Elias Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for fatally shooting two Israeli embassy employees in Washington. The Chicago-born suspect told police he did it for Palestine. The White House condemned the attack as anti-Semitism and vowed full prosecution. President Trump expressed outrage and called for eradicating anti-Semitism from society. Source link
Kelly Ortberg President and CEO of Boeing speaks next to President Donald Trump during a business roundtable in Doha, Qatar (Image: AP) The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to a…
In January after assuming presidency, Donald Trump passed an executive order to end birthright citizenship (Image: AP) The US Supreme Court hears a case Thursday that could result in a radical reversal of constitutional interpretation and sharply curb the judiciary’s ability to rein in Donald Trump — or future American presidents.The case before the top…
For the past three weeks, the Justice Department and Google have questioned more than two dozen witnesses to try to sway a federal judge’s decision over how to address the company’s illegal monopoly in internet search. On Friday, that hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to conclude. To…
Hours after Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second term, he issued an executive order laying the groundwork for mass deportations of immigrants and denying them legal assistance. Public interest groups focused on immigrant rights teamed up to fight the order and called in Gibson Dunn, a major law firm with the resources…
A former assistant admissions director at Emmanuel College in Boston was arrested Friday and accused of soliciting an underage applicant for sex, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors charged the director, Jacob Henriques, 29, with one count of attempted sex trafficking of a minor after he used his position to gain access to the personal information…
Vermont made history last year when it enacted the country’s first climate superfund law. It’s designed to let the state recover money from fossil fuel companies to help pay the rising costs of climate change. If the law can survive intensifying legal challenges, that is. On Thursday, the Justice Department filed federal lawsuits against Vermont…
The Justice Department laid out its road map on Friday to break up Google’s advertising technology empire, which would be the second request to force the sale of pieces of its business within a year. The government’s comments came during a hearing convened by Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the…
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by…
In an unusual move, Mr. Bove insisted that the prosecutors appeal the ruling to a district court judge, these people said. After weighing the request, Judge John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York instructed the chief magistrate judge, Sarah Netburn, to reconsider the application, the people said. But…