ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press. DEA agents repeatedly […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled confirmation hearings for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in mid-July, even as some Republicans remain undecided about whether to support him for the post. President Trump nominated Mr. Blanche to lead the Justice Department this month, shortly after Mr. Blanche sparred with Republican senators in a contentious meeting about […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched an aggressive counteroffensive against a federal investigation he calls a politically motivated “fishing expedition” – for a probe which was opened under the Biden adminisgration. In a video posted to X and a formal letter to the Department of Justice, Newsom demanded all internal communications since January 2025 that mention […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday said the Trump Administration had been targeting him as a “political enemy” through a baseless Department of Justice investigation. Newsom accused President Donald Trump of “coming after me because I am considering running for President.” Newsom said that family members, friends, and former employees had been approached in recent […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a decade of roiling South Carolina and national politics, Rep. Nancy Mace finished a distant fifth in her state’s Republican primary for governor, leaving an uncertain future for one of the nation’s unabashed politicians. Her campaign mirrored her whipsaw career. Mace courted the support of President Donald Trump after harshly […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told a mob of reporters he is “glad to be here voluntarily,” ahead of a private, transcribed interview with lawmakers about his yearslong relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The billionaire philanthropist arrived Wednesday on Capitol Hill and reported to a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room, where lawmakers were […]
President Trump on Monday formally nominated Todd Blanche to be the U.S. attorney general, setting up a Senate confirmation battle. Mr. Blanche, 51, has been serving as acting attorney general since Pam Bondi, the first person to hold the job in Mr. Trump’s second term, was fired in April. Mr. Trump signaled in recent days […]
President Trump announced Wednesday evening that he plans to nominate Todd Blanche, his onetime personal lawyer, to serve as attorney general. Blanche has been the acting head of the Justice Department since April 2, when Trump elevated him from his deputy attorney general post after firing Pam Bondi. White House deputy chief of staff Dan […]
President Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to elevate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Justice Department. In a video posted to social media on Wednesday by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, Mr. Trump said, “Tomorrow I’m instructing Dan and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process, […]
President Donald Trump announced at a closed-door event Wednesday evening that he will be nominating acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently fill the role left by Pam Bondi since her April resignation. Blanche, who represented the president during his 2024 hush-money trial in New York, has been serving as the acting attorney general since […]
