Washington — The Trump administration pressured its career civil rights attorneys to investigate allegations of antisemitism at the university campuses of Harvard, Columbia and Brown even though there was no factual or legal basis to do so, according to a former Justice Department attorney. Haley Van Erem, a longtime lawyer at the Justice Department’s Civil…
Washington — The Justice Department is planning to deploy a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections, the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division said this week. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, made the announcement in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday….
Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday continued to block a Department of Homeland Security policy allowing immigration officers to conduct enforcement actions at certain houses of worship for Quakers, Cooperative Baptists and Sikhs. A unanimous panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit left in place a…
Kyiv – Ukraine launched more than 600 drones at Moscow overnight, the Russian capital’s mayor said Tuesday, calling it one of the largest long-range Ukrainian assaults on the Moscow region since the war began more than four and a half years ago. In an attack beginning Tuesday evening and continuing into Wednesday morning, 637 Ukrainian…
Washington — The Justice Department is scrapping its longtime practice of hiring outside experts to help review and rank competitive grant applications submitted by law enforcement offices, victim services groups and research institutions, a move that some fear could harm the integrity of the selection process and hinder efforts to ensure the money is well-spent,…
The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold spent four days without power last month after a problem with its engineering, according to a spokesperson for the Navy’s 7th Fleet. Commander Matthew Comer, the spokesperson, said there were no injuries to the crew. The loss of power impacted plumbing, meals, toilets and air conditioning aboard the ship. The…
Washington — The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to require nonprofits to disclose in their annual tax filings whether their top officials have been convicted of certain financial or terrorism-related crimes, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News. The IRS disclosure requirement would be added to the Form 990, the annual…
Washington — A former federal prosecutor who was fired earlier this year for her previous work on a case against activists accused of blocking an entrance to an abortion clinic sued the Justice Department on Monday, arguing her ouster was driven by unlawful political retaliation. Sunita Doddamani, previously an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern…
A trust company affiliated with the Trump family’s crypto business, World Liberty Financial, has received conditional approval to establish a bank. The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday granted preliminary approval to World Liberty Trust Company to establish a bank charter, a move that would allow it to issue…
London — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, POLITICO reported Monday, citing four anonymous officials. CBS News’ partner network BBC News said it had confirmed the exchange. Burnham, who became prime minister in July, exchanged a “few messages” that were “of no significance” with the…
