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January 6, 2021

Death row inmate Lisa Montgomery appeals to Trump to stop pending execution

With less than a week to go before her scheduled execution at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Jan. 12, attorneys for Lisa Montgomery are pleading with President Trump to agree to her clemency petition and save her life.

January 5, 2021

Epstein's final cellmate questioned by AG Barr after apparent suicide: report

The last inmate to occupy a cell with Jeffrey Epstein was personally questioned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr shortly after the disgraced financier’s apparent suicide, according to a report Monday.

January 2, 2021

Federal judge in Texas dismisses Gohmert suit aimed at overturning election

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.

January 1, 2021

Pence, House seek to dismiss Gohmert-GOP suit aimed at letting him overturn election

The House of Representatives asked a federal judge in Texas on Thursday to dismiss a Republican congressman’s lawsuit seeking to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to decide which electoral votes to count when Congress meets on Jan. 6 to finalize November’s presidential election.

January 1, 2021

Dick Thornburgh, ex-Pa. governor and US attorney general, dead at 88

Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88.

December 31, 2020

Who is Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row in the US?

The only woman on federal death row was set to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 12, but Lisa Montgomery, 52, got a brief reprieve when, on Christmas Eve, a federal court pushed the date back.

December 30, 2020

Biden trails Trump, Obama and Bush in dragging feet to name attorney general pick

President-elect Joe Biden has parted ways with years of presidential precedent by not yet having picked an attorney general as the election year comes to a close.

December 29, 2020

US 'ready' to try man convicted in Daniel Pearl's murder, acting AG Rosen says

A provisional court in Pakistan ordered Omar Sheikh’s release from prison last week.

December 29, 2020

Top federal prosecutor resigns following ballot fraud investigation

The U.S. attorney for Pennsylvania who made headlines in September for announcing an investigation into "discarded" ballots announced his resignation Tuesday.

December 29, 2020

How presidential pardons really work: an inside look at the factors that go into it

While many critics expressed outrage at Presideny Trump's pardoning decisions, the custom – as outlined in the Constitution and unique to the person who commands the highest office in the land – has long drawn staunch condemnation.