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Peter Carr, a longtime Justice Department spokesman, has been fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Carr told CBS News.

Carr did not say why he was terminated, but said it was the deputy attorney general who fired him. Carr was a career employee of the department's office of public affairs. In that role, he served as spokesman for special counsels Jack Smith and Robert Mueller. Smith brought two federal criminal cases against President Trump after the president's first term. And Mueller conducted a 22-month investigation into Russian...

Attorneys for Luigi Mangione asked a judge to stop federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against their client, saying the U.S. government "intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt."

The motion filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the death penalty to "carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again."

Mangione, 26, who faces state murder and terrorism charges in New York, along with federal murder and stalking charges...

An immigration judge in Louisiana is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with its effort to deport Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled that the U.S.' determination that Khalil poses "adverse foreign policy consequences" for the U.S. is "facially reasonable."

The judge gave Khalil's lawyers until April 23 to file applications for relief to stop his deportation to Syria or Algeria on this ground.

Comans is holding in abeyance the second deportation ground cited by the Trump...

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds will not seek re-election in 2026 after nearly 10 years serving in the state's highest office, teeing up what may be a competitive Republican gubernatorial primary in 2026.

In a video announcement released on Friday, Reynolds thanked Iowans for their support throughout her political career and said she will not campaign for another term as governor to focus on her family.

"Today, I want to share a personal decision with you; one that was not made lightly, but comes with a full heart and a deep sense of gratitude...

A Maryland federal judge lambasted government attorneys Friday during a hearing over efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident, from a prison in El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported to El Salvador last month for being an alleged MS-13 gang member. His attorneys, however, have maintained that he does not have any ties to the violent gang.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis questioned DOJ attorney Drew Ensign as to Abrego Garcia's whereabouts after the Supreme Court upheld Xinis' order that federal...

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making threats against President Donald Trump, other U.S. officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Shawn Monper, 32, lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the president was shot during a campaign rally last July.

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"I want to applaud the outstanding and courageous investigative work of the FBI and the Butler Township Police Department, who thankfully identified and apprehended this individual before...

Police say four armed and masked men abducted the pastor in his car on Thursday evening.

The US actor, who was also in Grey's Anatomy, has the most common form of motor neurone disease.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for people to get the measles vaccine while in the same breath falsely claiming it hasn’t been “safety tested” and its protection is short-lived.

Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist now overseeing federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had shied away from a full-throated endorsement of measles vaccinations, instead claiming the vaccine is the “most effective way” to prevent the virus’ spread.

In an...

The Biden administration engaged in a "cover-up" by failing to disclose details about the health of former president Joe Biden, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

"I can tell you there was certainly a lack of transparency from the former president, from the entire former administration," Leavitt told reporters Friday. "And frankly, a lot of people in this room, when it came to the health in the competence of the former President of the United States, Joe Biden – there was one of the greatest cover-ups and, frankly, political...

Police say four armed and masked men abducted the pastor in his car on Thursday evening.

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative nonprofit is warning Tennessee lawmakers about a hospital group it says is quietly pushing radical DEI policies — even as some of those lawmakers have taken the group’s donations.

As institutions begin aligning their policies with President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Consumer's Research Group, a nonprofit conservative consumer agency, sent a letter to several Tennessee Republican lawmakers urging them to cut ties with the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA)...

FIRST ON FOX: Republicans in Congress are launching a probe into a Biden-era green energy grant program that sent billions in funding to climate groups tied to Democrats and former President Joe Biden's allies.

GOP leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to the eight nonprofits awarded grants from the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), seeking answers to ensure the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed proper ethics and conflict of interest protocols in distributing the funds.

In February, the...

A Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged after he allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from a local trade association to fund both personal and political expenses.

Massachusetts state Rep. Christopher Flanagan, 37, was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records on Friday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Flanagan served as the executive officer of the Home Builders Association in Cape Cod and received a salary and benefits ranging from $65,800 to $81,600 from 2019 to...

"No state... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing," Mirjana Spoljaric tells the BBC.