Robert Leider, the chief counsel at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who has been overseeing a major overhaul of the agency’s firearms regulations, announced Friday he is stepping down from his role, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Leider was appointed as the ATF’s top attorney last year shortly…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aggressive and, what critics call, dangerous overhaul of the U.S. military continued this week. Top military strategist Lt. General Brett Sylvia was abruptly fired, accused of leaking classified information to the media. Charlie D’Agata reports. Source link
The Justice Department’s inspector general has declined to investigate allegations of misconduct against the prosecutors who brought an indictment against Olympian David Hearn that falsely accused him of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. In an Oct. 21 letter seen by CBS News, lawyers for Hearn revealed that DOJ’s Inspector General Don Berthiaume determined the allegations fell…
Washington — Nine former FBI employees sued the bureau on Thursday, saying they were unlawfully terminated merely for working on former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s retention of classified records after his first term in the White House. The former special agents, intelligence analysts and staff operation specialists worked on counterintelligence investigations…
Climate change pushed the Earth’s environmental system to, and perhaps beyond, its limits in 2026, as several of its “vital signs” reached record extremes, researchers said in a new report on the state of the global climate. Of the 16 climate markers that researchers consider integral measures of how the Earth is doing, seven are…
Austin — A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas will remain in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Dustin Howell said the case against Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, should proceed after…
Kurt Olsen, an election denier who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of President Trump, is resigning from his role in the “grand conspiracy” investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials, a Justice Department official said on Wednesday. Olsen announced his intention to depart from the case in an email on Monday to…
A U.S. Army unit asked to bulk up medical support weeks before a fatal Iranian strike on their command post in Kuwait, but they were ignored, soldiers told CBS News. Some of the survivors of the attack also said at least one soldier who was killed could have been saved if there had been more…
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a collective bargaining agreement with the agency’s union after the bureau’s director abruptly terminated the agreement over claims the union represented an “obstacle to progress.” Vernon Oliver, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, granted a motion for…
Three news organizations that President Trump abruptly banished from White House grounds this month asked a federal court to block the ban until the case against it is resolved, saying the administration has “persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently implementing its ban” despite a judge’s restraining order – including selectively barring CNN from White House pool…
