Friday to drastically change its 2024 presidential nominating calendar. It comes after President Joe Biden last week suggested changing which state gets to be the first primary state. The Mar-a-Lago raid saga continues with the special counsel asking the court to halt the independent review of documents seized by the […]
Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith on Thanksgiving made his first public move since being tasked with leading the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump violated the Espionage Act and other federal laws with Trump’s handling of certain records, including records with classified markings. Assertions by Trump’s attorney are “incorrect,” Smith said in a brief, […]
Some conservatives have raised questions about the impartiality of the newly-appointed special council on former President Donald Trump’s case, Jack Smith, after it emerged that his wife donated to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and produced a film for former First Lady Michelle Obama. On Nov. 18 Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith to be […]
A Trump-era deputy attorney general has weighed in on the Department of Justice’s appointment of a special counsel to lead two criminal probes into the former president, calling it a “discretionary decision” rather than an obvious necessity and saying he likely wouldn’t have done so. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel […]
The FBI team that seized documents from former president Donald Trump’s resort improperly viewed communications between Trump and an attorney, violating attorney-client privilege for a third time, lawyers for Trump said in a new filing. The filter process set up by the government to try to prevent FBI agents from viewing privileged materials has already […]
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers are seeking another delay in allowing lawyers for former President Donald Trump to peruse documents seized in August from Trump’s Florida estate. The DOJ was supposed to provide electronic copies of the documents to Trump attorneys and U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master in the case, no […]
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Sept. 23 proposed restrictions on access to documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August, and penalties for people who break the restrictions if they are put in place. The lawyers proposed to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee overseeing disputes over the documents, that access to the […]
The U.S. judge in charge of disputes over records seized from former President Donald Trump’s home on Sept. 22 blocked the special master she appointed from viewing records with classified markings taken from Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, removed the approximately 100 documents marked classified from her earlier order’s definition of […]
