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Katherine Faulders

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Senior reporter covering investigations, Capitol Hill & politics for ABC News. DM for signal & kfaulders@protonmail.com

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
More great reporting by @kfaulders.bsky.social et al. abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-...
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Evidence appears to undercut claims against Letitia James, prosecutors found: Sources
Prosecutors who investigated NY AG Letitia James for mortgage fraud found evidence that would appear to undercut some of the allegations in her indictment, sources say.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Important new reporting from @kfaulders.bsky.social and her colleagues at ABC News. abcnews.go.com/US/prosecuto...
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Prosecutors' memo to new US attorney found no probable cause to charge James Comey: Sources
In a memo this week, prosecutors in Virginia recommended against potential plans by the new U.S. attorney there to charge ex-FBI Director James Comey, sources say.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Perhaps Halligan is not concerned about keeping her law license, but her new colleagues at the Justice Department sure seem to be. abcnews.go.com/US/prosecuto...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
NEWS - President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York AG Letitia James, sources tell ABC. Reporting w/ @alexmallin.bsky.social & Peter Charalambous
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
From ABC's @kfaulders.bsky.social :
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Jonathan Karl @jonathankarl.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
ABC EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. It’s to be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump library by January 2029. DOJ insists it’s legal, not bribery, not violation of emoluments clause. w/ @KFaulders abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
NEW - Trump eyeing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC. Reporting w/ @wsteaks.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/trump-eyi...
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Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC
President Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and ex-prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources say.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NEW - Judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador abcnews.go.com/US/judge-ord...
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Judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador in violation of a previous court settlement.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
North Korea hosted its annual international marathon on Sunday for the first time in six years. Nearly 200 runners entered under an exemption allowing them to enter a country that has been closed to most international tourism since the pandemic. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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North Korea hosts international marathon after six-year pause
Nearly 200 international amateur runners participated under an exemption allowing them into a country that has been closed to most tourism since the coronavirus pandemic.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW - The Trump administration is pulling back its enforcement of crypto regulations, disbanding a unit dedicated to cryptocurrency enforcement abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump admin tells prosecutors to ease up on crypto enforcement
The Trump administration is pulling back its enforcement of crypto regulations, disbanding a unit dedicated to cryptocurrency enforcement
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NEW -- A former law clerk to Judge Aileen Cannon -- who dismissed the classified documents case against Pres. Donald Trump -- is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche. W/ @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/former-cl...
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Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case now in senior DOJ position
A former law clerk to Aileen Cannon, the judge who dismissed Donald Trump's classified documents case, is now serving in the DOJ under Trump's former defense lawyer.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NEW -- A former law clerk to Judge Aileen Cannon -- who dismissed the classified documents case against Pres. Donald Trump -- is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche. W/ @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/former-cl...
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Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case now in senior DOJ position
A former law clerk to Aileen Cannon, the judge who dismissed Donald Trump's classified documents case, is now serving in the DOJ under Trump's former defense lawyer.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
DOJ also placed the deputy director of the office of immigration litigation, August Flentje, on paid administrative leave for "failure to supervise a subordinate," sources familiar with the matter said. bsky.app/profile/ivan...
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Ivan Pereira @ivanper4.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Sources said Erez Reuveni, the acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, was told by officials at the DOJ that he was being placed on leave over a "failure to zealously advocate" for the government's interests. via @kfaulders.bsky.social @alexmallin.bsky.social
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DOJ places attorney on leave after struggling in Maryland migrant case
The DOJ has placed on leave the attorney who argued on behalf of the U.S. in a lawsuit brought by a man who was deported to El Salvador in error, sources told ABC News.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Musk did not say how he came to know about the alleged planned arrest, but sources said he was referring to an ongoing federal investigation & said his public disclosure of it disturbed top law enforcement officials. W @wsteaks.bsky.social @alexmallin.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/kfau...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEWS - Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources. Story w/ @wsteaks.bsky.social & @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk...
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Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources
Elon Musk appeared to boast of advance knowledge of a planned arrest related to Social Security fraud, frustrating law enforcement officials, sources tell ABC News.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
DOJ pushes FBI to review, release more Epstein files amid mounting pressure from Trump supporters abcnews.go.com/US/doj-pushe...
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DOJ pushes FBI to review, release more Epstein files amid mounting pressure from Trump supporters: Sources
The DOJ is urgently reviewing materials from the FBI investigation into Jeffrey Epstein as Attorney General Pam Bondi pushes for the release of more files, sources say.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEWS -- White House orders halt to FBI background checks for dozens of top staffers, transfers process to Pentagon: Sources abcnews.go.com/Politics/whi...
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White House orders halt to FBI background checks for senior staff, transfers process to Pentagon: Sources
The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trump pardons convicted Tennessee lawmaker once represented by the White House counsel abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump pardons convicted Tennessee lawmaker once represented by the White House counsel
Trump pardons convicted Tennessee lawmaker once represented by the White House counsel.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW -- DOJ has put three federal prosecutors in Manhattan on leave, sources familiar with the matter tell me. Two of the prosecutors – Andrew Rohrbach and Celia Cohen – worked on the prosecution of NY Mayor Eric Adams.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will sit out President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress as the designated survivor, I’m told.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
AG Pam Bondi blindsided the White House when she handed out “Epstein Files” binders to MAGA influencers last week. Bondi told staff not to tell the White House, thinking the surprise would be well received, sources tell me @wsteaks.bsky.social @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/ag-bondi-...
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AG Bondi faces heat from White House, Trump allies over Epstein files release
AG Pam Bondi's decision to trumpet the release of Jeffrey Epstein files that contained little new information has ruffled feathers in the White House, sources say.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/02/2025
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota will not run for his state’s open Senate seat in 2026 and will instead begin the process to seek a third term as governor, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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Tim Walz Will Not Run for Minnesota’s Senate Seat
The Democrat, who rose from relative obscurity to be chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate last year, says he will instead explore a third term as governor.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, the man who had been sentenced to death in Oklahoma following a trial that was questioned by lawyers and advocates; lawmakers of both parties; independent reviews; and, eventually, the state’s Republican attorney general.
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SCOTUS orders new trial for man Oklahoma courts would have allowed to be executed
Richard Glossip has long proclaimed his innocence, and he was joined by the state's Republican attorney general fighting his conviction at the Supreme Court.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
At one point shortly after the Sat. evening email, sources said senior White House staff debated issuing guidance to their own employees, informing them that they did not need to reply to the Musk-endorsed OPM email. More Reporting w @wsteaks.bsky.social — abcnews.go.com/Politics/mus...
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Musk's whirlwind approach sparks rift in the White House and in Trump's orbit: Sources
Musk’s whirlwind approach since coming to Washington has sparked a rift among some in the White House and Trump’s inner circle, sources told ABC News.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Woodward was granted a security clearance by the Biden administration due to his representation of Nauta. bsky.app/profile/kfau...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Stanley Woodward, who represented Trump’s co-defendant & current White House aide Walt Nauta in Jack Smith's classified docs case was in the Oval Office when Trump issued a memo to strip Smith’s attorneys of their security clearances.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEWS -- After clashes with AG's top aide, a White House liaison pushing 'loyalty' to Trump at DOJ is reassigned: Sources abcnews.go.com/US/after-cla...
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After clashes with AG's top aide, a White House liaison pushing 'loyalty' to Trump at DOJ is reassigned: Sources
Efforts by a White House intermediary to push the DOJ to hire candidates with "exceptional loyalty" to Trump sparked clashes with AG Pam Bondi's top aide, sources say.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
NEW - President Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to sources familiar with the matter. A DOJ official says that Patel is expected to be sworn in as acting director early next week.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is gaggling with reporters at the White House right now. Lindell pushed false and unsubstantiated claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
DOJ moves to dismiss weapons charges against pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested after release from jail storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day abcnews.go.com/US/3-migrant...
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3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day
The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A federal judge in New York has summoned the Justice Department and lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams to a hearing Wednesday to discuss the motion to dismiss.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Chief Justice Roberts has ordered that a response to the government's emergency application in the Dellinger case be filed by 2 p.m. (ET) tomorrow. That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week. For much more background, see: www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...
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125. The Court's First Trump II Case Won't Be a Bellwether
The challenge to Trump's removal of the head of the Office of Special Counsel raises unique procedural and substantive issues likely to prevent it from serving as a referendum—in either direction.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Denying TRO to bar DOGE from Dept of Educ, Judge Moss delivers damaging ruling: "mere access" to data by "unauthorized personnel" without public dissemination does not establish irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Several former and current officials who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity have already began dubbing the episode the ‘Thursday Afternoon Massacre’ — likening it to one of the most transformative moments in DOJ history, the ‘Saturday Night Massacre' bsky.app/profile/kfau...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Fallout over DOJ’s move to drop the criminal corruption prosecution of NY Mayor Eric Adams continues to have ripple effects, resulting now in the resignations of at least 6 top DOJ officials who have refused to sign onto the case’s dismissal, sources tell me @alexmallin.bsky.social & Mike Levine.
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Beth Wilensky @bethwilensky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And here's Danielle Sassoon's full letter that sparked her resignation.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New - Acting DAG Emil Bove excoriates outgoing US attorney Daniel Sassoon in a letter accepting her resignation - accusing her of “insubordination” and outlining her multiple disagreements with DOJ in dropping the case against Mayor Adams. Pt. 1 of letter ⬇️
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEWS - As soon as DOJ's Public Integrity Section was informed it would be taking over Mayor Adams case, John Keller, the acting head of the unit and his boss, Kevin Driscoll, the senior most career official in DOJ's criminal division resigned, according to multiple sources. bsky.app/profile/kfau...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday as the acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It follows the Justice Department’s directive to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If you have a tip you can reach me anonymously here ⬇️
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
President Trump met with the American Airlines CEO this afternoon — the 1st in person meeting since the deadly collision in DC. Trump met w Transpo Sec Duffy & Robert Isom today & discussed "ways to make investments in a state-of-the-art air traffic system that enhances aviation safety," per a spox
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
NEW - The Trump administration has removed the acting head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division after the career prosecutor served in the position for less than a month, sources tell ABC abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...
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Trump administration removes acting head of DOJ's National Security Division: Sources
The Trump administration has removed the acting head of the DOJ's National Security Division after he served in the role for less than a month, sources say.
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Will Steakin @wsteaks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEW: Fallout from OMB federal funding freeze order has led to discussions about reassigning OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta away from his position, sources tell me and @kfaulders.bsky.social more: abcnews.go.com/US/omb-gener...
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OMB general counsel faces backlash following federal funding freeze order: Sources
Senior White House officials had not reviewed the Office of Management and Budget's sweeping order freezing federal grants and loans before it was issued, sources say.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The memo blasted to all federal workers tonight offering buyouts is titled "Fork in the Road” and instructs employees to simply reply "Resign" in the message body if they plan to accept the buyout.
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Within minutes of the White House freezing billions in federal grants and loans, a federal judge temporarily blocked the funding pause from taking effect -- issuing a "brief administrative stay" -- until Monday at 5PM.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New lawsuit alleges Trump admin is steering info on federal employees to person who works for Musk, not the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Judge bars Stewart Rhodes and several of his associates -- whose sentences were commuted by President Trump -- to not enter the U.S. Capitol or Washington, D.C. without first getting permission. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Katherine Faulders @kfaulders.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump advisers have discussed ousting independent watchdogs at several federal agencies: Sources. abcnews.go.com/US/after-rem...
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After removing veteran officials, new DOJ leadership tries to calm rattled national security team
Newly installed DOJ officials on Wednesday tried to ease concerns within the National Security Division after two of their top prosecutors were removed, sources said.
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