Apple removed ICEBlock and other Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tracking apps from its store Thursday, citing law enforcement concerns about the “safety risks” the apps posed. The removal of the apps comes a week after a sniper opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas, killing two migrants and amid a wave of violent…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation’s top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show. The most sweeping…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has ordered a senior U.S. Justice Department official to drop an inquiry into a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit involving Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ed Martin Jr., who leads the Justice Department’s…
A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US Justice Department said on Friday. Wang Qingzhou, 37, principal executive of Amarvel Biotech, a company based in Wuhan, and Chen Yiyi, 33, the firm’s marketing manager, were convicted in New York in February…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge extended a block on a Trump administration attempt to deport Guatemalan unaccompanied children with active immigration cases, keeping the policy frozen until Tuesday to provide more time to consider the dispute. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, based in Washington, D.C., issued the ruling after a September 10 hearing where…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move that would all but certainly face immediate constitutional challenges if ever implemented. The discussions come in the wake of the shooting at…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division is digging into business practices at UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Under an ongoing probe into the company’s operations, the investigators are looking into its prescription management services and how it reimburses its own doctors,…
Trump officials seem to be making moves to ready FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for the exits. “[Bailey] has served as a distinguished state attorney general and is a decorated war veteran, bringing expertise and dedication to service,” Bondi said in a statement about the appointment. “His leadership and commitment to country will be a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday. A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group of federal agents…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge denied on Monday the Justice Department’s bid to unseal records from the grand jury that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges, writing that the records did not answer lingering questions from the public about their crimes or Epstein’s death….