In a reversal of long-standing policy, the department said it would start to require body cameras when federal officers are executing search warrants or making pre-planned arrests.
Attorney Bruce Castor is best known for a "rambling" performance defending former President Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial. Now, Castor is representing people charged in the U.S. Capitol riot.
The Justice Department simultaneously distanced itself from the allegations Carroll has made that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The FBI managed to put a new encrypted device into drug smugglers' hands — and it became a hit. Authorities worldwide have now made more than 800 arrests and seized tons of cocaine and cannabis.
Shortly before 7 a.m., cars were seen driving through 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, though there are efforts underway to block the street again. Garbage carts and other debris were pushed back out onto the streets within minutes of the departure of city crews.
A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the violent attack, including a breakdown within multiple intelligence agencies and a lack of training and preparation for Capitol Police officers who were quickly overwhelmed by the rioters.
Officials have pleaded with tech giants to keep the documents off their sites, but Amazon briefly had blank vaccination cards for sale this week. They could land their bearers in prison.
A federal judge has sentenced the last of four men who pleaded guilty to burning a Minneapolis police station last summer. U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz sentenced 27-year-old Bryce Michael Williams to two years and five months in prison and ordered him to help pay $12 million in restitution for the damage.
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