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August 19, 2020

Health misinformation on Facebook viewed nearly 3.8B times in last year

Health misinformation spread by networks on Facebook has been viewed 3.8 billion times over the last year, a new study reported Wednesday.

August 19, 2020

Operation Legend: More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested, AG Barr announces

At least 217 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Justice Department launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday.

August 19, 2020

Roger Stone appeal officially dismissed by federal court

Roger Stone's criminal case is officially at an end, now that the former associate of President Trump dropped his appeal of his conviction.

August 19, 2020

Ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleads guilty in first criminal case arising from Durham probe

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

August 19, 2020

Operation Legend's federal charges by the numbers

Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday announced that Operation Legend has netted more than 200 federal charges since its launch in July 2020, in addition to separate homicide charges in some cases.

August 18, 2020

Sally Yates, top DOJ official fired by Trump, tells DNC president has ‘trampled the rule of law’

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said President Trump has "trampled the rule of law" and accused him of using the Department of Justice to wage personal vendettas during her Democratic National Convention address on Tuesday.

August 18, 2020

Gregg Jarrett: Trump didn’t collude with Russia to get elected, Senate panel belatedly concludes

It took the committee three years to figure out the obvious: there is “absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election.”

August 18, 2020

Senate Intel says FBI gave 'unjustified credence' to Steele dossier, Russia 'took advantage' of Trump transition team

The Senate Intelligence Committee found that the FBI gave the unverified anti-Trump dossier “unjustified credence,” and that Russia “took advantage” of members of the Trump transition team’s “relative inexperience in government” in its final report as part of its years-long bipartisan Russia investigation.

August 17, 2020

Former CIA officer arrested, charged with espionage, accused of sending top-secret info to China

Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested Friday, on charges that he conspired with a relative who also served in the CIA to send Top Secret classified information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). 

August 17, 2020

House Republicans demand answers on arrest of pro-life activists, cast as 'unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination'

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are demanding answers on the arrests of pro-life protesters in Washington, D.C., in what they are calling “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.”