US House Speaker Mike Johnson has called for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail in 2019. Johnson’s remarks come as President Donald Trump and his administration are under fire from conservatives who demand full disclosure in the Epstein case. In a podcast, Johnson told conservative host…
US President Donald Trump (AP image) US President Donald Trump has urged his supporters and allies to stop attacking Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying she is doing an excellent job and should be allowed to focus on her work. In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump appealed for unity within the MAGA movement and…
US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to issue a strong defence of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has come under fire from some within the MAGA movement following the release of a controversial memo on the Epstein Files. The memo, which concluded that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and contained no ‘client list,’…
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities. The wave of departures has…
Two federal judges on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to arguments from elite law firms asking for definitive relief from President Trump’s executive orders targeting them. Lawyers for two firms, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale, have asked the courts to permanently block the Trump administration from carrying out the orders, arguing that the measures are so blatantly unconstitutional…
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised to Harvard University? The administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from college…
US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a warning to illegal immigrants after the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to resume deportation flights. The court decision lifted a temporary pause imposed by a judge appointed under the Obama administration. This is being considered a big victory for President Donald Trump’s push to…
President Trump’s social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, filed to re-register for sale billions of dollars’ worth of shares that he has in the company and that are held in a trust overseen by his eldest son. The registration statement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, permits the trust to…
The Department of Justice said on Thursday that it would investigate whether several California universities were complying with the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning the consideration of race in admissions. The checks, which the Justice Department described as “compliance review investigations,” would target Stanford University and three schools in the University of California system —…
For days, Attorney General Pam Bondi had talked about releasing the “Epstein files,” supposedly secret documents the federal government has on some of the powerful men who were in the orbit of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. But the roughly 200 pages of documents that Ms. Bondi released on Thursday contained little new information pointing…