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Blanche reiterates that “anti-weaponization” fund is “dead” at Senate confirmation hearing

Washington — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche reiterated on Wednesday that the Justice Department has no plans to launch a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund at the heart of a controversial settlement between President Trump and the IRS, even though language in the settlement agreement filed in a federal court has yet to be amended by…

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Fact-checking Trump speech on election security

CBS News is fact-checking President Trump’s speech on election security Thursday night, in which he raised new allegations regarding China’s access to U.S. voter data and claimed that the “deep state” in the U.S. intelligence community sought to “actively suppress and downplay” China’s actions. He also made accusations about voter registration fraud in the U.S. Here are some of…

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Probe of Alibaba unearthed evidence it knowingly let dangerous drugs be sold to U.S. consumers — but DOJ did not prosecute

For eight years, Chinese online retailer Alibaba and its U.S. payment processing company failed to prevent dangerous drugs, chemicals and pill presses from being sold to American customers — even after employees warned of compliance problems, public records show. Prosecutors at the Justice Department believed they had enough evidence to prove that the companies had…

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